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I am trying to install Ubuntu 11.10 on a machine that previously had Windows 7 installed. However, there are no drives/partitions available in the installation menu, and I cannot create any. The drive is empty, and formated ext4, using the gparted live cd, that does 'see' the drive. I am using an USB stick to install. It makes no difference whether is use the 'desktop' or the 'alternate' version of the iso. How should i progress?

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This may due to tiny errors in the partition table .same thing happends to me too i just format a partition using windows(fat) then tried again this time ubuntu discoverd the partition try this :) – abcd Feb 17 at 0:58
I'd redo the partition table with gparted for starters, to allow your system to read the drive. But as i'm not on a linux machine atm, I dont remember the exact steps or what all the prompts are. – Thomas Ward Feb 17 at 2:25
This is crazy, I've swapped the Harddrive with another one, still nothing. Could the installation be missing some motherboard drivers or something? – Lg102 Feb 17 at 15:18
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