the fault appears to be caused by my hitachi external 2tb drive.as soon as i powered off the drive gparted is working normally again. if this drive is running when the system boots it reports bad secor size (i have tried formating this drive in different filesystem's but it seems not to cure the problem. grub also reports this whenever i run update-grub : merlin@gallahad:~$ sudo update-grub Generating grub configuration file ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-23-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-23-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-22-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-22-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-3-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-3-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf. ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf. ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf. ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf. ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf. ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf. ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf. grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem. done merlin@gallahad:~$
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