Drive partitions not seen for installation

My computer has two hard drives at 232GB each. Windows disk manager shows them as Disk 0, which I use for Windows XP, and has six partitions. This drive seems to be working properly and I haven’t had any problems.
The second drive, shown as Disk 1, has two primary partitions which I creaded in Gparted using its live CD. Problem is when I try to install Ubuntu, or any other Linux distro, when I get as far as the partitioning step in the installation, nothing on this drive is seen by the installer. Is there anything I can do to have this drive detected by the installer?