I installed a new hard drive right before installing the new Ubuntu 11.10 by reformatting, not upgrading. I was able to mount my drive, and partition it. It's a 1TB, and I was able to transfer all of my music, and videos to it.

For some reason, it won't mount on boot, and I can't figure out how to manually mount it afterwards either. Here's my current /etc/fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a

# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices

# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).

#

#                

proc                                       /proc        proc  nodev,noexec,nosuid           0  0  

# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation

UUID=e0fbdf09-f9a0-4336-bac3-ba4dc6cfbcc0  /            ext4  errors=remount-ro,user_xattr  0  1  

# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation

UUID=adf15180-c84c-4309-bc9f-085fd7464f89  none         swap  sw                            0  0  

/dev/sdc1                                  /media/sdc1  ext4  defaults                      0  0  

The last line is what I added for my hard drive.

Here's the output from sudo lshw -C disk:

% sudo lshw -C disk                                                                                                             ~

  *-disk:0                

       description: ATA Disk

       product: ST3250310AS

       vendor: Seagate

       physical id: 0

       bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0

       logical name: /dev/sda

       version: 3.AD

       serial: 6RYBF2QE

       size: 232GiB (250GB)

       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos

       configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=000da204

  *-cdrom

       description: DVD-RAM writer

       product: DVD+-RW DH-16A6S

       vendor: PLDS

       physical id: 0.0.0

       bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0

       logical name: /dev/cdrom

       logical name: /dev/cdrw

       logical name: /dev/dvd

       logical name: /dev/dvdrw

       logical name: /dev/scd0

       logical name: /dev/sr0

       version: YD11

       capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram

       configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc

Here's the output of sudo df -h:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda1             226G   49G  166G  23% /

udev                  2.0G  4.0K  2.0G   1% /dev

tmpfs                 792M  1.1M  791M   1% /run

none                  5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock

none                  2.0G  2.3M  2.0G   1% /run/shm