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Mark W
September 7th, 2008, 05:48 AM
Since installing the latest Kubuntu version, I cannot access either of my external IDE hard drives. Surely both of them cant have failed at the same time.

I read a previous thread and installed GParted and ran sudo blkid & sudo blkid, output below: (NOTE, i have 2 internal hard drives and it recognizes these 2 drives ok, all drives are 160 GB)

sudo blkid

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe197e197

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 12748 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 12749 19456 53882010 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 12749 19456 53881978+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4b0c4b0c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9585 76991481 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 9586 19457 79296840 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 9586 14265 37592068+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 19050 19457 3277228+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb7 14266 18847 36804883+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 18848 19049 1622533+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdg: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbaa3baa3

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System




sudo blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="2EA07F37A07F049D" LABEL="IDE160C" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="DE60B07860B058CB" LABEL="IDE160D" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="3E04CCDC04CC9873" LABEL="SATA160XP" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="441c78e5-ff34-4bcd-a889-e6aef44e7a79" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb6: TYPE="swap" UUID="b3479c5a-5d3e-4af6-8dd9-d1c62873b398"
/dev/sdb7: UUID="4762d62a-073c-4b13-9449-0318e56e23a9" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb8: TYPE="swap" UUID="c75a6f6b-04de-492b-8292-7329ddb91e8a"

Pumalite
September 7th, 2008, 01:30 PM
If your extenal is sdg; maybe it needs to be formated o you may have to explore it with rescuecd;
http://www.sysresccd.org/Download