I could not get past step 4 when trying to install any version of Ubuntu on my Sata drive. I had XP on the first 300 Gigs and was trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 on the 200gig left over.

Hello, did you try ubuntu 8.10? maybe it should detect your sata drive

Yes  Used all of them at one time or another.

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Subject: Re: [Question #64579]: I could not get past step 4 when trying to install any version of Ubuntu on my Sata drive. I had XP on the first 300 Gigs and was trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 on the 200gig left over.
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Hello, did you try ubuntu 8.10? maybe it should detect your sata drive

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Try to boot to ubuntu cd, and choose try computer without changing your computer, when desktop appear, can you see your hardisk?

and please open terminal, and type lspci
post the result to here

What make you know that Ubuntu did not see your Sata drive at all?
Is it some error message appear?

Thank you

I look your previous question,
did you try what marcobra post in https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/62889 ?

Thank you

When step 4 comes up to partition drive there is none there.

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Subject: Re: [Question #64579]: I could not get past step 4 when trying to install any version of Ubuntu on my Sata drive. I had XP on the first 300 Gigs and was trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 on the 200gig left over.
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Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 10:29 PM

Your question #64579 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/64579

    Status: Open => Answered

Abi ^-^ proposed the following answer:
Try to boot to ubuntu cd, and choose try computer without changing your
computer, when desktop appear, can you see your hardisk?

and please open terminal, and type lspci
post the result to here

What make you know that Ubuntu did not see your Sata drive at all?
Is it some error message appear?

Thank you

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Hi, so in previous questions we've seen that there is something to do with FakeRaid but the advice from
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto

Didn't help. When you switched the Raid part off in the bios all that happened was that you couldn't boot into Xp and Ubuntu still couldn't see the drives anyway, We've had some very knowledgeable people look at this in those past questions and none of the new people were able to solve it this time either.

I think it's "truth on the ground" time. It should be possible to install Ubuntu but we're all stuck. I think it's got to be time to try one of the other major distro. Perhaps Fedora or Mandriva or OpenSuse
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mandriva
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse
I can't remember the other 3 (or so). Mostly if someone can't get ubuntu to work then fedora seems to be the one that does work. Good luck and good hunting

Apologies and regards from
Tom

I Hope Ubuntu 9.04 will detect your sata drive .....