Ubuntu – Can’t create partitions on installation

12.04installation

Attaching a couple of screenshots to better explain.

install

gparted

So in the 1st screen, I can't click anything. New partition table is disabled, so are the rest of the buttons. Clicking install, results in an error.

In the 2nd screen you can see that I don't have any option to set a mount point for my newly created partition. Also if I use GParted to create my partitions, the installer doesn't see any of them.

Any ideas how I can install Ubuntu? I had no problems installing it on a different machine. Also I think the HDD was running a windows before without any problems.

Updated the questions with the result of fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 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: 0x000914db

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048  1953523711   976760832   83  Linux

Best Answer

I had even tried to install Windows, which had no problem, but I still couldn't install Ubuntu after that.

The solution was to run mke2fs with some params (my colleagues ran it so I'm not sure what the params are).

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