A.J. Bonnema wrote:
[I already sent this somewhere, but it didn't (afaics), so I'll repeat it here] I found out some more from /var/log/message in reaction to 'fdisk -l /dev/sda'. The output follows:
My first impression is that windows did not put a partition table on the drive, kinda like a floppy disk IIRC. Windows likes it, but Linux doesn't. Even though fdisk -l fails, can you use fdisk to put a single primary partition on the drive?