Anyone got a handle on this?
Windows dynamic disks is the term for there equivalent to LVM (some one want tot tell me why LVM here?)
anyway the Windows7 version is apparently messier than normal.
Also the SFS you see in the fdisk output stands for ‘secure file system’ but fdisk sees windows dynamic disks as SFS.
Hope that offers some clues to the windows ‘dynamic disk’ mess
To clarify you need to convert from ‘dynamic disks’ to basic (or normal)
Once you have your ‘basic disks’ set up use a linux partitioning tool
to set up your linux partitions on an extended primary (come back here to help set that up)then install openSUSE…
The link I gave in post 39 is faulty so heredual boot with windows 7 - openSUSE Forums
Absence of logic:
-give us “fdisk”
-take it. what u see?
-em… nothing…
one problem:
“Select Backup first, then Proceed. Backing up first is a good idea if you later want to restore the drive’s partition structure.”
How to non-destructively convert dynamic disks to basic disks « My PKB
it’s impossible to do Backup, 700Gb of information! I need 1.5 Tb hard disk)
On Thu, 06 May 2010 04:26:02 +0000, rupunk wrote:
> it’s impossible to do Backup, 700Gb of information! I need 1.5 Tb hard
Note that you don’t need to have the same amount of space if you employ
compression - for example, if you were to create a tar file and zip it
with bzip2, you probably would get away with much less space for the
backup (unless the files are already compressed).
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Absence of logic:
-give us “fdisk”
-take it. what u see?
-em… nothing…
I see 3 primary partitions with a file system referred to as SFS and only a comment about linux
What I don’t see is an extended primary,so naturally I see no logical partitions with linux.
None of this lines up with what you are telling us, Do you see a problem here?
My suggestion? TestDisk. Your call !!
last questions(my english not great, sorry):
1.(as i understood) i need to run TestDisk - 4 times (cos i got 4 ntfs “disks”)?
2. for example run TestDisk for first partition, i can back up it on other 3 partitions?
and make this focus 4 times?
3. Finally i will have again 4 primary partitions? but “basic” primary partitions, so will never have 5th partition for linux.Again back up and etc for making extended partitions
1.(as i understood) i need to run TestDisk - 4 times (cos i got 4 ntfs “disks”)?
No, you have one disk windows is calling the partitions on that disk ‘dynamic disks’.
- for example run TestDisk for first partition, i can back up it on other 3 partitions?
and make this focus 4 times?
No, save to a separate location. To a different disk.
- Finally i will have again 4 primary partitions? but “basic” primary partitions, so will never have 5th partition for linux.Again back up and etc for making extended partitions
If you end up with 4 primary ‘basic’ partitions installing linux is still simple but first,
Boot from a liveCD (Parted Magic) from the main menu run TestDisk
choose [create] a log file
choose your disk and proceed
[intel] as partition type
then [analyse]
answer Yes tosearch further
choose [deeper search]
write down the details of the partitions found
choose [quit]
Post the log file (at a minimum post the details I asked to be writen down).
This will tell us what can be done and won’t make any changes.
Your real problem is not partitioning, It’s NO BACKUP!
there is no point!No [analyse]! he asked backup or quiet
Internet doesn’t work with these liveCD, so i can’t copypaste the result. I’l try Gparted. will write soon.
To be honest If you can’t get as far as [analyze] and you really do have important data that is not backed up, Buy a backup solution first.
Note that I previously asked you to use the same tool to revert your previous partitioning attempts back to your original setup ,can you do this and try again? I think Gparted is the only place you made actual changes from.
also note that reading the first post on the first link that I gave you may help to get an idea of the differences of what happen there and here