Ok , I have two sata 160 go hard disk connected to the motherboard to sata1 and sata2 port ( don't know if that's really important to know ) I've installed windows XP sp2 on the first hard disk , 40 go ntfs partitionned almost equally on the first sata HD, on the second one , I've created ntfs partitions and ext3 /boot , / , / home and swap partitions ( I intend to install FC5 on the second hard disk ) booting FC5 graphic install, after setting the language install setup and keyboard language, I get this message : "The partition table on device mapper /isw_hgbhgbbcd_volume0 was unreadable to create new partitions, it must be initialized causing the Loss of ALL DATA on this drive This operation will override any previous installation choices about which drives to ignore would you like to initialize this drive erasing ALL DATA " pushing the "NO button " reboot the machine the "Yes button" erases all the partitions in the first hard disk ! note that I had fc4 installed and running all right on my pc seems fc5 doesn't like the way windoze xp sp2 does the partitionning hicham.
