Kali Linux can't see my windows partitions!
Maybe the disk has a hybrid partition table (both MBR and GPT) with both parts not in sync.
You could have a look at the second sector of the disk and (after a backup) overwrite it with zeros:
dd if=/dev/sda skip=512 bs=1 count=16 | command od -t c -t x1
backup with
dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/whatever/sector1.dd skip=1 count=1
overwrite with
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda seek=1 count=1
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HBasiri
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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HBasiri over 1 year
I'm trying to install Kali Linux alongside with my Windows 8.1 using live USB , but I can't because Kali is unable to see my partitions and unallocated space in my disk which I prepared 50GB unallocated space to install Kali in there.
Kali just let me to install on all disk and doesn't show any partition or unallocated space so I can install there! Help please.
OS: Windows 8.1 (64)
Disk style: MBR
My partitions(5): C,D,E,F,G
Disk size: 250 GBI even created
ext4
partition withMinitool Partiotion Wizard
but still Kali wasn't able to see it! When i runfdisk -l
command on kali terminal I can see partitions but even GParted can't detect partitions.
I created bootable USB disk for Kali using Universal-USB-Installer app and everything is working fine in Live mode.
Update: These are screenshots I took:-
Admin about 9 yearsIs it have some option to configure your disks manual?
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Admin about 9 yearsxmm, did you try with other distro?
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Admin about 9 yearsNo!And unfortunately this is my first experience with Linux :D But i installed Kali on VMWare before but there wasn't any problem like this one.
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Admin about 9 yearsDon't give up. I don't known from what is your problem that's why I told you to test with other disro or Live USB. If you don't have problem then, it means the problem is in Kali.
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Admin about 9 yearsCan you add output from
fdisk -l
or another partitioner? Even a screen shot from the Windows Disk Manager (diskmgmt.msc
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Admin about 9 years@peterph: I took screenshots and updated the question hope it helps find problem.sorry for links!
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HBasiri about 9 yearsBefore i go further can you look at my disk info i created from
Disk Editor
software.(XML file) mediafire.com/download/ht9k6wvc0j1hn1s/hddinfo_default.xml -
peterph about 9 yearsIt doesn't look like a hybrid PT scheme - there is a logical partition, and hybrid scheme doesn't allow that (iirc).
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HBasiri about 9 years@peterph: So what should i do??
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Hauke Laging about 9 years@peterph I have read that, too. Doesn't make sense to me, though. However: In this case the GPT would be wrong anyway so that wouldn't be an argument.
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peterph about 9 years@HBS try another distribution as ValeriRangelov suggested. It really seems like a bug in Kali.
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Julie Pelletier over 7 yearsOP's problem was solved 18 months ago.
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Oskar Skog about 4 yearsHow could that even screw up the partition table?