[novice] I wrecked my partition table.
- From: gruebait <unreal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:49:54 +0100 (CET)
Greetings.
I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 (Turion64, 60 GB HD, 1GB RAM).
My data is backed up.
After updating the BIOS I tried to re-install Ubuntu 7.10
(AMD 64), thinking it might help with some issues I'd had with
it. Bad Idea. When the Live CD installer got to the
partitioning step, I screwed up badly.
partition table (Original Ubuntu 7.10 'guided' installation):
size used flag
---- ---- -----
/dev/sda1 fat16 70.57MB 8.03MB
/dev/sda2 ntfs 23.29GB 10.87GB
/dev/sda4 extended 29.17GB --- boot
/dev/sda5 ext3 25.72GB 2.50GB
/dev/sda7 ext3 2.04GB 2.04GB boot
/dev/sda8 linux-swap 164.70MB ---
/dev/sda6 linux-swap 1.25GB ---
/dev/sda3 fat32 7.84MB
After screwing it up: (gparted on Live CD)
size used flag
---- ---- -----
/dev/sda1 fat16 70.57MB 8.03MB
/dev/sda2 ntfs 23.29GB 10.88GB boot
/dev/sda4 extended 29.17GB ---
/dev/sda5 ext3 25.56GB 2.50GB
--unallocated ---- 23.17GB
/dev/sda7 ext3 2.04GB 2.04GB
/dev/sda8 linux-swap 164.70MB ---
/dev/sda6 linux-swap 1.25GB ---
/dev/sda3 fat32 3.36MB 2.80GB
--unallocated ---- 7.84MB
Grub still works, and XP seems OK.
Having done enough damage, I am just thankful the XP
installation is okay (I need it as-is for work).
I want to reinstall Ubuntu using the ~1/2 of the drive it
was on.
I really, really don't want to screw up XP. Could some
kind soul walk me through the (baby) steps to fix this? I'm
assuming gparted is sufficient for the task, but I don't trust
me at this point :(
--
Gruebait
Exactly forty-two angels can dance on the head of a pin.
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