Currently, I have a dual boot set up with Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS. I have a seperate / and /home partition for both (ext4). When I run the installer, it claims the whole disc is empty.

I tried the expert option and loaded every module that seemed to have to do with partitioning, but that made no change. Is there some simple option I am missing that might help it recognize that there are existing partitions? This was the "testing" installer if that makes any difference.

Thought I should post a follow up to this. I set the partitions up with Ubuntu, and installed it first. Then I installed PCLinuxOS on the partitions I had made for it with the ubuntu installer.

I threw the ubuntu disc in and gparted says there aren't any partitions either.... So I'm assuming that something is really screwy with my partitions in some way. And whatever the problem is, it happened during or after the PCLinuxOS install.

Planning on making sure I have everything done I need to do for the next day or so and wipe it all and start over. Any conspiracy theories on what happened? I'm noob enough to not have seen this before.

Howdy,

I am having exactly the same problem. I have 1 partition that I shrunk in Windows 7. It is a basic partition. When I try and install any flavour of linux, gParted or the installers do not show my current existing partitions.

Any ideas or help will be appreciated.

Using a Live CD I would like to see the output from;
On a Debian Live CD you would use the root terminal and no sudo.