Ubuntu :: Accessing File System On Internal Hard Drive In 11.04

Jul 14, 2011

when I load into Ubuntu 11.04 from my USB drive, why can't I access the files on my internal hard drive? I mount the drive but I cannot see any of the music, videos or documents contained on that drive (which is also an Ubuntu 11.04 drive). I was wondering so I could copy those files onto my external hard drive and reinstall since my Ubuntu crashed.

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'hdd3' will refer to the hard drive of machine1 (that has the static IP of 192.168.0.3).
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Code:
dmesg | tail
[ 292.424199] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK

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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x826d56f6

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 26 208813+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 27 1958 15518790 83 Linux

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Code:
dmesg | tail
[ 292.424199] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[ 292.424208] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 65
[ 292.424456] EXT4-fs (sdb1): unable to read superblock
[ 298.348591] DRS: unkown mode,default use 11N 1S AP
[ 298.348602] DRS: unkown mode (SupRateLen=8, ExtRateLen=4, MCSSet[0]=0x0, MCSSet[1]=0x0)
[ 301.371878] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 1(1) BSS returned, data->length = 80
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[ 306.211543] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
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I can not use disks

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I can not use an external hard drive because that's what I'm running suse off of.

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Something like it cannot locate these two files I'm assuming it needs to boot. If anyone finds this relevant I'll retry it and post the files its missing.

I've been searching for awhile and can't find any threads that can solve my problem. From other threads, however, I have noticed that I should probably include my menu.lst, listed below

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I have also ran the boot info script and received the RESULTS.txt file it generates. Listed below

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