I have a Windows 7 (preinstalled) Dell desktop. I used the Windows Partition Manager to shrink the main partition by 400 GB. The tool froze before confirming completion, but when I re-executed it, everything looked as expected. I then rebooted the system three times to make sure Windows was feeling good about the smaller hard drive.
I then booted to the Ubuntu 13.10 Live CD to use the installer tool. I was greeted with the system acknowledging that an OS existed, so I selected to install alongside. Ubuntu produced an uniterpretable error that literally read: ???? ????. I clicked OK, and the install tool now only gives the option to erase disk or something else.
I decided to open GParted to get an idea of what was going on, and it continues to get hung up on Searching /dev/mapper/isw_ebffchhbhf_ARRAY partitions. When I run it from the command line I get the following error:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo gparted
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libparted : 2.3
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(gpartedbin:13899): glibm m-CRITICAL **:
unhandled exception (type Glib::Error) in signal handler:
domain: g_convert_error
code : 1
what : Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
Here is the output from sudo parted -l
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Error: /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label
Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/isw_ebffchhbhf_ARRAY3: 1570GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 1570GB 1570GB ntfs
Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/isw_ebffchhbhf_ARRAY2: 789MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 789MB 789MB ntfs
Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/isw_ebffchhbhf_ARRAY1: 41.1MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 41.1MB 41.1MB fat16
Model: Linux device-mapper (striped) (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/isw_ebffchhbhf_ARRAY: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 41.1MB 41.1MB primary fat16 diag
2 41.9MB 830MB 789MB primary ntfs boot
3 830MB 1571GB 1570GB primary ntfs
Model: USB Flash Memory (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdg: 8015MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 8015MB 8015MB primary fat32 boot
And the output of sudo blkid
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda: TYPE="isw_raid_member"
/dev/sdb: TYPE="isw_raid_member"
/dev/mapper/isw_ebffchhbhf_ARRAY1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="DellUtility" UUID="5450-4444" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/mapper/isw_ebffchhbhf_ARRAY2: LABEL="RECOVERY" UUID="2418BE8718BE578E" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/mapper/isw_ebffchhbhf_ARRAY3: LABEL="OS" UUID="EC94C46294C430BE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdg1: UUID="34C6-275A" TYPE="vfat"
Does anyone have any advice? Any idea what the issue is?
