I have a dual boot computer non-UEFI BIOS running Windows Vista and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The computer has two hard drives; 1 tb WD (shows as /dev/sdb) that contains both Vista and Ubuntu. The data on /dev/sdb in the ntfs file system is fully accessible in Ubuntu. The other is a 3 TB Hitachi drive formatted as NTFS that contains mainly DVD movies in ISO form. When I boot into Ubuntu the 3TB drive is visible as a 3 TB drive as /dev/sda. The problem is that none of the data on the drive is visible in Ubuntu and therefore cannot be mounted.
In Vista the drive works as expected; all 3 TB are visible. Thinking that it might be partition size problem, I shrunk the drive down to a 2.2 TB and a 500 GB drive. This did nothing as Ubuntu still sees the drive as a single 3 TB drive. Ubuntu seems to be unable to view the partition information. This is the problem. The drive shows up in Disk Management as Disk 0, Basic, and healthy with two primary partitions.
I could format the drive in Ubuntu, but this would mean I would loose the ~1.5 Tb of files stored on the drive. I'm hoping to avoid this!
My question is thus: is there a way to make the file system on the 3 TB drive visible (non-destructively) to Ubuntu
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