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Thread: gparted unallocation partition

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hi,

have laptop 1 hard drive , several partitions , windows vista , linux installed. going upgrade linux errors made impossible reinstall it. live cd not detect partitions , gparted sees 1 big unallocated space, , prints message
code:
can't have overlapping partitions.
here result of sudo fdisk -lu, don't know how read it...

code:
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu    disk /dev/sda: 250.1 gb, 250059350016 bytes  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors  units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes  sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes  i/o size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes  disk identifier: 0x68000000       device boot      start         end      blocks   id  system  /dev/sda1   *   483153920   488394751     2620416    c  w95 fat32 (lba)  /dev/sda2          258048    21229567    10485760    7  hpfs/ntfs/exfat  /dev/sda3   *    21229568   138417067    58593750    7  hpfs/ntfs/exfat  /dev/sda4       138432166   488394751   174981293    f  w95 ext'd (lba)  /dev/sda5       483153920   488394751     2620416   dd  unknown  /dev/sda6       138432168   154047284     7807558+  82  linux swap / solaris  /dev/sda7       154047348   349365554    97659103+   b  w95 fat32  /dev/sda8       349365618   427489649    39062016   83  linux  /dev/sda9       427489713   483138809    27824548+  83  linux    partition table entries not in disk order    disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 gb, 250059350016 bytes  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors  units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes  sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes  i/o size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes  disk identifier: 0xcfff9bdf       device boot      start         end      blocks   id  system  /dev/sdb1              63   488392064   244196001    7  hpfs/ntfs/exfat
can me ? don't know do, don't have external disk space save data, saved /home. i'd overwrite or format sda8 / , maybe sda9 (/home) don't want touch sda3 (windows) or sda7 (my data).

suggestions helpful, in advance,
cheers,
sonia



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