Originally Posted by
QIII
What do you have installed right at this moment? Still both?
Could you run the following in the terminal and post back the results
That is an "ell" not a "one".
fdisk is a utility for finding out a number of things about the fixed drives. But it is possible for someone to give you bad commands, so be careful. Cut and paste the code to be sure you get it right.
What this command will do is list the partition table with file system type and show some size information.
For more information, type
in the terminal
If I had both installed, I wouldn't have made a thread asking how to achieve that, would I? Currently I have Windows installed on the hard drive and am running Ubuntu from a live disc. Regardless, the output of fdisk:
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders, total 1250263728 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: 0x0299fa60
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 209717247 104755200 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
GPT is the same thing that Windows was complaining about. What's strange is that I used GParted to create the partition table! I've tried many times to make something with GParted that can accommodate Windows, but Windows (and Linux too, apparently) has always reported that the partition table is GPT and thus Windows could not be installed.
Originally Posted by
Nasair
Have you tried booting in the Ubuntu live thingy (technical term) and formatted the drive (not partition) to be a MBR with the disc utility? Or if not, what type is it?
Also, you said 640 GB...what kind of drive is this? Specific as possible please.
Magnetic disc, 5200 rpm. I'm afraid that I can't be any more specific because Asus does not provide the full specifications to their products in a manner easily accessible from their website.
As for reformatting the disc, what sort of utility would I use? Everything on Google points to fdisk, but I can't find a way to actually format a disc using that. The closest I could do is try to rewrite the partition table, but that didn't seem to actually do anything:
Code:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Command (m for help): o
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x7a97c9cd.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
[ ... same as before ]
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