No view of hard drives

[shawfield]

Ubuntu is great & I have had no big problems so far.

However, why is it that Ubuntu doesnt recognise the other partitions on my hard drive ?

I wanted to copy my music from what was my c: drive in windows ( its still there in its own partition ) over the network.

But Ubuntu only shows the partition that Ubuntu is installed upon. It does not display any details of the other ( original ) partition. This is the same whether I have properly installed Ubuntu, or whether I am using a live CD.

Is there a different application to use to 'see' those files on the other partition ? I am using the 'places' menu on the panel & clicking on 'computer'.

Thanks
Mike

[tangibleorange]

Ubuntu is great & I have had no big problems so far.

However, why is it that Ubuntu doesnt recognise the other partitions on my hard drive ?

I wanted to copy my music from what was my c: drive in windows ( its still there in its own partition ) over the network.

But Ubuntu only shows the partition that Ubuntu is installed upon. It does not display any details of the other ( original ) partition. This is the same whether I have properly installed Ubuntu, or whether I am using a live CD.

Is there a different application to use to 'see' those files on the other partition ? I am using the 'places' menu on the panel & clicking on 'computer'.

Thanks
Mike

could you post the output of:

sudo fdisk -l

[pastalavista]

Check System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager and install (if they aren't already) ntfs-3g, ntfs-config and optionally, ntfsprogs. Then reboot and see if it helped.

[Circus-Killer]

its also important to remember that linux doesn't have a c: or d: etc.

instead, partitions and drives are mounted to an empty directory. for example if i wanted to mount the partition labeled /dev/sda2, i would mount it to something like /media/sda or whatever. point being that you access a drive or partition by mounting it to a directory and then go into that directory to view the drive/partition contents.

[shawfield]

root@mike-desktop:/home/mike# sudo fdisk -1
fdisk: invalid option -- 1

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
root@mike-desktop:/home/mike#

[tangibleorange]

root@mike-desktop:/home/mike# sudo fdisk -1
fdisk: invalid option -- 1

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
root@mike-desktop:/home/mike#

sorry that's a lower case L - l
not a 1. my bad, i should have cleared that up...

[shawfield]

Sorry - wrong parameter !

This is better...

root@mike-desktop:/home/mike# sudo fdisk -1
fdisk: invalid option -- 1

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
root@mike-desktop:/home/mike#

[shawfield]

oops...the curse of Ctrl-C in Linux strikes again. I can never get that to work...

root@mike-desktop:/home/mike# sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x45b32571

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1019 8185086 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1020 19457 148103235 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1020 1528 4088511 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 1529 3293 14177331 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 3294 19104 127001826 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 19105 19457 2835441 82 Linux swap / Solaris
root@mike-desktop:/home/mike#

[Orange_and_Green]

Hello Mike

I hate to break such news to you but... I can't see any Windows partitions in there... You obviously did a manual partitioning when you installed Ubuntu the first time... are you sure you did not delete/overwrite the Windows partition?

You are talking about network... Is the C: partition you are talking about supposed to reside on the same computer you are using for Ubuntu, or are we talking about two different computers on a LAN?

[shawfield]

Its all a bit odd.

I removed the drive & connected via an enclosure to my Acer One ( Linpus Linux Lite ).

That reports a volume called 'x' ( which, when I viewed it on my Ubuntu machine, I presumed was a Linux directory ). This contains all of the files you'd expect to see on a Windows root directory - autoexec,bat, config.sys etc. My old music directory is there too, but no 'windows' directory. The folder was very 'flaky' under Linpus Lite & kept hanging.

When I put the drive back into my ubuntu machine, it is indeed shown there as 'x', but contains only one file "pagefile.sys" & has 85gb of free space.
No music directory & no autoexec.bat etc etc.

Curioser & curioser...