GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 343757
Destroys partition table on Toshiba M30 laptop when resizing NTFS
Last modified: 2006-06-04 06:31:02 UTC
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 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!
jdub (or other trustworthy NSW, AU gnomer around newcastle/sydney) can borrow my laptop if needed for testing. On second thoughts, there's a slim chance it's related to another issue I have, but I don't know. If I resolve the other issue I'll try to confirm.
Duplicate of bug 327685?
well, i cannot say for certain it's a duplicate of that bug, but i do know gparted-0.1 had quite some problems with (mainly ntfs) resizing. All this is fixed in later versions (from 0.2), which ubuntu dapper doesn't use. I'm very sorry about all this, but i cannot force ubuntu to use certain versions of gparted ;-) About your data, if you didn't do anything rigorous afterwards, there's a big chance your data is still intact :) please have a look at gpart (http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart) which seems to be quite usefull in datarecovery. good luck!