No partitions showing up - unable to install

[peacechicken]

I tried to be nice and upgrade my friend's computer from 7 to 8.04 and somewhere in the process the upgrade never successfully finished. So I burned the 8.04 ISO onto a disc and tried doing a fresh install and everytime it gets to the Partitioning step I get stuck. No partitions are showing up, and the button to make a new one isn't clickable. So now she's totally stuck, aside from running off the CD.

I went into the BIOS settings and the IDE harddrive is recognized, and I also ran the "integrity check" via the install CD so I don't understand what the problem is, it doesn't seem to be hardware-related.

I've been Googling for a while and haven't found any solutions. Here's what I get when I run "df -h":


Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 506M 17M 490M 4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
tmpfs 506M 17M 490M 4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
varrun 506M 100K 506M 1% /var/run
varlock 506M 0 506M 0% /var/lock
udev 506M 36K 506M 1% /dev
devshm 506M 12K 506M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 506M 20K 506M 1% /tmp
gvfs-fuse-daemon 506M 35M 471M 7% /home/ubuntu/.gvfs

How do I get the partitioner to recognize the harddrive? Since that seems to be the problem, though I could be wrong...

[Pumalite]

Have you tried: 'Manual'?

[peacechicken]

Have you tried: 'Manual'?

I didn't see that option anywhere..?

[Pumalite]

Burn a new CD (I assume you are using the Live CD). Do md5sum. Burn at 4x or less on CD-R. Do not use CD-RW. Check CD integrity before install