SDB:"SATA Hard Drive Not Found“ on Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo E Computer

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Situation

You need to install OpenSUSE Linux on your computer with SATA hard drive. Each time the installation gets to hardware detection stage you get the annoying „Hard drive not found error“ message. You have applied different boot and installation options and none of them seem to work.

Procedure

By following this instructions you will loose all your data and operating systems on your hard drive. In order to avoid any important data loss please create backup on different storage device.

1. Enter the BIOS Setup program by pressing the F2

2. In your BIOS change the SATA Controller mode from IDE to RAID and save the settings.

3. Start the OpenSUSE installation, now your hard drive will be detected.

4. Restore all your data from backup.