cant find harddrives

[relaxedcrazyman]

hello, i am brand new to ubuntu. i installed it with vista already installed. i cant find access to any of my harddrives except my external. it doesnt show the drive it was installed on either. any help would be much appreciated.

[oldos2er]

hello, i am brand new to ubuntu. i installed it with vista already installed. i cant find access to any of my harddrives except my external. it doesnt show the drive it was installed on either. any help would be much appreciated.

In Ubuntu, go to Places, Computer, Filesystem. This will be your Ubuntu partition (assuming you placed /root, /boot, and /home in a single partition). If you don't see any other partitions e.g. "100 GB Media", we can help you mount them so they show up in Nautilus.

[relaxedcrazyman]

In Ubuntu, go to Places, Computer, Filesystem. This will be your Ubuntu partition (assuming you placed /root, /boot, and /home in a single partition). If you don't see any other partitions e.g. "100 GB Media", we can help you mount them so they show up in Nautilus.

There are no other partitions. i wanted it so that the files that i transfer over on cd or dvd can be saved on my other internal harddrive which have a lot more space available.

[Pumalite]

Get Gparted Live CD and post a screenshot:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
Burn to disk and boot from it.

[relaxedcrazyman]

Get Gparted Live CD and post a screenshot:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
Burn to disk and boot from it.

my friend had showed me this earlier, but could not make sense of it...
this is the drive ubuntu is installed on...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3071/2551994155_9a854c7a7e_o.png


this is the drive i want to use for saving files and stuff. but i dont want to erase what is already on it

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3279/2552821732_122dccafa0_o.png

[Pumalite]

Your first picture shows only Windows. Your second drive appears empty. Ubuntu is nowhere to be seen.

[relaxedcrazyman]

Your first picture shows only Windows. Your second drive appears empty. Ubuntu is nowhere to be seen.

that is how new i am to all of this, what should i do to present information you can use.

[Pumalite]

Use the Gparted Live CD ande not the gparted that comes with Ubuntu. Post a new screenshot.

[relaxedcrazyman]

Use the Gparted Live CD ande not the gparted that comes with Ubuntu. Post a new screenshot.

When i booted from the disc i didnt know what to do, but this is what the screen said:

GNU GRUB version 0.97 (639k lower/3404388k upper memory)

then there was a command prompt, no idea what to enter...


EDIT: i downloaded a earlier version of it and it worked. i took a screenshot, but when i started up ubuntu again, i could not find the screenshot in the 'root' directory.

[Pumalite]

Try version Gparted-Live-0.3.7-2.iso
At the boot prompt; press 'Enter'

[relaxedcrazyman]

i just noticed that i have been getting this error from windows boot manager right after i select to run ubuntu:

Warning: Unrecognized partition table for drive 81. Please rebuild it using a Microsoft-compatable FDISK tool(err=4)


and while i was using the Gparted i must have done something, because when i try and run Ubuntu it starts then this comes up:

BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-inShell (ash)

and it is command prompt

[Pumalite]

Use rescuecd to check your drive and fix your partition table if you really need to:
http://www.sysresccd.org/Download

[relaxedcrazyman]

i have tried everything to get a new screen shot, but i just can not get it to work for me. is there any other way i can present the information that you need? and what information would that be?

[Pumalite]

Post:
sudo fdisk -lu

[relaxedcrazyman]

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xff2db8be

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 312578047 156288000 7 HPFS/NTFS

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60563 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3ec6494e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 4294967295 2147483647+ ee EFI GPT

Disk /dev/sdc: 2048 MB, 2048729600 bytes
64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 992 cylinders, total 4001425 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 245 3999743 1999749+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdd: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders, total 490234752 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd8384a4c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 63 490223474 245111706 7 HPFS/NTFS

[Pumalite]

This is your problem:
'WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60563 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3ec6494e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 4294967295 2147483647+ ee EFI GPT

What kind of drive is this or how did it get that way?

[relaxedcrazyman]

it is an internal drive. i have no idea how it got any way. bought it installed it, no problems since. i really dont even know what that error is

[Pumalite]

I don't either. What do you have in that drive?

[relaxedcrazyman]

just a bunch of movies and tv shows. i think i remember when i first got it, that i had to make it a dynamic disk to get it to work, but i dont even know what that means.

[Pumalite]

If you have and external drive; save all that, and use gparted to format the drive ext3. Then restore your stuff.

[relaxedcrazyman]

that may take some time, i will probably have to buy another external harddrive, or perhaps another internal (dont have enough space to back it all up) it may be 2 weeks before that happens, if i am still having similar problems, should i post in this thread or create a new one?

[Pumalite]

You can continue this thread later if you want. If not I; there will be many here to help you.