I have two 160-GB Western Digital hard disks. One is a SATA boot disk that LMDE labels sdb, and the other is an IDE data disk that Mint labels sda.
When i boot the 64-bit LMDE live CD, the SATA disk (sdb) doesn't appear in the installer's partition setup screen. What to do? I would like to remove Mint Julia on that disk and install LMDE.
I've heard there are problems using an IDE and SATA disk. But it works fine in Mint 10 Julia.
LMDE 64-bit installer doesn't see my main SATA disk
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LMDE 64-bit installer doesn't see my main SATA disk
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Re: LMDE 64-bit installer doesn't see my main SATA disk
Hi!
We need some more information; please read my help (link1 below).
seeley
We need some more information; please read my help (link1 below).
seeley
Re: LMDE 64-bit installer doesn't see my main SATA disk
Seeley, thanks. Here's the output of fdisk -l:
And here is sudo parted -l print:
Uh-oh, looks like trouble in the first line. Any tips for putting the partitions in good order?
BTW, in the Grub boot screen, there are old Windows XP and Linux installs (both non-bootable) listed on what is now my data disk (variously identified as sda or sdb depending on what program is being used to read the disk - I hear that's something that can happen when you have SATA and IDE disks in a system. ??)
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Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcb152f46
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 10199 81919968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 10199 13386 25600000 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 13386 13768 3068920 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 13769 19458 45704925 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 13769 19458 45698048 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d636b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 10199 81919968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 10199 13238 24414208 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 13239 13542 2440193 5 Extended
/dev/sdb4 13542 19458 47514624 83 Linux
/dev/sdb5 13239 13542 2440192 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Model: ATA WDC WD1600SD-01K (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 83.9GB 83.9GB primary ntfs
2 83.9GB 109GB 25.0GB primary ext4
3 109GB 111GB 2499MB extended
5 109GB 111GB 2499MB logical linux-swap(v1)
4 111GB 160GB 48.7GB primary ext4
BTW, in the Grub boot screen, there are old Windows XP and Linux installs (both non-bootable) listed on what is now my data disk (variously identified as sda or sdb depending on what program is being used to read the disk - I hear that's something that can happen when you have SATA and IDE disks in a system. ??)
Re: LMDE 64-bit installer doesn't see my main SATA disk
Hi!
The "wrong" order 1 2 3 5 4 is no problem, but I must say, I never have seen such an error:
seeley
The "wrong" order 1 2 3 5 4 is no problem, but I must say, I never have seen such an error:
And I don't have experience on LBA.Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
seeley