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Partition a hard drive?
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Please boot into your Bios and see if your hard drive is even recognized by your Bios. If you can then update your question, we will take if from there.
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I’m thinking that your hard drive has failed, too.
You don’t need to have a hard drive in order to boot the live CD. (Been there, done that.)
From the live CD (Ubuntu 10.04, at least) you can run “Start” | “System” | “Disk Utility” and see if it finds anything.
From any distribution, you should be able to run a terminal window (“Applications” | “Accessories” | “Terminal” in Ubuntu), and enter “sudo lshw” (lshw is short for “list hardware”). See what it reports.
But: if gparted isn’t finding anything, there’s a good chance your hard drive is dead.
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