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First I apologize, I know that my English isn't very good.
Now, I'm in live-CD from Ubuntu 16.04 AMD64

I tried to install Elementary OS. I failure and my HDD lost all of my information (Windows, docs, etc)...

Then, I tried to install Q4OS from Windows executable file (.exe).
I failure, black screen with white words. I can't remember those words, but the idea is that Q4OS hasn't boot manager and OS information. The HDD that I select to install the OS wasn't formatted.

Then, I tried to install Ubuntu 16.04 and I'm here, in Live-CD interface and writing to you.

In all of then cases I has the same problem:
Unable to create X or Y partition (frequently exchange area - in Spanish "area de intercambio").

Now, in Live-CD I try to format the HDD disks (my pc has 2 HDD >> one: 1TB, the other one: 80GB).

I can't, I try using Gparted, y try using Disks and y try using Cfdisk console command and I can't do anything, neither create partition table or format any disk...

GParted do nothing, only try to create partition table but before the process nothing changes... Cfdisk, the same case, try but when I reload (quit and enter again) nothing changes.

And Disks try but the information after the process is the same that before.

Error formatting volume: error synchronizing after formatting with type "ext4" Timed out waiting for object

usdisks-error-quark, 0

Please help me installing Ubuntu (yes, I can install again Windows but that isn't the idea).

If its relevant: I have an GA-970A-DS3P and RX Radeon 550

OS INSTALLATION: OS INSTALLATION

GPARTED BEFORE: GPARTED BEFORE

GPARTED IN: GPARTED IN

GPARTED AFTER: GPARTED AFTER

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Zahir Obando Arenas
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  • Related: https://askubuntu.com/a/377396/367990 – Byte Commander Apr 12 '18 at 07:58
  • Thanks you! That dont works :(, i can do not anything then i cant create partition table – Zahir Obando Arenas Apr 12 '18 at 08:16
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    what does the information about the unallocated space in gparted say, since there is a red warning sign? – DJCrashdummy Apr 12 '18 at 08:20
  • the warning says

    /dev/sda: unrecognised disk label

     – Zahir Obando Arenas Apr 12 '18 at 08:25
  • @ZahirObandoArenas: are you sure? your picture is showing sdb as the selected drive (with the unallocated space) and now you are writing about sda...?!? – DJCrashdummy Apr 12 '18 at 08:36
  • Oh, im sorry, i challenge the device, but the information was the same in sdb device; now im trying formatting sdb (80gb HDD) to ext2 with Disks with the option "overwrite existing data with zeroes" (slow), maybe with that process the device can recognize the disk – Zahir Obando Arenas Apr 12 '18 at 08:55
  • here is an screenshot from Gparted SDB [https://ibb.co/dQ4yBc ] – Zahir Obando Arenas Apr 12 '18 at 08:59
  • THE LOG IS>>>>>>>>> GParted 0.25.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

    Libparted 3.2 Create Primary Partition #1 (ext2, 74.50 GiB) on /dev/sdb 00:00:01 ( ERROR )

    create empty partition 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS )

    path: /dev/sdb1 (partition) start: 2048 end: 156248063 size: 156246016 (74.50 GiB) clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdb1 00:00:00 ( ERROR ) libparted messages ( INFO )

    /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label

     – Zahir Obando Arenas Apr 12 '18 at 09:24
  • well... there is a wide variety of possible causes and solutions: please use your trusted web-search to get further with this error-message... (one possibility is a RAID with the other drive - so be careful to not loose data stored on the other drive!) || if you are sure that the second drive can be completely deleted you may try sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb as a last resort to easily delete everything and start from the beginning. || or you may rework your question or ask a new one not about installing, but about recovering your inaccessible harddrive. – DJCrashdummy Apr 15 '18 at 17:10

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