Re: Gparted confusion...(or just - I want my disk space
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Another thing that makes no sense to me is he appears to have no primary partition (sda1). Presumably that's where windows used to be? Therefore the start of the extended partition at 4193?
@ lokkii Does gparted show any FAT32 or NTFS partitions?
If you have data on windows you wish to keep,
I would pop this drive into another computer as a secondary and try to recover files from it using something like Recuva http://www.recuva.com/ or Roadkil's Undelete or Unstopable copier http://www.roadkil.net/listing.php?Category=1 some other recovery utility before I did anything else to this drive. It may be too late already. Then I'd use gparted to delete all partitions and start over.
Alternatively you can build a rescue cd http://ubcd4win.com/ with another computer and use these tools to copy files to a thumb drive if they still exist.
Or you could possibly access the files with the live kubuntu cd and copy them to a thumb drive. Does the live cd see any windows partition?
)Another thing that makes no sense to me is he appears to have no primary partition (sda1). Presumably that's where windows used to be? Therefore the start of the extended partition at 4193?
@ lokkii Does gparted show any FAT32 or NTFS partitions?
If you have data on windows you wish to keep,
disk space which is taken by windows seems to be lost, which is a big problem
Alternatively you can build a rescue cd http://ubcd4win.com/ with another computer and use these tools to copy files to a thumb drive if they still exist.
Or you could possibly access the files with the live kubuntu cd and copy them to a thumb drive. Does the live cd see any windows partition?
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