Red October
June 26th, 2009, 09:23 PM
Hi there
First of all my sincere apologies if this duplicates an existing thread. I've looked at the forums and can't find a case that matches mine (i guess everyone is subtly different).
Anyway, i already have Win XP installed and wanted to install Ubuntu 9.04 alongside so i can dual-boot.
Minor issue. Although i know my pc has two 160GB hard-drives, windows sees c: as 296GB, so it appears that both hard-drives are viewed as one logical drive.
Main issue. When attempting the install i get to 'prepare disk space' screen and it says 'This computer has no operating systems on it'. The 'use the entire disk' option has two items in the drop-down - SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 160.0GB ATA Maxtor 6L160M0
and SCSI3 (0,0,0) (sda) - 160.0GB ATA Maxtor 6L160M0
After reading through some of the other postings i did sudo fdisk -l and this gave the following output
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7 56196 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 8 38436 308680942+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 38437 38903 3751177+ db CP/M / CTOS / ...
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
Since i'm expecting the 'prepare disk space' screen to show me the Windows partition or at least some data already used i'm a bit nervous of continuing as i don't know what to expect.
I've got a Win XP OS backup and have backed up other critical data but i was hoping that i wouldn't be needing this.
Any advice that anyone can provide about how to carry on with the install would be most appreciated.
Thanks, RO.
First of all my sincere apologies if this duplicates an existing thread. I've looked at the forums and can't find a case that matches mine (i guess everyone is subtly different).
Anyway, i already have Win XP installed and wanted to install Ubuntu 9.04 alongside so i can dual-boot.
Minor issue. Although i know my pc has two 160GB hard-drives, windows sees c: as 296GB, so it appears that both hard-drives are viewed as one logical drive.
Main issue. When attempting the install i get to 'prepare disk space' screen and it says 'This computer has no operating systems on it'. The 'use the entire disk' option has two items in the drop-down - SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 160.0GB ATA Maxtor 6L160M0
and SCSI3 (0,0,0) (sda) - 160.0GB ATA Maxtor 6L160M0
After reading through some of the other postings i did sudo fdisk -l and this gave the following output
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7 56196 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 8 38436 308680942+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 38437 38903 3751177+ db CP/M / CTOS / ...
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
Since i'm expecting the 'prepare disk space' screen to show me the Windows partition or at least some data already used i'm a bit nervous of continuing as i don't know what to expect.
I've got a Win XP OS backup and have backed up other critical data but i was hoping that i wouldn't be needing this.
Any advice that anyone can provide about how to carry on with the install would be most appreciated.
Thanks, RO.