I had Suse Linux and Windows XP working on two separate hard drives (2-3 years). That died, so I went out and bought two new (bigger) hard drives to start fresh. I downloaded Windows XP (Home) on the first drive. Now, I put the second drive in (unformatted) and tried to install Ubuntu 9.04 from an ISO image I burned onto a disk. During the install, it did not recognize my other hard drive so, I aborted the install for now. I'm guessing I need to format the disk first.
What do I do next and how do I do it? How do I go about formatting the new disc? FAT32 or NTFS? Do I use the "New Partition Wizard" in Windows XP or is there another way to do this? Windows only lets me format it in NTFS. I just want to have a dual booting system like before.
Can someone point me in the right direction. I don't want to mess this up and have to start all over again. I am reading books on Linux and going to Newbie forums to learn all I can. This is still new territory for me.
I have an AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2200+
1.8 GIGz, 512 MB of RAM
ACPI Uniprocessor (32 bit)
Comcast High Speed Internet
250 G Hard Drive (IDE) with Windows XP on it
160 G Hard Drive (PATA, IDE) unformatted and just installed
Hitachi DVD ROM GD 5000
LIT-ON CD-RW SOHR-52385
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I dual boot, with two drives.
I dual boot, with two drives. I have used Kubunuu and now use Crunchbang, a derivative of Ubuntu.
At what point did you decide that it did not recognize your other disk?
The install disk should partition and format the new disk. It should be unnecessary to format it separately.
How were the old disks wired up? Were they master and slave? Have you reproduced that?