Hello all, I am attempting to dual boot windows 8 and a linux distro and I fear I may have obfuscated a hdd partition. I ran a bash to find out how my drive partitions are looking:
I'm not understanding what the problem is. Are my windows partitions correct? Does windows need a dedicated EFI boot partition like linux does?
I appreciate any help
Code:
Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012]
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.
sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /boot/bcd
sda2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sda3: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sda4: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /bootmgr /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda5: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed: mount: /dev/sda5 already mounted or sda5 busy
sda6: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sda7: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:
============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1,465,149,167 1,465,149,167 ee GPT
GUID Partition Table detected.
Partition Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors System
/dev/sda1 2,048 2,099,199 2,097,152 Windows Recovery Environment (Windows)
/dev/sda2 763,449,344 764,448,767 999,424 EFI System partition
/dev/sda3 2,304,000 2,566,143 262,144 Microsoft Reserved Partition (Windows)
/dev/sda4 2,566,144 763,449,343 760,883,200 Data partition (Windows/Linux)
/dev/sda5 764,448,768 1,432,551,423 668,102,656 Data partition (Windows/Linux)
/dev/sda6 1,432,551,424 1,448,179,711 15,628,288 Swap partition (Linux)
/dev/sda7 1,448,179,712 1,465,147,391 16,967,680 Windows Recovery Environment (Windows)
Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sdb: 32.0 GB, 32015679488 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3892 cylinders, total 62530624 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sdb1 32 62,530,623 62,530,592 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
"blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/sda1 0020C65520C65178 ntfs System
/dev/sda2 25BA-5E1F vfat
/dev/sda3 A8D6C931D6C90094 ntfs
/dev/sda4 F20CCB7E0CCB3C7B ntfs TI10675800F
/dev/sda5 335bf987-7fd6-43ef-8464-5410086cc7e8 ext4
/dev/sda6 f6154198-9105-4a0f-b49f-be2f5d57648f swap
/dev/sda7 B20844190843DACD ntfs Recovery
/dev/sdb1 C801-14E2 vfat
================================ Mount points: =================================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/disk/by-uuid/335bf987-7fd6-43ef-8464-5410086cc7e8 / ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/sda2 /boot/efi vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sdb1 /media/usb vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
I'm not understanding what the problem is. Are my windows partitions correct? Does windows need a dedicated EFI boot partition like linux does?
I appreciate any help