I got a sata disk in a tower too recently. Sometimes after booting it's necessary for me to hit the leftmost sata disk button then hit the computer reset button to bring up a sata partition available for other software to find and then use. On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Peter Nikolic wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2012 20:59:07 Don Juan wrote: > > On 01/11/2012 12:54 PM, Peter Nikolic wrote: > > > Hi folks > > > > > > Well havin had a big sucsess on the laptop so i thoight i would at last > > > try this box but alsa the install cd boots but is unable to find my > > > sata disk now i know the disk is ok else i would not be typing this from > > > suse . > > > > > > hardware info : AMD Quad Phenome cpu Nvidia GT220 1 Gb > > > > > > Mother board MSI ATI chipset SB700 /SB800 sata chip > > > 4Gb ram Hdd 500Gb > > > > > > any help please .. > > > Pete . > > > > Have you tried different boot options yet like nomodeset? > > Hummm not tried that yey but i was under the assumption that was to do with the > graphics system .. > > Pete > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>