Ubuntu installing problem

[Fred Roller]

On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 20:17 +0300, nedyalko dyakov wrote:
> Fred Roller wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 19:46 +0300, nedyalko dyakov wrote:
> >   
> >> Guys why when I try to install Ubuntu it doesn't see my partitions. On 
> >> the step with partitions it's only blank hard disk (  the model name and 
> >> size are correct ). I have 120GB SATA hard drive with firmware 3.AA. I 
> >> didn't have this problem before with my old MB. How to fix it?
> >> Sorry for my bad English,
> >> Ned
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Have you tried booting a live distro and using a partition software like
> > gparted (gui) or fdisk (cli) to see if your partitions are in fact gone.
> > I am presuming you have data on the hdd you wish to preserve?  What was
> > on the drive prior moving it to the new MB?
> >
> >   
> When I boot Live distribution everything is fine. I can read/write to my 
> partitions. The problem is there - i don't wanna format my whole hard 
> disk because I have 70gb information , Windows partition , Debian and 
> other stuffs. I have ubuntu installed, too , but it works slower with 
> new mb ( slower than live cd in fact). So I think it would be ok when I 
> install a new one. Hard Disk is fine, because I was able to install 
> Windows on it after moving to the new MB.
> Regards,
> Ned
> 
If you installed windows after you moved the hdd to the new mb have you
confirmed the partitions are intact and windows did not take the whole
drive for itself.  If the partitions exist have you tried the manual
partition option during ubuntu install where it would read and display
your existing partition table and give you the option to adjust and more
importantly, mount without touching the data.
Personally, if the partitions are in question and yet you can still get
to them I would move the data you wish to save to another drive (if this
is an option) so you have a backup of some sort.  

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