Partitioner refuses to see my drive..

[Zigosity]

Hey there,

Trying to install 8.04 on my new machine, running a 300gig WD SATA Raptor drive. I have a 250gig NTFS windows XP partition already set up, and 50gigs of un-partitioned space for use with Ubuntu. During the installation, when I reach the partitioner, nothing comes up in the box, as if it's not detecting that my HDD is there, which is obviously a problem and I can't proceed with the install.

Is this a known issue with my drive? Or am I just doing something horribly wrong here...

[ibutho]

Hi. When you run the livecd, go to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal and enter

sudo fdisk -l
Post back the output.

[avtolle]

I'm going to suggest using all_generic_ide as a boot option when you boot from the Live CD. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions for general information on how you add this to the boot string.

[Zigosity]

fdisk doesn't return anything at all, which is very odd.

I'll try the boot option now, thanks.

[Zigosity]

The boot option fixed it, thanks =D.

[Licurgo]

Zigosity:
I suggest you to mark this post as Solved
Good luck into Ubuntu