To all,

I filled up my initial 500Gb hard drive and know
I need to clean it up(project for future date).
I had a 1000GB drive available and grabbed it from
The shelf. I plugged it into the open slot but hadvto take the SATA cable from my full drive as there was only one sata cable. I plugged it in
And put an ubuntu 14.0 i believe and it looked like
It would boot load and run. But it didnt it had a hard drive error not sure which error! How can i load centos or ubuntu on a never used drive?

cajunchief

If it's never been used, the chances are that it has no partitions or partition table as yet. You may have to create those using a suitable program such as cfdisk, parted or gparted. You might have one of those on your Ubuntu hard drive but since you say you can't use two hard drives at once, you will need to boot from a cd or usb.

It's quite possible that your Ubuntu installation disc will have suitable software on it. If not, I suggest that you burn a SystemRescue cd. SystemRescue has gparted and that is certainly the easiest program I know for this kind of job.

Once you have created a DOS "label", which contains the partition table, you can create the partitions you want. Then install Ubuntu.

Both Centos and Ubuntu can install on a new drive, they both have partitioning applications to deal with this during a new installation. It is possible you need to go into computer settings (BIOS), and set the new drive up. It is possible the drive set up in BIOS is the one that's unplugged and thus causing the confusion for the Linux installers.

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You put Centos or Ubuntu on drives, old or new, by following the installation instructions, which I won’t repeat here.

Can you try again, write down the error message and share it here?

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To all,

Finally got a CentOS 7.6 update disk and this solved my problem! Thanks!!!

cajunchief