Ubuntu 14.04 installer doesn't detect my partitions

[oldfred]

The errors from sudo gparted are more from using sudo instead of gksudo. But that is not your main issue.

Not sure why if drive is now fully MBR(msdos) that neither fdisk nor gdisk see it. If MBR I would not use gdisk.

What does this show, anything?
sudo parted -l

And does this output anything into the text file?
sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sda > PTsda.txt

[Josiah_Kane]

Every machine's bios settings are different so it's very hard to say; but most have a few options to detail how the drives are set up, things like RAID and IDE vs AHCI, or even which drives are masters and slaves, and any of those could thoroughly confuse matters. I think it's one of those situation where Linux respects its elders/behaves itself/gets its configuration from the BIOS while Windows completely ignores settings if it doesn't think they make sense.
I can't be much more specific without sitting in front of the machine. Sorry.

[Roland_Batovski]

oldfred,
Ran the commands you told me about. This is the result:

http://gyazo.com/d3c6ad19591411120cb9c53290a5cf0c

Sounds like either Linux can't read the MBR (which seems weird) or something is wrong with my HDD (which is unlikely, seeing as I'm perfectly running Windows on it and encountered no problems so far).


Josiah,
I also looked in my BIOS and the only thing I could find related to what you were saying is that my SATA is set up as AHCI, the other option was ATA.

Cheers!

[oldfred]

You can copy & paste terminal output directly in your post. If longer use code tags. Easy to add code tags with advanced editor and # in edit panel.

Almost always AHCI works better, but a few exceptions.

Seems to be a hard drive issue and I have seen it before, but not seen a solution.

What does Disks(14.04) or Disk Utility(12.04) show? Anything?
And what does testdisk show?

You can try this also:
Even if raid not used BIOS may have set parameters, Also check BIOS settings
sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sda
sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sdb
Run chkdsk on any NTFS partitions even if they currently work.
Most of reasons for installer not showing Windows, any partition type error
http://www.rodsbooks.com/missing-parts/index.html

[Roland_Batovski]

The reason I'm posting pictures ( like a caveman :3 ) is because, for some reason, after 1 or 2 minutes in Ubuntu Live, my USB Keyboard, Laptop Keyboard, USB Mouse and Touchpad stop responding and I can't do anything about it. Therefore I'm booting back and forth to take pictures and then post them from Windows.

Here are the results:

http://gyazo.com/d34f67694b0a5088c3233a323bb843ec
http://gyazo.com/d34f67694b0a5088c3233a323bb843ec
http://gyazo.com/94032072449c112304ac584762ea2ea6
http://gyazo.com/43cc4f635ffb1bd99dc24b64eaae4fef

I couldn't find anything called "testdisk". Not sure what you're referring to. "sudo apt-get install testdisk" didn't work either :-/

I ran CHKDSK on my entire hard drive and it was all fine

[oldfred]

Your first two screen shots are of your CD/DVD, you want those of device /dev/sda.

Did you run the remove RAID commands?

Testdisk is in repositories, but you may have to turn on universal?

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
repairs including testdisk info & links
http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p21.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Da...Lost_Partition

[Roland_Batovski]

Sorry about that...

http://gyazo.com/79ba8415d6131e1168a1893a9305e405

here you are

The dmraid commands just gave Input/output error as seen in the last two links