Can't find 2nd hard drive.

[Florida Roadkill]

I recently installed Ubuntu and am trying to find my data. I understand drives are not assigned letters. My hard drive has one partition. The drive which has XP on it and my "core" programs was recognized. I am trying to find the other drive which contains all of my documents and media.

I have found "Home" and it is not there. So I have done some searches for finding your hard drives. I haven't found anything that applies well or that I understand.

I ran some codes but I don't understand what I am doing to a) feel entirely comfortably typing in something that could ruin everything 2) understand the results.

Thank you to all in advance and even if you can't help the problem maybe you can tell me how to not sound like a such a noob.

[iaculallad]

Try posting whatever displays when you issue the following command in your terminal so we could locate of what drives needs to be mounted in order for you to access your files:


sudo fdisk -l

and


sudo blkid

[Florida Roadkill]

Sorry I didn't respond sooner. Thank you for your help.

Here are my results from the first command, 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: 0xe150e150

And here is what came up after the second command, sudo blkid

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2551 19457 135805477+ 7 HPFS/NTFS


/dev/sda1: UUID="3C2C9BA62C9B5A2A" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="6A34398034395075" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/loop0: UUID="d45d36e8-411b-4df3-913b-3b3cda2a2f41" TYPE="ext3"

While I don't know what everything means, do the results form the second command mean that because it sees 2 starts and 2 ends, it knows there is a partition?

[|Eric|]

you are running from CD ?

also post a "lshw -C disk"

[Florida Roadkill]

I installed from the Live CD. I ran your command and this is what I came up with:

*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST3160815A
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 3.AA
serial: 9RA1F5YL
size: 149GiB (160GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=e150e150
*-cdrom:0
description: DVD reader
product: DVD-ROM DDU1612
vendor: SONY
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: DYS3
capabilities: removable audio dvd
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=open
*-cdrom:1
description: DVD writer
product: DVDRW SOHW-812S
vendor: LITE-ON
physical id: 0.1.0
bus info: scsi@1:0.1.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom1
logical name: /dev/dvd1
logical name: /dev/scd1
logical name: /dev/sr1
version: US0F
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=open

Hopefully, we are getting somewhere. I have some done some more searches and I can't find anything thats in basic enough language to understand the consequences of what I am doing or to interpret the output. I am so new to Ubuntu I still have the afterbirth on me. Thanks again.

[Florida Roadkill]

I am still struggling with this issue as all the files I use on a daily basis cannot be found in Ubuntu, so <gasp> I continue to use Windows.

In all other respects I have been impressed with this OS so much. It's free, support is everywhere, and I think the elitist status for programmer people only has been removed and it has become much more accessible and friendly to the average user. Well Done!!

[iaculallad]

You're problem seems like you cannot access your NTFS drives in Ubuntu? To solve that problem, we will have to edit your fstab file and configure those drives to automount at startup. From there, you could start searching for your files.

-Enter your terminal and issue the following commands below-

Create your mount points:


sudo mkdir /media/NTFSDrive_1
sudo mkdir /media/NTFSDrive_2


Next, open and edit the contents of the fstab file:


gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

When opened, append the line of texts below on the last part of the file.


UUID=3C2C9BA62C9B5A2A /media/NTFSDrive_1 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0
UUID=6A34398034395075 /media/NTFSDrive_2 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0


And lastly, Save and Close the file. On your terminal again:


sudo mount -a

Then try searching for your files from the mounted NTFS drives.

[Florida Roadkill]

Wow, thank you so much! I am going to go ahead and try that now and I will get back to everyone with the results.

[|Eric|]

do a "df" it will show mounted partitions(HD as you call them)


i would agree with the fellow above your second partition is most likely not mounted

the / entry of df comand is where your linux is at
for example:

~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 38345904 15654868 20743160 44% /
varrun 1031556 96 1031460 1% /var/run
varlock 1031556 0 1031556 0% /var/lock
udev 1031556 96 1031460 1% /dev
devshm 1031556 0 1031556 0% /dev/shm


here you can see that my / (linux) is mounted from the partition /dev/sda1
you will also see your second partition if its mounted.

[Florida Roadkill]

OK, So I went ahead and successfully entered all the codes from iaculallad post. When I went back into Places > Desktop I was still presented with the same information on the left-hand side. Only one hard drive. So, maybe I am having a brain fart, but is there somewhere else to look for mounted drives? I'm thinking there has to be, but I am too dense to find it.

And in response to Eric's post, I found the following output with the df command:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/host/ubuntu/disks/root.disk
13563852 2664564 10215696 21% /
varrun 517684 104 517580 1% /var/run
varlock 517684 0 517684 0% /var/lock
udev 517684 44 517640 1% /dev
devshm 517684 48 517636 1% /dev/shm
lrm 517684 39760 477924 8% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon 13563852 2664564 10215696 21% /home/blue/.gvfs
/dev/sda1 20482840 7728772 12754068 38% /media/disk
/dev/sda1 20482840 7728772 12754068 38% /media/NTFSDrive_1
/dev/sda2 135805476 31575728 104229748 24% /media/NTFSDrive_2


So, I'm not quite sure where this leaves me, but I am going to look into more. Now that I am starting to use and I think understand some commands, I might get somewhere with this. Thanks again!

[|Eric|]

ok so your drives are mouted correcly (yes!)

you will find your stuff in the "file system" drive in the media -> NTFS_DRIVE2

you dont have the location on your desktop that is ok its just a shortcut

[Florida Roadkill]

Problem Solved! I found everything I have been looking for.

Now, that I got it, what's the best way to make a shortcut that will appear on my desktop or at least, (but hopefully both) appear on the left-hand side of my file browser under Places?

Thank you so much.

[Florida Roadkill]

Got a link just below my places now, so that will save me a few steps. Still a little confused about making a "short-cut" or launcher on the desktop, but there are other threads to learn about that.