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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: 0xac4fac4fDevice 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 SFSDisk /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: 0x74eaf53eDevice Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 659 674816 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFSDisk /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: 0x74eaf53eDevice 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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