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nnamdi
October 20th, 2015, 07:38 PM
Good Evening Everyone

when i try to install ubutu or linuxmint on my system(dell optilex 780) and the hard disk size is 1tb. it does not see my hard disk dont know why and i chaned some many hdd even tried installing via cd and usb still same issue, but i run gparted on my system using the live cd and usb installation kit i can see and mount the hard disk, format to any file system too. i was able to crop an image of the error message when i click the add button.

thank you in advance

nnamdi
October 26th, 2015, 08:46 AM
hello everyone

i was able to solve the issue with the command below


sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sda

this is my source http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=200416


thank you

nnamdi