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I have an hard drive connected, shows up at bios, device management and computer management but when i go to it in computer management>disk management, its there but i cant do anything (says good state of function/Active/Primary Partition) , doesnt have a letter and i recently installed linux at that Hard drive and was good (before formatting clean all@diskpart and installing again) . At boot, the linux OS doesnt show while windows does.

Dont know if encrypting the whole drive has anything to do with this but i format it with clean all.

Sugestions? Thank you.
 
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terry4536
If Windows is still accessible, try running the hardware troubleshooter.


If Windows isn't accessible, I would start over with format and partitioning the hard disk. And then do a clean install of Windows (and Linux if you are trying a dual boot)

Here is an article on dual booting operating systems.

http://www.howtogeek.com/187789/dual-booting-explained-how-you-can-have-multiple-operating-systems-on-your-computer/
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If Windows is still accessible, try running the hardware troubleshooter.


If Windows isn't accessible, I would start over with format and partitioning the hard disk. And then do a clean install of Windows (and Linux if you are trying a dual boot)

Here is an article on dual booting operating systems.

http://www.howtogeek.com/187789/dual-booting-explained-how-you-can-have-multiple-operating-systems-on-your-computer/
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I forgot to mention windows is in another hard drive and working well. The hard drive that i install linux isnt working well as said above and i formated previously with clean all.
 
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Did nothing. I have error "Cant have a partition outside the disk". I try make some commands that i found to fix like "sudo fdisk -1" or "sudo parted -1" but they came invalid.
 
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Did the installation well now. Made a boot partition 100 MB then almost of the drive for / and the rest for swap 4GB.

Just dont understand why i had that error because before i didnt have anything or was required to partition the hard drive. Thanks for the help guys.
 
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justiceer

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Yes that was what i was doing but i kept having this error that cant do partition outside the hard drive but i was clicking on the hard drive.

Yeah i know how to format drives ;) and install OS not that new. Thanks anyway.
 
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