Help, I (think) that I installed ubuntu over my windows 8 partitions

[sofian2]

Hello

First, sorry for my english, it isn't my mother tongue.

My problem is, I wanted to reinstall ubuntu (13.10) and I chose to do it over mine old 13.10 ubuntu because I had some problems.
Now I can't boot windows or find it in the boot menu. And ubuntu has all mine partitions of mine pc.
Could I recover windows? Or at least recover the files I had on windows?

Thank you!

[J_Me]

From a terminal run 'sudo fdisk -l' without the quotes and post back here the output

[sofian2]

sofian@sofian-HP-Pavilion-g6-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for sofian:

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd7f0f8f5

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1953525167 976762583+ ee GPT
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.

[sofian2]

This is what I got

[philinux]

This is what I got

If you search that error message it gives a few hits, one of which is this. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1952953

I'm still on old stuff with win 7 so I have no knowledge of this but someone else may be along to help.

I wouldnt do anything unitl you get some good advice.

[sofian2]

Ok, thanks!

[mastablasta]

boot form live ubuntu disk and run gparted. i htink you may need to install it first and then take a screenshot and post it here. that should show the partition layout. another option might be to run bootinfo script and then post the result here iusign code tags (#)

[sofian2]

Gparted screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/rICXvah.png

[Mark Phelps]

Could I recover windows? Or at least recover the files I had on windows?

The (former) Windows partition(s) is/are gone. You might be able to restore the former partitions if you download and burn a CD from the free Minitool Partition Wizard Boot CD ISO file. That is a Windows filesystem partitioning tool which might be able to recover the former partitions.