vinod gullu wrote:
I am having Mandrake 10.1 and Windows XP installed on
My Laptop. Now I want to switch over to Fedora Core.
But when i am trying to install Fedora: AT the disk
partitioning step a warning message appears (both with
manual partitioning as well as with automatic
partitioning):
" The partition table on device hda was unreadable.
To create new partition it must be initialized,
causing the loss of all data on this drive."
after pressing "NO" Next message comes:
"No valid devices were found on which create to new
filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause
of this problem"
My disk partitions are as follows:
Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 654 5253233+ 12 Compaq Diagnostics
/dev/hda2 * 4480 6391 15358140 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 655 7296 53351865 f W95 EXT'd(LBA)
/dev/hda5 655 785 1052226 82 Linux Swap
/dev/hda6 786 1422 5116671 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 1423 4479 24555321 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 6392 7296 5116671 83 Linux
You have illegal, overlapping partitions. Your second primary
partition, /dev/hda2, is in the middle of your extended partition,
/dev/hda3. I don't know how you managed to persuade a partitioning
tool to create that structure, but you will have to correct that
problem before Disk Druid will accept your partition table as
valid.
There is no clean way to do that without physically moving
partitions. There is a somewhat ugly solution of re-defining
hda3 to be from cyl 655 to 4479, re-create hda5, hda6, and hda7
in their existijg locations, and create a new primary partition
hda4 from cyl 6392 to cyl 7296 to replace the current hda8.
The ugly parts are that the partitions will not be in disk order
(I'm not certain that Disk Druid will accept that), and if
you want to preserve the contents of the current hda8 you'll
have to play some games in fdisk's "expert" mode to adjust the
start of data for the new hda4.
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