SATA HARD DRIVE solved

[kentuckylodge]

I have tried installing both Cassandra and the new version. I get to the point where partitioning is shown. Manual only is highlighted. When I click forward I am presented with a blank page.

I think there may be a problem with the HD which is a WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 and brand new and able to install Windows, but not any of the Linux OS.

I have checked the web site for WD and they appear not to support Linux. Do I have to change this new 500gb HD to be able to use Linux Mint, which I dont really want to do or is there a way that I can get this HD to work with Linux Mint.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Husse]

Welcome to Mint kentuckylodge
Is that a USB disk?
That may cause problems but not the drive itself, unless it's really "odd". I could envisage problems with solid state drives for instance....
And of course the standard questions
have you checked the md5sum and burned slowly

[kentuckylodge]

Thanks. No it is a normal HD and the burn was OK as I have had no problems with anothr computer.

[linuxviolin]

the burn was OK as I have had no problems with anothr computer.

And you checked the md5sum before burning as asked by Husse?

[plowran]

Hey Man.
Im a noob also so I dont know how much I can help.
I have the same HDD as my media HDD and I am about to buy another.
If I am reading correctly you are using this as a master HDD, so this may not help you, I installed on a IDE drive and My SATA WD500 wouldnt mount, I had to go into System settings and set a mount point in the Media folder for the SATA Drive and Enable it with Admin Privileges. Now it works for me (After I setup the NTFS Drives for Read Write). So Im a noob but I know how to mess around a bit.
I doubt this will help but I tried
Philip

[kentuckylodge]

Yes. MD5sum checked out. Where do you mount the HD as suggested by plowran.

[Husse]

Ok let's take it a step further. You want to use the disk with ext3 as filesystem? Lets assume you want to use it as your home - then you add a line in fstab like this:

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/dev/sda6 /home           ext3    defaults        0       2

Of course you use what you have instead of sda6, and you need to use sudo to edit fstab

[plowran]

I Mounted Mine as Backup (Thats the purpose Of the drive) in the /media folder, enabled it, modified it to enable at startup and it works fine
Phil

[kentuckylodge]

It appears that the problem was with good old windows. Who would have guessed. I reinstalled with Home XP this time and it works. Why it didnt with vista is anyones guess.
thanks for the replys and at least I can now enjoy Linux Mint.

[Husse]

Did you burn a new disk in XP? I have heard about problems with disks burned in Vista.
If not there was probably an error in the MBR of the disk that was fixed with the reinstall of XP. And error in this case may not be a real "error" but something unexpected - booting is a complex process.