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
