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I "solved" the problem the bad way: I switched the modes of my hard drives to AHCI and reinstalled Windows 7, then installed Ubuntu.

If you have the same motherboard, then that's confirmation that...

Nope, PartedMagic saw nothing from that boot CD, either. fdisk -l was similarly helpless.

Here are my BIOS settings, which I guess probably are at fault here, but I'd be incredibly nervous to...

Thanks again for the replies.
Rubi1200: On second glance /dev/sda does exist. Did I just miss it before? That said, still no luck.
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda print
Error: Error...

Thanks for your reply.

I should have mentioned this before, but I also ls 'd the /dev directory. There weren't any hda# or sda# entries in it. I'm off to work right now but will double-check...

Pretty much as the title says. I am attempting an amd64 install on a new computer that has two 1 TB Hard Drives, with Windows 7 on one of them. When booting from a Ubuntu 10.10 CD to perform the...