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hypermegachi

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Registered: 2004-07-25

Posts: 311

Bad primary partition 1: Partion ends in the final partial cylinder

i just got a new laptop, dell inspiron 6400.

it's partition table is set up this way:
1) a 55 meg partition which is supposedly the dell boot utility
2) a 10 gig recovery partition that contains the completely original HD
3) a 81 gig partition which has Vista on it
4) a 2 gig partition for MediaDirect

i used dd to backup the 10 gig partition, and was about to install arch.  cfdisk crapped out with the error message:
"FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder"

ok...i'm stuck.  gparted is able to go in and see all the partitions as fine, and it can delete partition 2, but if i try to format a new volume, it craps out.

now here's the kicker.  if i go into vista and into computer management, i can go there, format the 10gig to ntfs and it works fine.

any ideas?  thanks.

Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 642

Re: Bad primary partition 1: Partion ends in the final partial cylinder

I have a very similar problem with cfdisk on my MSI MegaBook GX600P-208NL. I was about to install Arch64 but due to fatal error mentioned above I was not able to proceed. Any ideas?

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Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 642

Re: Bad primary partition 1: Partion ends in the final partial cylinder

Does anyone know what else could be done than what is described here???

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kjon

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From: Temuco, Chile

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 398

Re: Bad primary partition 1: Partion ends in the final partial cylinder

try cfdisk -z /dev/device. However, this will wipe all your partitions.

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