Cant Install Windows - Urgent Help Needed

[scottvsaunders]

Hi,

I have a fujitsu Siemens Amilo 1818 laptop that I am having problems with, basically I cant install windows on the machine as the hard drives are not recognised at all. If I try with Vista, I get a message telling me that the hard drives are formated in something call GPA format or if I try and use XP I get a message saying that there are no hard drives attached to the PC. I know that the drives are SATA drives but the version of Vista I know will work as it works on the desktop machine with SATA hard drives that I am using to post this message. I have managed to load up UbuntU on the PC and that shows me that the drives are there as I could install that on them if I wanted to. Its doing me head in and I dont know what I can do.

Please Help.
Thanks

 

[patrickv]

why not try formatting using a live cd (ubuntu or Gparted) into NTFS ?

 

[scottvsaunders]

why not try formatting using a live cd (ubuntu or Gparted) into NTFS ?

Hi,
I tried that but when It comes to selecting the hard drives , it does not show any now at all.

anything esle you can suggest?

 

[diroga]

Hi,
I tried that but when It comes to selecting the hard drives , it does not show any now at all.

Is that with gparted in the ubuntu live CD? top right hand corner drop menue allows you to select media (hdd or usb flash etc)