I just read today about a bug in Ubuntu 9.x's GParted working with extended partitions. Can you try a current release of a rescue live CD? Should have any bugfixed Gparted, plus those updates regarding CHS limits. In case the whole disk got thrashed, some other rescue utilities--testdisk, whatever else--would be pretty handy ;)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Jim Philips <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:briarpatch.jim@gmail.com">briarpatch.jim@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font face="tahoma,sans-serif">I tried again to see if things would work for me the way they did for you. No luck. The newly freed space was listed as "unusable". I could neither format it nor set a mount point and if I tried to move forward, the installation complained there was no mount point.</font><div>
<font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">I also tried installing FC13. FC13's partitioning program never successfully shrank sda2, where Windows resides. It saw all partitions as 0 megabytes. I'm beginning to feel really screwed here.<br>
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