Windows XP & 12.04 Reinstall Mess

[nibal]

I was doing what oldFred advised, see the post above yours.

Yeah. Sorry, I didn't see that and thought you were playing around with your partitions. Anyway, that is not your problem. Sure it
would be nice to sort your partition table, but not essential. fdisk reports "overlapping partitions", right? Well, this is not caused by
out of order partitions, but it could be caused by incorrect partition types.

@oldFred:
What do you say he changes the partition type of /dev/sda3 from 5 to f? At worst it will do nothing, at best it will fix the problem.

BR,
Nikos

[oldfred]

I thought reorder would do it.

But I thought t was the command to change type ( or its format code in partition table).

Download and run fixparts. Besure you have the backup table from sfdisk.
Fixparts - Repair broken partition tables (not overlapping issues) & delete Stray gpt data from MBR drives
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1705325
http://www.rodsbooks.com/fixparts/

[nibal]

@oldfred:

> But I thought t was the command to change type ( or its format code in partition table).

That's exactly what it is! The only overlapping partition, as reported by fdisk, is /dev/sda3, which in reality is the extended partition table.
I am not familiar with the Extended type, I only know the W95 Ext'd (LBA) type, and from the error it seems that neither fdisk understands it!
If fdisk doesn't understand it, then noway ubuntu can get it.

What do you say? It will only take a second, and NTFS partitions should not be affected, since they are below it. After that, he can fix
any order he wants.

@eddiedee:
A workaround, for reordering:
Since you don't have any data in your Linux, delete from fdisk in your live CD, both swap and linux partitions. Then create them again and they will
take the correct order.

HTH,
Nikos

[kuifje09]

[QUOTE=nibal;12558677]@eddiedee:

> /dev/sda3 1748727806 1953523711 102397953 5 Extended


However, its type seems wrong: Extended (5). Mine is W95 Ext'd (LBA) (f). That's why Ubuntu doesn't recognize your partitions, and fdisk reports overlapping ones.


Depends who created it. This one is the "linux" style, the other windows style. For linux it does not matter.

[eddiedee]

Well, thanks to you both.

Running FixParts, p then s did the trick. Booted into Grub upon restart.

Thanks!

[nibal]

Well, thanks to you both.

Running FixParts, p then s did the trick. Booted into Grub upon restart.

Thanks!

Could you please print the output of the final working fdisk?

TIA,
Nikos