Partition outside of disk and Invalid partition table

[Tom Elliott]

Use fdisk Sorry on cellphone and its autocorrect

[Clob]

[SIZE=2]Invalid [/SIZE]partition[SIZE=2] table on /dev/sda [/SIZE]

[SIZE=2]I tried again, used Gparted and even formatted the drive to NTFS and confirmed with FDISK. Same error.[/SIZE]

[Tom Elliott]

Look on threads I posted sorta how to on fdisk. It is in Spanish but the code base is the same.

[Tom Elliott]

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/tengo-problemas-con-un-hd-con-win8-i-have-a-problem-with-hd-win8.6470/#post-15965[/url]

[Tom Elliott]

The size of the image, itself, doesn’t matter. If you created the image off a system with a 500 GB drive, but try to put that image onto a drive that’s 320GB, the system will not be able to partion it, because, the Partition table (copied from the MBR) is outside the disk you’re trying to write it to.

[Clob]

Thanks for the replies.

So, what are my options to get this images on a PC? Is it possible to shrink it?

[Tom Elliott]

The best option is to create the master image on as small of a drive as you can find. Then upload that image.

[Clob]

That may not be an option.

There is no way of shrinking a fog image outside of imaging a machine, shrinking, and uploading again?

[Raff]

Download gparted live cd. Resize the partition. Then upload again.

[Clob]

I need to download the image first…

The source is no longer available and I need this image like now.

[Clob]

I’m able to get the image to write. Not sure how though. I did the same as before when I delete the partitions. I’ll be shrinking my volumes for now on.

Many thanks for the responses.

[Jaymes Driver]

I normally start with like an 80 gb (its hard to find anything smaller than that on the market anymore) and install my OS and updates from there. I was wondering how I would go about compressing an image if I ever needed to. I’m going to save some of this information, thanks for asking and finding the answers. In the future try an 80 gb starter image

[cameronmoniz]

If there are not important files on the hard drive, you can repartition it. During partitioning a hard disk, you can select partition table type, partition numbers, sizes, etc. After that, you’ll be able to get a valid partition table. If you do not try repartitioning, you can try rebuilding MBR using an installation disc. You can refer steps here to rebuild MBR manually:eassos.com/how-to/how-to-fix-invalid-partition-table.php