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partition not showing up

I have a Hp G-56-122US Laptop and I am attempting to install fedora 14 on one of the partitions.
I have 3 partitions (100Gb,160 and 40) and I intend installing fedora on the 40gb partition but the problem is when I use Live USB and try to install fedora it shows the 40gb and 100 together as one partition. but in windows 7 it shows up as 2 different partition.
what do I do?
edit:
and there is one more thing it shows the Bios partitions as well.. an 8mb and a 200mb which has folders named hp bios... (whereas in Ubuntu these partitions don't appear)

As a first step in sorting this out, please show us the output of "fdisk -l" so that we can see what the Fedora and Ubuntu partitioners see about the size and order on partitions.

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Originally Posted by bigrigdriver (Post 4267402)

As a first step in sorting this out, please show us the output of "fdisk -l" so that we can see what the Fedora and Ubuntu partitioners see about the size and order on partitions.

the output of fdisk -l

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Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x4be9bcc0



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sda1              63        2047        992+  42  SFS

/dev/sda2  *        2048      409599      203776  42  SFS

/dev/sda3          409600  309069823  154330112  42  SFS

/dev/sda4      624928768  625140399      105816  42  SFS



Disk /dev/sdb: 8000 MB, 8000110592 bytes

160 heads, 19 sectors/track, 5139 cylinders, total 15625216 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sdb1  *          32    15625215    7812592    b  W95 FAT32



Disk /dev/dm-0: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders, total 6291456 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000





Disk /dev/dm-1: 3221 MB, 3221225472 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 391 cylinders, total 6291456 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

How did you solve it?

@decodedthought
I can not figure out how did you solve this problem? Please tell, because one of my friends also having similar kind of problem.