Win 7 Installation and Hard Drive Confusion
I suspect that my situation may be rather unique. I have three hard drives, two identical 250 GB drives and one 1 TB drive. I had formerly had Windows 7 installed on the two 250 GB drives as a striped RAID. I didn't notice any real performance increase so I've split the two drives up. On the first drive I have a 104 MB partition that was placed there by the Win 7 installation and the rest of the drive formatted as NTFS where Win 7 is installed. The 1 TB drive is used for data and has no operating system files on it, but it is formatted as NTFS. The 250 GB drive is empty and has either had either a partition that occupied part of the disk or (as it is now) unpartitioned.
When I try to install Ubuntu 10.04 it doesn't recognize 3 distinct drives. Instead it shows this:
/dev/mapper/
/dev/mapper/
/dev/mapper/
Free Space 250060 MB
It shows the 1 TB drive as /dev/sdc1. Now it's my opinion that the 2500060 MB is the second 250 GB drive on which I'd like to install Ubuntu, but what I don't understand is why it's not showing up as /dev/sdc2 nor why the first drive (with Win 7) is showing up as /dev/sdc1. nor the 1 TB drive as /dev/sdc3. I suspect that because the two 250 GB drives were at one time configured as a RAID that it may have left some "debris" that makes Ubuntu think that it's still a RAID. How can I fix this so that things appear as I expect it should?
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