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scpatl4now
February 25th, 2011, 11:24 PM
I have a drive partitioned with 3 partitions and I want to install 10.10 on the 3rd partition. I have partitioned and formatted the drive, but when I try to install from the Live CD, the drive does not show up. It is attached to a SIL PCI0680 ultra ATA-133 Host controller. I can see it in the disk utility, but not when I go to install. Is there something I need to download before I start the install???

oldfred
February 26th, 2011, 01:01 AM
If Disk Utility sees it, I would think the driver for it is there. Sometimes other partition issues prevent gparted from seeing a drive.

What does this show?

sudo fdisk -lu

I had a drive that booted XP ok but gparted would not see it. I ran chkdsk on the drive and then it worked in gparted.

scpatl4now
February 26th, 2011, 03:20 AM
gparted DOES see it. I am able to partition it as well. Its just when I start the installer and try to manually chose the partition to install to, the disk does not show up on the list