Arch disk check keeps spitting out strange error's after installing BT

Hey guys,
Basically earlier today i figured i wanted to try out backtrack 4 but I could only have a maximum of 4 partitions on an hd at a time.
So i deleted my partition that contained my arch home directory (didn't really have any data on it and i figured i could just make a new one later) to create an extended partition to put backtrack on. Well all went well except now when I select arch instead of backtrack i get a disk check error.
This is the first part of the error, I can't exactly copy and paste it as its on my laptop.
: : Checking Filesystems [BUSY] /dev/sda3: clean, 104461/480496 files, 1258440/1921775 blocks
/dev/sda1: clean, 30/26208 files, 16687/104420 blocks
Could this be a zero-length partition?
************FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED*************
* Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root *
* file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount *
* it read-write type: mount -n -o remount,rw / *
* When you exit the maintenance shell the system will *
* reboot automatically.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):_
So i type in my password and run fsck and this is what i get.
$fsck
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.1
e2fsck 1.41.11
/dev/sda3: clean, 104461/480496 files, 1258440/1921775 blocks
e2fsck 1.41.11
/dev/sda1: clean, 30/26208 files, 16687/104420 blocks
e2fsck 1.41.11
fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda4
Could this be a zero-length partition?
And that about it.
Pleaseee help I'm guessing it has to do something with the missing home directory but i really do not have any clue as to what is going on.

okay so I've done some digging and it seems my fdisk is extremely "discombobulated" theres abunch of random characters everywere and its not readble until you get down to about the last 25 lines.
Also sda4 is an extended partition.
I don't know how that would help but I'm trying

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