Wheres The 2nd Disk?

[Jeeves1983]

do i have to go into my bios from the boot menu screen?

[boblemur]

yup prob like tap f<something> or del key on boot... it will be writen their when ur pc boots...

can u run:

sudo fdisk -l | grep 'Disk '

for me please

will give u a list of disks... see if its found there... keep in mind if u have like usb sticks and stuff there they will appear... so check the size

[matt$2]

Yes. If it doesn't come up with the fdisk search, then you go into the bios at bootup.

[Jeeves1983]

can you give me directions to where it should be please

[boblemur]

do you mean the command?

you need to run that in your terminal ( applications > accessories > terminal)

and the bios can be accessed when you first turn your computer on, you will have some kinda logo or slash screen and look for anything that has a key name... and then setup or something, what type of computer do you have?

failing that you can just try spamming your fXX keys and ur del key and stuff and it would prob get you there

[ChameleonDave]

To post the contents of a file, there is no need to use "sudo" or "gedit". Simply use "cat" to dump the contents of the file onto the terminal. Then copy and paste.

cat /etc/fstab

When posting such output on the forum, please put it between [code]...[/code] tags in order to make it clear and legible. You can do it by selecting the text, and then clicking on the "#" button in the forum post editor.

(Helpers: the same goes for when you are giving newbies instructions. Please don't confuse the newbies with ambiguous or vague instructions.)

If your device is not listed in /etc/fstab, it will not be automatically mounted. We therefore ought to add an entry in /etc/fstab to correct this situation. However, we first need to see whether the device is visible to the operating system. Please use the following command:

sudo blkid

Post the results here.

[Jeeves1983]

Right this is what you wanted. While your thinking of something, ill restart my comp and go into my bios. Back in a bit...

ryan@ryan-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l | grep 'Disk '
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xed55ed55

[Jeeves1983]

also my dvd drive won't read dvd movies? any ideas there?

[Jeeves1983]

Hi Chameleon Dave. Inputted the command as instructed

ryan@ryan-laptop:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="9bf35c52-1c03-4428-bd34-40c3802f4fae" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sda5: TYPE="swap" UUID="c94895c8-853d-41c5-858f-380934f77bf6"

Any Ideas?

[matt$2]

Chameleon's request only confirmed what seemed already established.
Your system is not seeing the second drive.

You will have it resolved if you fixed the deficit in the bios. You sort of haven't mentioned what happened about that.
The dvd movie viewing will be fixed by installing the required codecs.

Firstly, the drive.