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#1 2010-07-03 10:15:23

crististaicu
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From: Timisoara
Registered: 2010-07-03
Posts: 1

Bad primary partition 3: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder.

Hello!

I am trying to install Arch linux and when i choose to manually create partition I receive the following error:

FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder.
Press any key to exit cfdisk

The output of the fdisk -l is:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xac4fac4f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1           1         992+  42  SFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2   *           1          13      102400   42  SFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3              13        7092    56858624   42  SFS
/dev/sda4            7092       19458    99327832   42  SFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 2021 MB, 2021654016 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1927 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x74eaf53e

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         659      674816   17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb1: 691 MB, 691011584 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 659 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x74eaf53e

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1p1   *           1         659      674816   17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS

I found an old topic(http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=33916) on this problem but the solution was

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

I would like to keep my partitions as they are. Somebody suggested using testdisk for Windows to repair the bad partitions but I'm not sure of how to use it. Can anybody help me please? Thank you!

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