BIOS recognizes HD, but Ubuntu doesn't recognize it as partition

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Published on 2010-05-25T20:38:53Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 20:42 UTC
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Hello,

I just stuck in a new 64 GB SSD (literally out of the box) into my Lenovo X61 laptop, replacing an old 5400 RPM 80 GB drive. When I boot the system, my motherboard successfully sees the SATA hard drive.

Now I want to install Ubuntu on it. I stick it in the CD drive, bootup the system, and it gets to step 4 (choose partition), but sees no available partitions. Do I need to do something to the hard drive before installing Ubuntu?

Many thanks.

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