Ubuntu installer thinks my drive is empty, does not see windows paritions.
- by John
Hello,
I am trying to install Ubuntu10.10 64bit. I just installed Windows 7 64bit moments ago. My drive is currently partitioned like so:
100MB Boot partition (automatically made by windows 7 installer)
390GB Windows partition
~1.6TB free space
When I go through the Ubuntu installer it does not give me the option to install alongside another operating system. My only options are to use the entire disk or to specify partitions manually. When I chose to specify partitions manually it tells me that the drive is all free space!
Windows is still booting and behaving normally, and I had not doing anything in Windows yet (had simply installed, booted for first time, then immediately restarted). I am even able to mount the windows partition within Ubuntu Live CD, and see it in the disk viewer (not gparted). Gparted in Ubuntu Live CD again reports no partitions, all free space.
Not sure what to do :S. I have installed Windows7 alongside Ubuntu countless times, even Ubuntu 10.10.
Thank you very much for your help :).