hardisk problem while installing kali linux with windows 8

sumeet5 · May 10, 2014

i have formatted my complete hardisk of my laptop i,e, dell inspiron 3521R config: 6gb ram, i5 3rd gen, 750gb hdd, 2gb graphics
then i installed windows 8 in 400gb partition and it creates 350 mb partition for system file.
and complete windows 8 installation
Now i try to install kali linux
i open the live installation to format remaining hard drive partition in ext4 type and to create swap for linux
but when i open gparted it was showing 688gb unallocated
it is showing some gpt type warning
anyone can help me please help me

qazzi · May 10, 2014

could you please post what gpt error your getting or at least screen shot. because a have done dual booting windows 8 and kali linux never had a problem...

sumeet5 · May 10, 2014

i am not able to save screenshot under live configuration
this is detail error
/dev/sda contains GPT signatures, indicating that it has a GPT table. however, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it should. Perhaps it was corrupted -- possibly by a program that doesn't understand GPT partition tables. Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are now using an msdos partition table. Is this a GPT partition table?
YES NO

sumeet5 · May 10, 2014

IN GPARTED HDD SHOWS unallocated size 698.64GiB
and in file system partitions are shown ie 429 GB file system AND system reserved(windows 8) cd/dvd drive generic USB 2.0-CRW and File system

qazzi · May 11, 2014

I run into this problem awhile back but not under kali it was some other distro. read here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/393845/ubuntu-gparted-doesnt-detect-windows-partition

sumeet5 · May 11, 2014

i am not able to understand solution from there can you elaborate it step by step for me

qazzi · May 11, 2014

hhhmmm "I didn't use fixparts. While booted from ubuntu, i decided to lose all my data on hard drive since i had that backed up to an external hard drive. So i repartitioned the drive with gparted. There were stray GPT entries. Created a ntfs partition for windows, ext4 for ubuntu and a linux swap. Installed windows and then ubuntu. Solved!"

basically use kali live cd then repartition the the drive, instead of one big partition, partition one with NTFS for windows and ext4 for linux and it's swap file.

sumeet5 · May 23, 2014

Thankyou
I had used GNU parted, in shell prompt i type "parted" (without "") it ask me for further option and give me gpt warning i press yes
then it removes gpt signatures and format my whole harddrive

again i install windows8(you must not install it in uefi mode)
i creates 4 partition 1)System Reserved(automatically created) 2)win8{400gb} 3) Linux swap{18gb} 4) kali linux
after installation of win8 i install kali linux and they are working very much fine

albertpesto · May 31, 2014

Installing Kali Linux along with Windows 8 gave me problems too....so I installed it on VirtualBox and it worked perfectly... you can read about installing and configuring Kali linux on http://www.knotrick.com/preparing-hacker-pc-installing-kali-linux-on-virtualbox/

sumeet5 · Jun 1, 2014

i am out of that problem and start to be expertise in kali linux if you wanna too be a expertise then follow what i do to install in your main system

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