1 Topic by matth1j (edited by matth1j 2007-04-26 12:25:00)

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Topic: GParted not seeing Hitachi SATA drive

Hi- all in the title really, drive is Hitachi 250GB T7K500 HDT725025VLA380 SATAII. I'm using GParted LiveCD 0.3.4-6, which seems to boot up ok, but then only detects the DVD drive. HD is currently partitioned into 2, with one of approx 5Gb for the Windows swap file and everything else in the other.

Any help greatly appreciated.

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John (not a Linux expert)

Abit SG95 775 mboard, Celeron 356, no RAID, Windows XP Pro (want to install Ubuntu for dual-boot)

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Re: GParted not seeing Hitachi SATA drive

Just tried 0.3.4-8 - no joy sad

John

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Re: GParted not seeing Hitachi SATA drive

I found that there are issues with the SATA detection by Linux on this motherboard.

It seems that the BIOS setup offers some options about SATA: it can be detected by the OS as IDE drive or other options.
Can you try please if another option makes your SATA drive detected by both Gparted and windows?

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