How do I delete a partition without going to Deeper Search?
Posted: 09 May 2013, 01:18
It's obvious from the initial search (Analyse) what's wrong with this partition table:
I just need to delete partitions 4 and X, which start at the same point as valid partitions and end at the end of the disk, thus overlapping my valid partitions that I want to keep.
My only options on this screen however, are Quick Search or Backup. Quick Search shows a completely different partition table in green. If I continue from there I get: Quit, Deeper Search, or Write. I want none of these. I want to delete these two partitions, then write. I've also tried doing the Deeper Search and leaving a D next to the problem partitions, but I couldn't write that table because it was invalid. There was no explanation as to what was invalid about it.
Thanks in advance.
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TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, April 2013
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/sda - 512 GB / 476 GiB - CHS 62260 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 P FAT32 LBA 0 32 33 4863 15 16 78123008 [boot]
2 P Linux 4863 47 49 9725 220 31 78118912
3 * Linux 9726 63 2 14588 235 47 78118912
4 E extended LBA 14589 0 1 62260 254 63 765850680
5 L Linux 14589 78 18 61287 233 2 750213120
X extended 61288 9 1 62260 88 20 15620177
6 L Linux Swap 61288 10 35 62260 88 20 15620080
My only options on this screen however, are Quick Search or Backup. Quick Search shows a completely different partition table in green. If I continue from there I get: Quit, Deeper Search, or Write. I want none of these. I want to delete these two partitions, then write. I've also tried doing the Deeper Search and leaving a D next to the problem partitions, but I couldn't write that table because it was invalid. There was no explanation as to what was invalid about it.
Thanks in advance.