Help! I screwed up installing Mint!

[blake0812]

I'm having trouble finding my SSD in Mint, particularly when I hit "install Mint" the storage does not show up and it doesn't show up in Gparted either, but when I reboot the computer and run without the USB mint is on it boots to a windows start up error so I know it's working.


This is what I get when I type "sudo fdisk -l" in terminal


sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7bd52a2a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1953519615 976758784 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Disk /dev/sdb: 15.5 GB, 15493758976 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 14776 cylinders, total 30261248 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x20ac7dda

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 ? 3224498923 3657370039 216435558+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 ? 3272020941 5225480974 976730017 16 Hidden FAT16
/dev/sdb3 ? 0 0 0 6f Unknown
/dev/sdb4 50200576 974536369 462167897 0 Empty

Partition table entries are not in disk order


This is driving me insane because I don't know how to get it to show up again, what do I do?

 

[blake0812]

So trying to reinstall Windows 7, I put the iso on a USB but the SSD won't even show up now when I select the disk! Is my SSD dead?

 

[lxskllr]

Try booting to a gparted livecd, and formatting it from that.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php