Strange Problem with Win7 64bit and Pclos

[Peppercorn]

Hi all

I have just tried to install Pclos as a secondary op system next to my win7 and have used pclos now for many years. I just D/L the latest KDE version.

I have one hard drive with 2 partitions, the first abot 410gb with Win7 64bit installed and the other partition, 110gb which I was going to use for pclos.

But when I booted into Pclos and went to the manage your hard disks section I found that I had one hard drive of 520 gb with no partitions or operating system. Usually, it shows what type of formatted partition you have on your hard drive.

I am running a Toshiba Qosmio F60 with a sata HD.

Can someone help my out please? as something has gone amiss.

Thanks in advance

[uncleV]

Run fdisk -l from Terminal in root mode please to see what does it say.
Post the full output here please.

[Peppercorn]

Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders, total 1250263728 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe93876a5

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2          206848   820185087   409989120    7  HPFS/NTFS

[pirate]

where did you install to??

fdisk does not show a linux partition!!!!!!!!!

[Peppercorn]

Yea I kind of realise that now too. W hen I installed Win7 I left a 110gig partition for Linux but it seems to have been taken up by Windows.

I would normally under these conditions make a few partitions at the end of the drive but in Pclos it just shows an entire empty hard drive with no windows at all.

This has never happened to me before and I really don't want to stuff up my Windows install

[pirate]

I just installed pclos on a laptop with windows 7....I shrank the win7 partition down 200gigs..

then i booted the pclos cd...synaptic--reload---installed gparted to memory---created an

extended partion with the free space---created a logical 100gigs partition ntfs for data--

created swap partition 4 gigs---the remaining 50 gigs ext4....

rebooted to live cd--installed pclos---installed grub to linux partition....rebooted to

win7 and installed EasyBCD  ----added pclos to easybcd  and rebooted --when the bootloader

loaded i chose pclos........worked perfect