Hardware :: Cant Access Second Hard Drive Partition?
Oct 20, 2010
OK so not long ago i updated my pc to the latest version of Ubuntu, but it ran so slowly that i reinstalled a previous version (9.04). I wasnt too bothered at the time as i had two hard disks in my machine, one which help programs and the os etc (an IDE), the other larger (SATA) one for all my media.
However when i booted up my computer after the reinstall, my second HD was no where to be found. So i tried
mount /dev/sda /media/HD2
And that didnt work, i even tried putting it into the fstab file and that didnt work either. So i had a look at the hard drive details via GParted, and it was telling me it was unallocated. Weird.
So next on the list was testdisk. I ran test disk once using the default option file type of 'Intel' when analysis the disk and it told me there were no partitions - same again when i did a deeper search. I tried analysing the disk again but this time i chose 'None' as the filetype, and this time it came back with a possible partition. But when i tried to view the files on the partition i simply got the following message
Cant open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged
I really would love any help for this problem. Mainly the videos and music are replaceable, BUT the biggest loss would be a lot of personal photos.
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May 2, 2010
Recently my laptop broke down and wont start up. I'm currently trying to recover my files to my mac with an IDE to USB cable. It recognized my windows partition fine and I was able to get all my files off of that, but the majority of my stuff is on the ext4 partition that I have on it. Does anyone know how to access the ubuntu partition of this hard drive from my mac?
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Mar 16, 2010
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Also, even if I manage to move it, will Windows still work on the new drive in a larger partition? I've had this laptop for quite a while, and I've lost the recovery discs that came with it a long time ago. I also have a lot of software without CDs to reinstall them with. This makes not reinstalling Windows a high priority.
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Mar 23, 2010
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Jun 22, 2011
I installed Redhat Enterprise 3 on one of my servers. In my haste I didn't properly partition both Hard Drives and only properly partitioned one of them. Thus now I have
/dev/sdb1 478711768 137858256 316536328 31% /
/dev/sda1 101089 15346 80524 17% /boot
Where /dev/sda1 is actually a 80 GB hard drive. Is there anyway I can safely and easily repartition the unpartitioned space without causing a huge mess? I have a very important Oracle database on /dev/sdb1 and thus I want to be able to back it up on the second disk. I can create a partition on that drive?
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Oct 4, 2010
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My question is simply this: Is there a way I can poll the USB port and see if I can see the drive from a command line? The File Explorer isn't even seeing the drive anymore either. I'm not savvy enough with Linux to know if there is another way to see if I can rescue the data on the drive.
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May 8, 2010
My secondary disk drive is only 80GB but it's 80GB that I might as well use. How do I access it?I would like to do the same for this older, small harddisk but don't know what to do with vgscan --mknodes, vgchange -ay or lvscan.(BTW, hdb1 is where my main system boots from so I don't want to mess with that partition. Don't ask....it's ugly)
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Sep 21, 2009
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Feb 28, 2011
I have a big problem with my ubuntu linux.. last night i was trying to execute a windows aplicacion (with wine).. suddenly the pc turned off.. later i turned it on but i couldnt enter to ubuntu... now i want to format my pc but i need to save some files on my flash drive.. because i cannot enter to ubuntu so i can save those files.. I used the Live CD, actually im using the live cd right now... the problem is that i dont know how to acces to my hard drive so i can save those files. every time I try to acces, this error appears...
Unable to Mount Location
DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed: An operation is already pending
I tried with right click>Mount... but this error appears..
Unable to Mount Location
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May 16, 2011
Well I screwed up and removed Ubuntu OS from my hard drive. Now I cannot access any partition on the HD (I had set up several partitions). I also can not install a new version of Ubuntu on the root partition. I have tried to doctor it with "Disk Utility" and "GParted" without success. I took the HD out of the tower and hooked it up externally to my laptop and the HD is not recognised by my laptop. None of the partitions are recognised. I have some files that I would like to recover, but not many as it was a new installation. The Ubuntu install routine, Disk Utility each see the size, number of blocks and something else of each partition but not the names or other data.
I was wondering if any one had any suggestions as to how to repair or restore the HD?
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I have an existing install of 10.4 on a 320 GB hard drive without home in it's own partition. I have a new 500GB hard drive that I want to install 10.10 on. After installing 10.10 and making /Home on it's own partition can I copy the entire old home folder including the hidden files to the new home partition on the new hard drive so that all of my programs and files are saved. I don't have enough room left on the old hard drive to create and copy home to a new partition. Am I going about this the right way or do I need to rethink and do some kind of backup restore on the new hard drive or some other way. I am trying to accomplish this so that in the future I can install a clean copy of Ubuntu when they are released without losing my current settings and files. I started out with 7.10 but my learning curve is slow.
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Jan 4, 2011
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I understand the boot loader will be affected although I'm unsure how. I have Gparted installed. I have looked at the man page for the dd command although I don't know how it would work in my particular example. I have also looked at Clonezilla although I don't know if this is appropriate for what I want to do. I have read a few similar threads although I found some of them difficult to follow.
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I've got an old EIDE hard drive that used to be used for a dual-boot WinXP and Linux (not sure what version - either RH9 or FC1), and I'd like to pull some data off it. That computer died, and I reformatted the Windows partition, but left the Linux portion alone. My current Linux (FC10 + XP) computer uses a SATA hard drive, and I'd like to get the data from the old drive to the new one. I've connected the hard drive normally, jumpered as a slave drive. Linux now boots normally, but I can't access the older hard drive. I tried the techniques in the following thread: [url] and commented there (with more info), but I thought I would be more likely to get a response by starting a new thread.
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