Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gparted
Hardware: Toshiba M30 Laptop Please describe the problem: When installing ubuntu dapper, I used the gparted 0.1 to try to resize my partitions as the default setup for the laptop from the restore CD. After resizing the 80g NTFS partition into 40gig NTFS + 38gig EXT3 + 2gig swap, the partition table showed as corrupted with one 80gig partition in black, and two 0 size partitions also marked in black. This only appears to be a resize issue, creating partitions apperars to work fine. Steps to reproduce: 1. Backup all data (you'll lose it) 2. Reinstall XP from restore CD 3. After configured, start installing ubuntu or similar 4. Run gparted, try to resize drives. 5. I hope you backed up Actual results: Partition table is corrupted, laptop won't boot. All data lost (tho manual recovery may be possible) ... and the terrorists win. Expected results: NTFS partition to be resized and the other partitions created correctly. Does this happen every time? Yes, although wiping the partitions and starting over with a blank partition table seems to work ok. Other information: Due to everyone else having no problems, I'd figure this is a hardware/bios specific issue, but due to the nature of it (and the fact that I lost everything on my laptop, which was backed-up as reminded to by jdub) it is incredibly important that this model laptop be excluded from using the tool to resize ntfs partitions until resolved! Filed dupe on gnome bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343757 ** Affects: gparted (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal Priority: (none set) Status: Unconfirmed -- Partition table destroyed when resizing NTFS https://launchpad.net/bugs/48229 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
