Fw: Fw: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

[Matthew Campbell <trenix25@pm.me>]

For the last time, the internal hard drive will not be erased.  Windows will stay on it.  It will not be used for Linux.  It is a really old hard drive that could fail at any moment.  Linux has been and will remain installed on the external 4 TB hard drive.

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-------- Original Message --------
On Jul 2, 2020, 11:50 AM, David Christensen < dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:

On 2020-07-02 01:12, Matthew Campbell wrote:
> The 4 TB hard drive uses a GPT type partition table, not an MBR type table, which is why the computer can't see it. It can't make sense of GPT tables. It is a Toshiba Satellite laptop. Satellite P105-S6187, model number PSPAAU-01L00S. I just ordered new memory for it yesterday. At the moment one memory card is sitting on top of it with the cover removed. I'll be putting it back together in a moment. It was factory preloaded with Windows Vistsa.

I still think the best answer is to disconnect the external drives, use
the Debian Installer rescue shell to zero-fill the internal drive, and
install Debian on the internal drive.

David