j.biddy
February 11th, 2011, 01:20 AM
I have been running flavors of Ubuntu on my desktop for some time now which has been amazing and I love every bit of it. Like many PC users I miss some games that are unplayable in Ubuntu so I'm trying to add an XP install to dual boot too. I have a 200 GB ATA hard drive (currently a dynamic windows disk) with data on half the disk that I wish to add a partition too. Apparently GParted can't deal with Windows Dynamic disks so I got an error from the program. I did a little research and found the program TestDisk which can backup data and rewrite the partition structure, which I tried to do.
The plan was to change it to a basic disk and then resize with GParted. However, when I open GParted it sees the entire disk as unallocated space even though I can view all the contents that were previously on the disk if I mount it explore in a file manager. I'm scared to touch it in GParted for fear of messing up the disk something fierce.
Any direction that could be provided is much appreciated.
EDIT: I thought I would add some output from an fdisk command. I'm guessing that my partition is trying to extend beyond the physical drive, which I'm pretty sure I can fix with fdisk but am not quite sure how.
biddy@biddy-lorde-box:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb -l -u
Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf08964c0
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 390732929 195366433+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
The plan was to change it to a basic disk and then resize with GParted. However, when I open GParted it sees the entire disk as unallocated space even though I can view all the contents that were previously on the disk if I mount it explore in a file manager. I'm scared to touch it in GParted for fear of messing up the disk something fierce.
Any direction that could be provided is much appreciated.
EDIT: I thought I would add some output from an fdisk command. I'm guessing that my partition is trying to extend beyond the physical drive, which I'm pretty sure I can fix with fdisk but am not quite sure how.
biddy@biddy-lorde-box:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb -l -u
Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf08964c0
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 390732929 195366433+ 7 HPFS/NTFS