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#1 2010-06-23 20:13:56
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GParted will not recognize any partitions on /dev/sda
Hello forum. Usually I don't consult anyone but Google and the wiki for help, but I'm stumped this time. My issue is that I am completely unable (as far as I know) to edit partitions on my Laptop's internal hard drive. I can still mount and use the partitions, but I cant change them. I first noticed this when I ran GParted yesterday and saw that it recognized my entire hard drive as empty. When I went to look at my external drive to see if GParted was the issue, Gparted recognized every partition on that drive. I've tried other partitioning programs such as fdisk and cfdisk, but they return the error: "cannot open disk" or "cannot open /dev/sda". This has happened before, but I had to result to wiping the drive and beginning a new, which I don't mind besides the fact that I just got this arch system running the way I'd like it to run. Does anyone know what is happening and how I might be able to fix it?
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#2 2010-06-23 21:09:10
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Re: GParted will not recognize any partitions on /dev/sda
What if you boot from the gparted live cd? Same error?
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#3 2010-06-23 21:29:08
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Re: GParted will not recognize any partitions on /dev/sda
Yes, tried that earlier. Same result. 
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#4 2010-06-23 22:40:54
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Re: GParted will not recognize any partitions on /dev/sda
Never seen that before, sorry. Any chance you can dump all the data to another HDD, reformat/partition and dump it back?
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#5 2010-06-23 22:57:10
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Re: GParted will not recognize any partitions on /dev/sda
Sounds like a mighty fancy process. One problem: I've got a Windows Vista installation. Is there a way to copy that over, or does it have a way of knowing if it's been moved. I assume it would, to prevent against Piracy. Same with Arch. Not sure if I'm thinking of something incorrectly, but could I just copy the entire thing over, or would I have to do a new install?
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#6 2010-06-24 09:09:04
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Re: GParted will not recognize any partitions on /dev/sda
Tree,
You can clone a Window$ ntfs partition with:
ntfsclone - Efficiently clone, image, restore or rescue an NTFS
It' s in ntfsprogs.
Do a man ntfsclone
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