Cannot locate hard drives

**Daimanta** · June 30th, 2008

I was trying to install 7.04 on my Medion computer currently running Vista. So I boot up a seperate gparted liveCD but it doesn't recognise any hard drive. I have a Seagate disk but the gparted liveCD didn't recognise it. I tried to fdisk -l but it failed. fdisk /dev/hda -l fails to do anything. fdisk /dev/hdb -l shows an empty harddisk(which is nonsense). I tried another version of gparted and also the 7.04 liveCD but to no avail. What is going on? Can this be solved? I assume the burned CDs are sane since they work on other PCs.

**Licurgo** · July 2nd, 2008

Daimanta:
Run the live CD or DVD
Go to: Applications-Accessories-Terminal
Type: fdisk -l
Post the output

**Daimanta** · July 2nd, 2008

Originally Posted by Licurgo

Daimanta:
Run the live CD or DVD
Go to: Applications-Accessories-Terminal
Type: fdisk -l
Post the output

That's the problem. There is NO output. If I fdisk all the possible devices individually I get:

Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512)

Disk /dev/hdb: 89 MB 89038848 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 2048 = 32901120 bytes

Disk /dev/hdb doesn't contain a valid partition table.

That's the only disk that will work. And yes, I sudo everything.
And for the record, I do not have a 89 MB AFAIK.

**Daimanta** · July 2nd, 2008

I hope my hardwarespecs help: (lshw)

http://www.vanderkaap.org/hardware.html

**confused57** · July 2nd, 2008

Maybe the last post in this thread will help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...highlight=AHCI

**Daimanta** · July 2nd, 2008

Originally Posted by confused57

Maybe the last post in this thread will help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...highlight=AHCI

Well, apparently it's the old kernel of the older CD. The 7.04 CD and the gparted liveCDs all use old kernels that fail to recognize my hard disk. The new CD does not have that problem. Thanks for trying to help anyway

**ashleycameron** · July 2nd, 2008

I had same problem while loading new version of 7. But i just restarted my system now it is working fine..

**Licurgo** · July 2nd, 2008

Daimanta:
It's strange that you had no output, but if you solved the problem with the 8.04 version its all right
Anyway, you can ask if a new challenge appears