Re: FC3 installation failure -- SATA problem?

Thanks, Steve, for your kind reply.

But could you please explain how to use fdisk to remove all partitions? I have a dual-boot machine with Windows XP on another partition.

Thanks, in advance.

--peter

Steve Sheldon <steve.sheldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Peter,
Remove all partitions from your sata drive usng fdisk & it'll work
fine.. it is a known problem..
All the best
Steve

peter wu wrote:

> Thanks for your kind reply. (I think Aaron's e-mail was sent to only
> me, so I am repeating.)
>
> It's weird... I initially had FC3 INSTALLED on my computer with SATA
> drive. But since partition table got hosed, I wiped out the hard
> drive, and installed FC4. Now, a program that I use doesn't run
> correctly on FC4 (wherea! s it runs cleanly on FC3), so I wanted to
> install FC3 back again. But this time it doesn't even install.
>
> Thanks for your help, in advance.
>
> --peter
>
> P.S. I think I was a much better person before I met Linux and
> dual-booting and partitioning...
>
> */akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx/* wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:52:22PM -0800, peter wu wrote:
> > Yes. It's Dell Dimension 8400 with SATA.
> >
> > --peter
> Well someone correct me if I am wrong. The! handling of SATA drives is
> a way FC3 differs from FC4. Or to put it another way it would not
> surprise me that FC4 could recognize your drives and FC3 cannot. Just
> a thought.
> >
> > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:28:22AM
> -0800, peter wu wrote:
> > > Hi, all,
> > >
> ! > > When I try to install FC3, I get the warning, "No hard drives
> have been found. You probably need to manually choose device
> drivers for the installation to succeed. Would you like to select
> drivers now?" If I choose a device, or just go ahead with
> installation, I get to Disk Partitioning Setup. When I ask for
> automatic partitioning, I get this message: "No Drives Found: An
> error has occurred. No valid devices were found on which to create
> new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this
> problem." Then installation fails.
> > >
> > > My question is: I already have FC4, but why FC3 installation
> would not recognize hard ! drive and how can I resolve this? (I
> want to install FC3 because one program is not forward-compatible.
> Please don't say "Use FC4.")
> > >
> > > Tha! nks for your help, in advance.
> > >
> > > --peter
> > What kind of drives are these. SATA drives maybe?
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