How did I end up with a partition inside a partition?
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I used to have Vista installed, but wanted to upgrade to 7. I partitioned my drive, installed 7 on the new partition then copied all my data over from the Vista partition. Then, I went to remove the Vista partition, but now my system won't boot. I used Gparted but it seems like I somehow have a par…
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I think you have a logical partition inside an extended partition. That is indicated by 'sda5` (a number greater than 4; max primary partitions). Some references, What is the difference between “extended” partition and “logical” partition at unix.St…
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