gparted and ubuntu installation does not detect my hard correctly

[I&U]

It obviously thinks there is a partition outside the disk, although according to sfdisk doesn't seem so.

You can try what parted shows from live mode, and also fixparts:

sudo parted -l

www.rodsbooks.com/fixparts/

sudo parted -l
reported this:
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!

****** AND

sudo fixparts /dev/sda
reported this:

MBR command (? for help): p

** NOTE: Partition numbers do NOT indicate final primary/logical status,
** unlike in most MBR partitioning tools!

** Extended partitions are not displayed, but will be generated as required.

Disk size is 976771055 sectors (465.8 GiB)
MBR disk identifier: 0x33043303
MBR partitions:

Can Be Can Be
Number Boot Start Sector End Sector Status Logical Primary Code
1 * 63 102398309 primary Y Y 0x07
5 102398373 307194929 logical Y Y 0x07
6 307194993 501581429 logical Y 0x07
7 501581493 697783274 logical Y 0x07
8 697785400 900000000 logical Y Y 0x83

[jmore9]

You should try to download the gparted live cd and burn it to a cd and use that. I use it all the time on windows and linux machines.

[darkod]

Sometimes all it needs is to rewrite the same table again. The fixparts output looks fine, if you select 'w' to write the table as it is, it should be fine.

But before doing that it's always a good advice to make a full backup of your system and data, just in case.

[I&U]

Sometimes all it needs is to rewrite the same table again. The fixparts output looks fine, if you select 'w' to write the table as it is, it should be fine.

But before doing that it's always a good advice to make a full backup of your system and data, just in case.

thanks, really thank u
It worked ...

I rewrote the partition table on itself,
now I can see my hdd with partitions corrctly as it is in the ubuntu installation.

[carl4926]

thanks, really thank u
It worked ...

I rewrote the partition table on itself,
now I can see my hdd with partitions corrctly as it is in the ubuntu installation.

Still looks like something the Dog dumped though

Show us a screen of what you see in Gparted now

[I&U]

Still looks like something the Dog dumped though

Show us a screen of what you see in Gparted now

I took a screenshot of my ubuntu installlation page.
thanks again

[carl4926]

So maybe you plan to delete sda8 and then create:

swap 2GB or thereabouts
ext4 to use all the remainder for /