jhawkkw

I've duel boot a Linux/Windows computer for years, and was trying to do it again. I ran into an issue with installing Windows 8 that required me to wipe my entire hard drive in order to install it. Now I'm trying to install Mint again. I've done the normal partition shrink and left it unformatted. Then when I boot up the disk to install Mint, it doesn't see my hard drive at all, only the usb stick that powers my wireless mouse/keyboard. Not like it doesn't see the empty space, it doesn't even see the windows partition in case I wanted to clear it. Anyone else ever see this before?

argedion

are you able to access the windows side? what happens when you use Gparted? try formatting the other side with ext4 and see what happens.

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saptech

Also try a different linux just to see what happens. You don't have to use it but format the empty space if it works. It could be a bad burn.

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Speed Daemon

The fumy part is that "duel" might not be a typo...

Most motherboards these days have three modes of serial disk operation: Legacy PATA (or IDE) mode, AHCI mode and RAID mode. Is it possible that the BIOS HD mode settings were changed at some point? I had that happen to me when I discovered that a PC had come from the factory in "IDE" mode. When I switched to AHCI mode it failed to boot Windows 7 because Windows 7 doesn't load the AHCI driver unless it was installed in AHCI mode.

You might want to check during the install process to see if the correct kernel modules for your hardware configuration are loaded. For example, modprobe should show achi somewhere in the list if you're in AHCI mode, and something with pata in it if in legacy mode, and md_something if in RAID mode. Exactly what varies with chipset.