Oh....partition magic may be able to straighten that out too. Don't know if the DOS version will see your drive but the windows install should be able too....
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Mark Bassett <zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah I meant Wubi. Try deleting them in windows since it sees all the > partitions and can probably manipulate them without issue. I'm guessing that > it was a windows install on that disk anyways to begin with. I've never seen > a partition table that cfdisk couldn't mangle back together so all I can > wish you really is luck. Hope you have a big external you can make images to > just in case..... =) > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:23 PM, BrianS <brians...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If you could tell me how to delete it, I would be more than willing to. >> The only thing on the hard drive that I do not want to lose is the >> recovery partition. As for the others, I have nothing on them that I >> want to keep that badly, and the recovery makes it easy for reinstalling >> windows. If you are talking about wubi, I would rather just not deal >> with windows except for when I need it for using visual studio for >> school assignments. >> >> -- >> Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278159 >> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >> of the bug. >> >> Status in Ubuntu: New >> >> Bug description: >> When I install the new beta and get to the manual partition editor it >> shoes my SATA drive as having no partition table. When I open the same >> partition in fdisk from the installer CD it shows the partition map. The >> chipset is the sis180 raid SATA controller (though I suspect the hardware >> driver is not at issue). It looks like there is just something in my >> partition table that the installer does not like. I tried rewriting the >> table from fdisk to no avail. It still refuses to show me the existing >> partitions in the installer. My drive is mapped like this: >> >> Primary Partition --> Windows XP >> Extended partition - >> >> 1. Ubuntu 8.04 >> 2. Swap >> >> Pretty basic..... >> >> I didn't see that anyone else was having this probem with Ibex and I >> specifically remember 8.04 seeing my windows partition when I installed last >> on this drive. Any help would be appreciated. Sorry for the lack of logs or >> screen shots as I don't have many good ways to capture from the installer >> CD. >> >> -zosX >> > > -- Intrepid Ibex installer does not recognize partition table on SATA drives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278159 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
