I have Red Hat Liunx 8.0 and it won't detect my hard drive (WD 40 Gig). At the point of installation where it needs to create partitions, it reports that there is no valid device to install to, or something like that. In other words it can't see my hard drive. I have Linux 6.1 and it gave the same message on this partictular hard drive. I thought it was the 6.1 version. I don't know if this has anything to do with it but I have Partition Magic and it won't always load. Most of the time an error message will come up that the partition table is bad. Would my compupter still work if this was the case? I dual boot between Windows 98 SE and 2000, and they both work. I have 98 formatted FAT32 and 2000 as NTFS if that helps any. I wanted to boot between all three, that was my intention. I have another hard drive with DOS 6.22/Windows 3.11, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000, Windows, XP, and Linux 6.1, and they all work. I ran diagnostics on my hard drive that came with it (WD 40GIG) and nothing came up unusual. I'm at a loss at this time. Can someone help me? Thank You. Larry L

I had the same problem. Red Hat 8.0 wouldnt detect my Western Digital 20GB harddrive. An error would pop up saying there were partitions on the harddrive that would cause errors in the bootloader. SInce i knew Red Hat would destroy the former partitions, I just ignored the error and the harddrive came up under the list and i was able to install. Everything works fine (-: