Ok, after taking another look I guess I was wrong (it was almost 4am... I must have been see'ing things :) ), it does not recognize the hard disk whatsoever. A quick look through /proc/partitions & /proc/ide0/* does not turn up any information on my hard disk at all. So now I guess Im left wondering, how do I go about getting it to recognize my hard disk? Thanks for the reply, Josh Dennis Gardner wrote: > This is a shot in the dark, but what exactly did the dmesg output > indicate? I have two systems (neither a laptop) and they both have > multiple ide controllers. Therefore, the first drive on the systems is > not /dev/hda. On both, it is /dev/hde. This is due to the fact that the > first controller handles /dev/hda,b,c,d and the second controller (the one > with the HD) controls /dev/hde,f,g,h. In Windows, it would still be seens > as the first drive and therefore, would be c:. > > Just a guess really, > > Dennis