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Windows can not see HD after Ubuntu installation

Asked by alecjcook

Hi, I have a HP Buisness laptop. It has 1 HD that I have split into 4 partitions:
Ext2; swap; blank; fat32.
Currently the Ext2 and swap partitions are used for Ubuntu, but I am interested on getting MSWindows into the blank partition (it is a matter of NEED, not WANT).
Unfortunately the XP installation disk, when launched says that windows can not find any Hard Disks attached to the computer.
The blank partition, as shown in Ubuntu's Patrition Editor, is displayed as blank, unmounted, unlocked and un-labelled.
All partitions are Primary partitions.

Does anyone know what this might be?

Many thanks, Alec

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#1

actually that is not an ubuntu problem. sounds like windows is having trouble seeing your hard disk for some reason during install. You may need to change a setting in the bios like RAID->SATA... sometimes you need to provide a driver for the hard disk controller (i think its F6 during install) for windows to be able to see the hard disk.

either way windows should be able to see the hard disk wether or not it is partitioned and wether or not it has a different OS on it.

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