I have tried to install Ubuntu alongside my windows 8 but when I run the installer, in my bootable flash the installer does not recognize my windows partitions. It shows my hard drive as one unallocated 500GB. I researched and someone had a similar problem and he was instructed to run the following command sudo fdisk -lu
inside the Ubuntu installer. From his output he was told that some of drives are overlapping. I have run the same command in my installer and this is my output:
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x55f36f79
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 718847 358400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 718848 103118847 51200000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 103118848 185038847 40960000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 185038848 976771071 395866112 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 185040896 976771071 395865088 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
I have used this same Ubuntu installer on my friends machine and it works well. I have even tried to install mint from a DVD and i get the same problem.
When I run the command above in both installers I get the same output.
When I run another command sudo gparted -l
i get the following output.
Warning: /dev/sda contains GPT signatures
indicating that it has a GPT table. However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it should. Perhaps it was corrupted -- possibly by a program that doesn't understand GPT partition tables. Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are now using an msdos partition table. Is this a GPT partition table? Yes/No?