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Ferrenrock

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Registered: 2008-11-22

Posts: 36

[SOLVED] Partition "outside of disk"

I got a new hard drive, with the intention of having an Arch Linux/Windows 7 dualboot. Somewhere along the line when I made all the partitions before installing anything, I screwed up the partition table, and now when I try to use cfdisk or parted it says "Can't have partition outside the disk!" GParted gives me the same problem. I've only installed Windows 7, and it boots fine, but I can't make any new partitions because of this stupid error.

I really don't give a damn about any of the data outside of the Windows partition at the moment, which only takes up the first 197 GB of the 1 TB disk. Is there a way to just clear out these other partitions giving me trouble? Can I dd zero it or will that make things worse?

EDIT: (solution) I fixed the problem by using fdisk instead of cfdisk or parted/gparted. In fdisk, I deleted the problematic partitions, then wrote a new partition table to the disk. I accomplished this by using d and w commands in fdisk. If you are reading this and would like to rescue the partitions while keeping this data instead, refer to http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.p … 38943.html

Last edited by Ferrenrock (2010-12-09 19:20:32)

singral

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Registered: 2009-09-21

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] Partition "outside of disk"

delete the non windows partitions before trying to make new partition, you most likely have used all disk space already.
Then make new linux partitions from unsigned space