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mecanologo
April 27th, 2008, 07:12 PM
Hey all!
My computer has two 120 gigs HDD. (Not partitions).
I installed Ubuntu on my secondary HDD from Windows, and both boot greatly!
On my Computer I can see three drives which are:

CD/HDDVD Drive
Main HDD (Which is my Vista drive I may easily explore)
Toshiba System Volume (Has some files I ignore)
Filesystem (Here's my Linux)

sooo, my question, is how can I access the rest of the information on this drive? I love my Ubuntu, and Vista takes too long on booting... I prefer to use this baby!, Yet, I do need to access such drive.
Thanks.

TeoBigusGeekus
April 27th, 2008, 07:15 PM
Could you please be a bit more specific?
You can't see your vista volume from ubuntu - is this your question?

mecanologo
April 27th, 2008, 07:26 PM
Nope. I CAN see my vista drive.
NP there.
Ubuntu is on my second drive, and I may not read the rest of the second drive.
Thanks

TeoBigusGeekus
April 27th, 2008, 07:31 PM
I still don't understand... (sorry it's Easter in Greece and I've drunk a lot of wine today).
So you want to make Ubuntu see your whole second drive?
You want vista to see your whole second drive?
What is your case?

mecanologo
April 27th, 2008, 07:36 PM
Vista's fine. (I actually don't care much of it, thou)
I want to be able to read more than my Ubuntu from the second HDD. (When logged in at Ubuntu)
Thanks

TeoBigusGeekus
April 27th, 2008, 07:42 PM
Right oh!!!
Open a terminal in Ubuntu and type

sudo fdisk -l
that's -L and post the contents.

mecanologo
April 27th, 2008, 07:46 PM
jose@jose-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for jose:

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x44fb778d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 192 1536000 27 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 * 192 14594 115683328 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5d379805

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 14594 117219328 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 1 14594 117218304 7 HPFS/NTFS
jose@jose-laptop:~$

TeoBigusGeekus
April 27th, 2008, 07:50 PM
Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5d379805

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 14594 117219328 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 1 14594 117218304 7 HPFS/NTFS
jose@jose-laptop:~$

As you can see, Ubuntu recognises all 120gigs of your 2nd hd, so you shouldn't have a problem...
When you go to system monitor, how much free space does ubuntu give you for your 2nd volume?

mecanologo
April 27th, 2008, 08:04 PM
That's it!

TeoBigusGeekus
April 27th, 2008, 08:34 PM
Would you be king enough to explain each entry?

mecanologo
April 27th, 2008, 08:49 PM
That's my little problem....
LOL