Acessing second hard drive partitioned as second installation

[Adsrhodes]

Hi,

I Recently had a bit of trouble that cropped up while updating from 7.10 to 8.04. So I could get onto the web and get advice to solve the problem (which I did, thanks everyone!) I plugged in an old SATA 80Gb drive and installed a completely fresh copy of Ubuntu 7.10, fir internet and the like. I have decided to keep it on there, just in case I mess up again!

However, in both of my installations of Ubuntu, I cannot access the other's drive at all. I simply get a permissions denied message. Any ideas how I can fix this?

[El King]

is it mounted or not ?!
open terminal and write

sudo fdisk -l
and post back results

[Adsrhodes]

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0008d376

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 59572 478512058+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 59573 60801 9871942+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 59573 60801 9871911 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ba408

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9553 76734441 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 9554 9964 3301357+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 9554 9964 3301326 82 Linux swap / Solaris


When I right click on the second drive, it offers an option to mount, but I again get a permission denied pop up.