Hello:

Just attempting to put a test-build of the 64-bit LXLE 14
on a drive also containing LinuxMint 17 and WindowsXP but the installer
just will not acknowledge the hard-drive exists.  The drive is a Sata
drive of 160GB and has only the max 4 primary partitions (no weird
extended ones).

When I boot into the Live session on do the 'Something Else' section of the installer, I Repeated get the following error:

"The ext4 file system in partition #3 of /dev/sda failed"

The same thing happens when I skip directly to the installer.

Have
tried completely removing the partition in Mint first, setting it to
something like NTSF, to format from, nothing seems to improve the
situation.  I know the partition is OK, because I previously had
elementary on it.

Is there any other way to install (ideally without having to format first - as that is where it always goes wrong)?

P.S. 
Tried running 'Disks' from the live environment also and also run into
an access error while trying to partition/format before install - Do I
have to install LXLE before anything newer, to avoid compatibility
problems?

P.S.  also tried live boot from USB, but the computer doesn't support USB boot.