Comment 8 for bug 145086

I have just experienced the same issue... this is on an nVidia AMD chipset motherboard (ASUS M2NPV-VM) .. it was with a new Seagate Barracuda 80GB SATA drive. I wound up booting from an XP cd, and going as far as to let the installer partition the drive, reset on copying files.. then the partitioner seems to load properly... I'd say this is an important bug considering that one can't do an OEM install on a fresh/blank hard drive.