On 11/10/2012 07:26 AM, Jack Chastain wrote:
I pulled my USB-based disk off the system and tried the Ubuntu disk again - This time, the install sees only my SECOND disk (E: in Windows - never worked out why it isn't D, but it isn't C: - which I think is where I want things, yes? - that would be sda. I am seeing sdb) I did NOT continue.
Windows (at least up through XP) *must* be installed on the first disk, as far as I know. As for your system showing the second HDD as "E:"; I'm presuming it was added after XP had been installed. XP will hard-code drive letters, but that can be changed under ControlPanel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Disk Management. Just change the CD/DVD to a different letter, change the HDD to D:, then change the CD/DVD to E:.
Of course, that still doesn't answer the problem of Ubuntu not seeing the first drive. If you boot with something like PartedMagic, does that see your drives appropriately? And if it does, you could use that to shrink the XP "C:" partition, then see if the Ubuntu installer sees the disk correctly.
I expect there's a way to see in XP's Device Manager if it sees the first HDD as something other than IDE/ATA, SCSI, etc. Don't have a working *physical* install of XP. Just a thought of how to troubleshoot the hardware. Perhaps one of the drives is set to "cable select" rather than "master" or "slave", and that is confusing Ubuntu' detection.
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