sudo sfdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 38913 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 0+ 29174 29175- 234348156 5 Extended /dev/hda2 1386+ 29174 27789- 223215111 83 Linux /dev/hda3 * 29175 38911 9737 78212452+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/hda5 0+ 157 158- 1269040+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 158+ 529 372- 2988058+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 530+ 772 243- 1951866 83 Linux /dev/hda8 773+ 1385 613- 4923891 83 Linux ------------------------------------------------------------------ (testdisk output) Disk /dev/hda - 320 GB / 298 GiB - CHS 38913 255 63 Current partition structure: Partition Start End Size in sectors 1 E extended 0 1 1 29174 254 63 468696312 2 P Linux 1386 1 1 29174 254 63 446430222 3 * HPFS - NTFS 29175 0 1 38911 254 63 156424905 Space conflict between the following two partitions 1 E extended 0 1 1 29174 254 63 468696312 2 P Linux 1386 1 1 29174 254 63 446430222