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October 5th, 2012, 12:30 PM
Here's the situation. I was dual booting win7 and ubuntu 10.04. I only use windows for games and because of win7's overhead I figured some games would run smoother under xp so I installed xp over it. I figured since I was reinstalling windows I should also reinstall ubuntu and bring it up to it's most current LTS, 12.04.1 While booting from the livecd and trying to install it, gparted suddenly shows my entire sda as unallocated and gives the warning: "can't have overlapping partitions". Running fdisk -l gives this output:
omitting empty partition (5)
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1549f232
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 31871 256003776 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 31872 60801 232380163 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 60547 60801 2046976 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5 31872 34421 20480225+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 34421 60546 209850368 83 Linux
I'm not very good with reading sectors, let alone knowing how to manually adjust them so would anyone be able to tell me what could be overlapping? Or if that's not the problem could anyone tell me what is? I'm currently running ubuntu 10.04 from /dev/sda5(file system partition) and /dev/sda6(home partition) and I'm honestly baffled by this hole situation so any insight or solutions would be great.
omitting empty partition (5)
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1549f232
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 31871 256003776 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 31872 60801 232380163 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 60547 60801 2046976 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5 31872 34421 20480225+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 34421 60546 209850368 83 Linux
I'm not very good with reading sectors, let alone knowing how to manually adjust them so would anyone be able to tell me what could be overlapping? Or if that's not the problem could anyone tell me what is? I'm currently running ubuntu 10.04 from /dev/sda5(file system partition) and /dev/sda6(home partition) and I'm honestly baffled by this hole situation so any insight or solutions would be great.