Linux Mint HDD detection problem

almichev · 31 Jul 2008 at 11:35

Hi all. Am trying to install the new Mint version (first time I've tried with Linux) onto a sperate hard drive to XP. The 2nd hard drive is detected in the bios of my Gigabyte EP43 DS3L - but not in XP or when I come to the partitioning stage for installing Mint. I have 2 Western Digital Caviar 320Gb drives - 16mb cache.

Any help very much appreciated.

almichev · 31 Jul 2008 at 13:36

It shows no disks. It doesn't show much of anything except alternative fdisk options - have tried those with no joy.

almichev · 31 Jul 2008 at 13:52

Yep, am typing a lower case L. The only drive that shows up in Mint is the CD/DVD drive, no XP drive.

almichev · 31 Jul 2008 at 15:40

Dj_Jestar said:
Your harddrive is not detected in XP, or in Mint?

Both. The bios detects it, and I had the option to install XP onto either of my two hard drives. So I installed XP onto one, which is fine. But in XP the ohter HD isn't shown, and Linux shows neither.

almichev · 31 Jul 2008 at 16:26

Dj_Jestar said:
jumper settings should also be checked

also post the output of:

Code:

dmesg | grep -i -P "(hd|sd)+"

I tried that and it comes up with "i" as being invalid.

If the hard drive is detected in the bios then it must be connected ok??

almichev · 31 Jul 2008 at 16:26

Or should one be a master and the other slave?

almichev · 31 Jul 2008 at 16:57

Una, shall i just type "dmesg"? If I post everything it displays i'll break the forum i reckon ;-)

You're helping a total linux noob btw.

almichev · 31 Jul 2008 at 17:10

Will split it in half. It's over 25000 characters.

almichev · 31 Jul 2008 at 17:11

almichev · 31 Jul 2008 at 17:12

almichev · 31 Jul 2008 at 17:25

Una said:
If you look in adminstrator tools > computer management > disk management .. see if the disk shows up in there. It should do just show as unknown/no partitions depending on how you (not?) formatted it.I recon its not plugged in correctly, jumper settings as above.

Suddenly it's appeared in disk management. If I partition it then all might be ok.

almichev · 1 Aug 2008 at 10:26

Thanks for all the replies. All ok now and have installed Pardus instead of Mint.