Hello,

my two sata drives are laid out like:-

1. 150gb - D: storage(100gb), and then 50gb unallocated
2. 180gb - C: Windows(180gb), none unallocated

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2.../Harddrive.jpg

I left the 50gb because i read linux can only install on unallocated space, but when i go to install on

use custom layout, it shows 2 drives, one 205gb showing as free and other 100gb showing at ntfs, but my drives are shown as above, so somthings wrong, its been suggested that i need a sata driver, can anyone show me which one i need please

thanks

custom layout
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...drummer/kk.jpg

Use space on selected drives and create default layout.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...rummer/kkk.jpg

I too, am confused with what fedora is actually showing. I think, it is not able to detect the two drives separately or its just simply adding up the disk spaces.

You have one whole drive of 186 GB (C: Windows!) on one SATA disk and the other has 50 GB unallocated. This seems a bit odd to me, since, I have the habit of dual booting with Windows and Linux on one HDD. The other HDD's can always be used for storage.

Simply put, I would recommend this.
1. Keep D: and format the unallocated space as FAT32 partition common to Fedora and Windows for storing / retrieving data.

2. In your first Disk, keep two partitions of size, that you would wish to give to Windows and Fedora. Instead, keep space unallocated for fedora. Install Windows first!

3. Begin, you fedora installation now, and possibly it should detect windows partition and the other disk too, separately.

well i installed, by letting it choose automatic setup, now before i installed linux i didn't have any of the partitions marked in red, so the linux partitions are the 108gb and the 102mb,

what is the 102mb?

and should the linux partition show up in windows, as for me its coming up as D:and being emptyhttp://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...mmer/linux.jpg