Cleaned hard drive not recognized
I would like to know why the following happened. I wiped a hard drive clean using Darik's Boot and Nuke to put win7 beta on the drive and test it. Win7 would not recognize the drive. After this I tried XP, same result. Then I tried w2k, 98SE with the same results, would not recognize the hard drive. I also tried 98SE bootdisk, no go. I Googled about the MBR, tried this information and still no go. The win CDs are full not upgrade versions.
I had downloaded Ubuntu 9.04, so I tried this. Guess what? You guessed it, Ubuntu recognized the
Drive, went on easy as pie and is quite usable (I am 66 and this is the first use of any linux OS).
Is Ubuntu that much more mature than windows or am I missing something?
Thanks