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codfishy
January 15th, 2009, 01:07 AM
Okay. I successfully installed Ubuntu for the very first time about 3 hours ago.

I installed 8.04, and I will upgrade to 8.10 when I have the chance to.

There is one MAJOR problem though: Ubuntu cannot use the SATA (500GB) drive I just bought. It reads it, as it shows it as "SCSI Drive".
I also have another problem, where Ubuntu can read the drive Windows XP is on. It says "unable to mount location" and under it says "can't mount file".

So these are my questions:

1. How can I get my Ubuntu(and Windows XP) to read the 500 GB Drive so that I can use both OS's to see the same things I save in the Drive? Will I need to create a partition in Windows?

2. Can I get Ubuntu to not display the Drive my XP is on? I just don't want to see the drive since I'm not gonig to be using it.

Thanks.

taurus
January 15th, 2009, 01:14 AM
Before you can use the new drive, 500GB, you first need to create a partition (probably /dev/sdb1) and format it, creating a filesystem.

What are the outputs of these commands from a terminal?

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

sudo fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab
df -h

codfishy
January 15th, 2009, 01:44 AM
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x71f88b33

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x57a97cd1

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 16709 134215011 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 16710 19457 22073310 83 Linux


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda2
UUID=1ac415fd-428b-4c67-aa69-dc68c54bdb9a / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0


Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 21G 2.1G 18G 11% /
varrun 1014M 100K 1014M 1% /var/run
varlock 1014M 0 1014M 0% /var/lock
udev 1014M 48K 1014M 1% /dev
devshm 1014M 136K 1014M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1014M 38M 976M 4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon 21G 2.1G 18G 11% /home/username/.gvfs
/dev/hda1 128G 107G 22G 84% /media/disk