I've Windows 8.1 & I'm planning to install Kali Linux with it.
However, at installation gparted
shows the whole hard disk to be unallocated and a warning.
The warning is as follows:
/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?
gdisk
can read my partitions from the mbr
but not from the gpt
.
Here is what is shows:
root@kali:~# sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5
Partition table scan:
MBR: MBR only
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use?
1 - MBR
2 - GPT
3 - Create blank GPT
Your answer: 1
Disk /dev/sda: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): ED648B30-B2CA-4C17-875F-3BB5BE8015E5
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 205600109 sectors (98.0 GiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 2050047 1000.0 MiB 0700 Microsoft basic data
2 2582528 4630527 1000.0 MiB 0700 Microsoft basic data
5 4892672 982384639 466.1 GiB 0700 Microsoft basic data
6 982386688 1748723711 365.4 GiB 0700 Microsoft basic data
root@kali:~# sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5
Partition table scan:
MBR: MBR only
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use?
1 - MBR
2 - GPT
3 - Create blank GPT
Your answer: 2
Using GPT and creating fresh protective MBR.
Disk /dev/sda: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): F2A030D1-94C2-4592-9DFA-D227C1615693
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 1953525101 sectors (931.5 GiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
PS : I've tried using gdisk's option f -"load MBR and build fresh GPT"
from the "recovery/transformation options
".
However, it was of no use as gparted
shows the same thing.