GParted detects entire disk as UNALLOCATED SPACE + hd0 out of disk
- by msPeachy
Good day to everyone. I hope someone can help me with my problem.
I have a dual boot Windows and Ubuntu system.
I recently encountered an hd0 out of disk error and wasn't able to boot Ubuntu. So I booted into Windows. After 2 to 3 times of booting and rebooting Windows, I tried booting Ubuntu again but still I get the same hd0 out of disk error.
I decided to run Ubuntu from LIVEUSB to try to fix my Ubuntu partition using GParted, but when I run GParted, it shows my entire disk as UNALLOCATED SPACE!
The strange thing is that Nautilus still shows and mounts my partitions. Also every time I boot into Windows , my partitions exists and I am able to read and write to them.
I have no idea what is wrong. Please help! I can't stand using Windows since most of the tools I use are in Ubuntu. I don't mind reinstalling Ubuntu. In fact I already tried reinstalling using the LIVEUSB but since GParted or the Ubuntu installer itself does not recognize my partitions and shows the entire disk as unallocated space, I decided not to continue.
I am currently running Ubuntu from LIVEUSB. Here's the outpuf of sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 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: 0xb30ab30a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 104869887 52433920 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 104869888 105074687 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 105074688 156149759 25537536 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 156151800 625153409 234500805 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 156151808 169156591 6502392 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 169158656 294991871 62916608 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda7 294993920 471037944 88022012+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda8 471041928 625121152 77039612+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
When I run, sudo parted -l, I got this error message:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted -l
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
UPDATE
I think I might know the problem. The total sectors of sda is 625142448 but the extended partition (sda4) ends at 625153409.
Now, my question is, how do I fix this or modify the extended partition (sda4) to matched the total number of sectors?
Anyone, please???
UPDATE
I was able to fix the unallocated space issue with the help of Rod Smith's tool called fixparts
I am now able to view my partitions via GParted in LiveUSB. But the error: hd0 out of disk. Press any key to continue... still persists on reboot. I still can't boot into Ubuntu.
Can someone help me please???