silassyria Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Hi I have a Corsair Force F60 and I d like to install Ubuntu on it. Unfortunately there are alway errors during the installation process. It says " Read only filesystem" during the datacopy. In contrast to that I was able to install Win7 on the same drive. I already updated Bios but without success at the Ubuntu installation. Does anybody have an idea? Regards silassyria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 On older linux kernels NTFS is read-only. This is a shot in the dark but if you already installed Windows 7 and the drive is NTFS that might be why you can't install linux to it. Just format the drive completely before you install it and you should be able to install it. Try an ext or Reiser, or even FAT32 if you want Windows compatibility later if you haven't tried these already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silassyria Posted October 3, 2010 Author Share Posted October 3, 2010 Thanks for the idea. Before installation the disc is formatted with Gparted. But I didnt chose any system. Does it make any difference if I format the disc BEFORE the installation process with EXT2 for example? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Yes it certainly does, you should use GParted to format it with the filesystem that you want. ext is an excellent choice, I would use version 3 or 4 if you can support it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silassyria Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 I tried EXT2 and EXT3. Unfortunately with both systems i didn't succeed. The error was the same as mentioned in my first post. Does anybody have any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 It sounds to me like it's more of a Ubuntu/Linux problem. I would check with Ubuntu support or their forums, or a general-purpose Linux forums if possible. There is a power problem with the Force drive right now but I don't think it's related. Can you put the drive in a Windows machine and report back what firmware you have by using CrystalDisk Info? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silassyria Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 Sure. The firmware is 1.1 I already wrote in an Ubuntu Forum but I didnt get any response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 4, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 4, 2010 I would try another Build of the O.S. like SUSE or Mandrake both free downloads you can use to test. But I have installed both of these on the same drive with no issues at all. I am using openSUSE-11.3-DVD-i586 to other testing now on that same drive with the same firmware. You also might try and run Parted Magic and do a secure erase on the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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