Originally Posted by
hilbert24
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 19196 19457 2104483+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 7 5228 41945715 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 5229 19457 114294442+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 5229 9690 35840000 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 9691 10996 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 10997 13485 19992861 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 13486 13734 2000061 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9 13735 14979 10000431 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 14980 16473 12000523+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 16474 19195 21864433+ 83 Linux
Any idea whats going wrong?
Well, I don't really know what's going wrong, but here is one thing that caught my eye. The partition /dev/sda1 is named by the operating system as though it is a primary partition, but it occupies cylinders that are inside the extended partition (/dev/sda3). The partition numbers 1-4 are usually reserved for the four possible primary partitions. I have never seen a logical partition be assigned a number below 5 by the operating system (but that means nothing, of course).
Here are the partitions from your fdisk report rearranged by cylinder order. I added spaces to see the cylinders better. Cylinders 1-6 are apparently empty.
Code:
/dev/sda2 7 5228 41945715 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 5229 19457 114294442+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) <==The extended partition which
/dev/sda5 5229 9690 35840000 83 Linux contains all of the partitions
/dev/sda6 9691 10996 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS that follow next.
/dev/sda7 10997 13485 19992861 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 13486 13734 2000061 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9 13735 14979 10000431 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 14980 16473 12000523+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 16474 19195 21864433+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda1 * 19196 19457 2104483+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
See what I mean about /dev/sda1? Does it matter? I don't know. It's just different. Unusual. IMO.