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manishkumar
July 18th, 2010, 03:59 PM
hello evry1
m new to linux. i had installed ububtu 10.04 lts on my laptop, where windows xp was installed. in windows i had 4 drives(c,d,e,f). since i installed ubuntu i lost my all drives. it only shows a combined file system.
please help i hv searched on net but all in vain.
:-(

23dornot23d
July 18th, 2010, 04:02 PM
What option did you choose when installing linux ..... free space or side by side .....

If you chose use the whole disk ..... it uses the whole disk.

c,d,e,f may only be partitions on one drive ?

How many physical drives do you have too ?

You have posted again ,,,, POST (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1533688) ....

cavalier911
July 18th, 2010, 04:03 PM
See this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1529824

manishkumar
July 18th, 2010, 04:09 PM
when installing linux ..... i choose free space
i had 4 physical drives. c(windows was installed in it), d, e, f
but now it shows 1 file system of 250gb(hard disk size).
i dont want to lost my data in other drives.
please help.

manishkumar
July 18th, 2010, 04:15 PM
thanks.
but it seems my prob is different. its not dual boot.
my 4 drives are combined to 1 as it shows in ubuntu.
i thought it will just over rite windows in c drive and all drives will be intact.
when i type sudo fdisk -l it showsthis
0x000203e3

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 29653 238182400 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 29653 30402 6013953 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 29653 30402 6013952 82 Linux swap / Solaris

23dornot23d
July 18th, 2010, 05:24 PM
What do you see when you type

df

in at the console ?

What you have posted above looks like you have used 3 parts of the first drive,




Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 29653 238182400 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 29653 30402 6013953 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 29653 30402 6013952 82 Linux swap / Solaris
sda hard drive for linux


There should be a sda3 and a sda4 somewhere in the extended partition ?

Information for df - The command df (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Df_%28Unix%29)
or use (df -h) it gives a more readable output ,,,,,

df -h

Also with 4 drives you should see something like this .....

sda sdb sdc sdd