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7/19/12 at 3:58pm
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I have an UEFI Asrock extreme 4 generation 3 board (which is probably part of the problem from some stuff on UEFI I have been looking at) and a SSD hyper X 120GB with Windows 7. I am trying to dual boot between the two. Below are steps that I have tried and am getting burned out searching for the answer.

1. I have unplugged everything but the SSD
2. I have installed the latest firmware for the SSD.
3. I have moved the SSD from a SATA 3 to SATA 2 and even tried different ports in general.
4. During the live CD I am able to browse the SSD and even play around with it using Gparted.
5. I have tried a couple of other distros just in case (staying with Mint though XD).
6. Made sure ASCHI was enabled.

I don't understand why the Live CD can see the hard drive but the installer doesn't. This has been my most difficult experience with Linux so far. The drive has been shrunken as well to allow space for Mint. I have looked at many different solutions and they all just seem over whelming and kind of need a "For dummies approach" in helping me out. Any help would be appreciated.
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7/19/12 at 4:21pm
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Wait so the drive dosn't show up at all? You dont need to partition. Mints installer is quite advanced and incluseive, it should automaticly detect windows 7 and give you the option to dual boot. When you run the installer, jut keep going util its gets to the disk part. You should have three options 'guided partitioning' where it uses the whole disk 'dual boot with existing os' chose this and of advanced partitioning which you can ignore.
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7/19/12 at 4:30pm
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Finally, a reply, thank you!


The Drive does not show up in the installer part of the Live CD. Like clicking to install, selecting English then the partition part comes up and the only drives it sees is the HDD. If I stay in Live CD and go to Gparted it does see my SSD there and I can browse my SDD just fine as well. It is only not showing up in the actual installer. I get a dev/sda in the drop down box but no option to partition anything when the SSD is the only thing running.. Also the installer is not recognizing my windows installation.

Edit: should I go ahead a delete the shrunked part of the drive as well?
Edited by gabead - 7/19/12 at 4:35pm
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7/19/12 at 7:03pm
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I would. Mints will allow you to shink/grow the partitions as part of the install. It will also make the actully bootloader part of the dual boot automatic, which is much easyer. Now, you say you tried other distros, do you mean that the ssd wasn't seen in all of the tried distros? What were the distros? Linux distro are all based/releated to tons of others, so if you have this problem in mint, the chances are it will be the same in ubuntu. I would try something completly unrelated- fedora, suse, free(or pc) bad, etc.
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7/19/12 at 7:52pm
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Yeah it still did not work, I tried ubuntu and fedora as well. I just did a total clean install for windows just to make sure nothing was messing something up. I don't understand why it see it on the live cd but not the install. Very frustrating.
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7/19/12 at 8:16pm
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I can't tell, mint should be seeing this. Maybe post something here: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/forum.php ocns linux community isn't huge and ive gotten some good help from there before. Be ready with a complete run down of your computer ssd, etc. i cant help, hopfuly someone there can.
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7/19/12 at 9:20pm
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Got it!!! I tried to install fedora and got an error message about metadata bio raid on my SSD so it skipped it. I went back to mint after seeing the error message and went to terminal and typed sudo dmraid -r - E and it worked! So I got it installed but I am not getting a choice to dual boot. What now do I do now.
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7/19/12 at 9:29pm
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Once windows is installed the option should come inside the mint partitioning stage of the installer. If not or done in a different order, you will have to edit your grub file
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7/19/12 at 9:47pm
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I just reinstalled it. I went with the automatic setup which I usually never do. I ended up assigning root where it is supposed to go. Now I am up and running and it is FAST on SSD lol! I appreciate you taking the time to help.
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No prob! Hope it keeps working for ya.
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