also regarding the partitioned drive, why isnt my drives from laptop being detected?
I even used 'Partition Magic' to create partitions for an HFS+ drive but still no luck!
If sum how my drives could be detected, den I could be sure that it would boot up once the installation is complete!

I tried making all format drives, HFS+, NTFS and FAT32 but none of them are being detected in disk utility!
Any thing i could do here to make them appear?

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HP Pavillion dv6500
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-53
Motherboard Manufacturer - Quanta, Model - 30CF
Chipset and Southbridge - NVIDIA nForce 560
BIOS: Brand - HP, Version - F.07, Date - 08/09/2007
Memory: 1024 MB DDR2
GPU - Standard VGA Graphics Adapter A1