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Cant see second harddrive

Asked by Steve F

Just installed xubuntu 8.04 I can't see my second harddrive with nfts and fat32 partions on it, no problem when I boot windows from grub. So the actual drive is ok.

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Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33) said : 		#1

Hello Steve,

Could you type in a Terminal (menu Applications > Accessories > Terminal) the command "ls /dev/sd*" (without any storage device plugged on usb or firewire please) and paste here it's output ?

It should show the address of storage devices and partitions detected, and help us to solve your problem.

Another question : Do you see them in the left column of Nautilus (File Manager) ?

Have a nice day.

--kalon33

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

You say...
"I can't see my second harddrive with nfts and fat32 partions on it, no problem when I boot windows from grub. So the actual drive is ok."

Not so sure...

Please make sure you Windows partition have no errors on it.

Booting in Windows force an a complete hard disk check.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265
Then reboot again in Windows and make a clean shutdown.

Be sure to boot in Windows twice and to get a clear Windows shutdown.

Hope this helps

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Steve F (stephen-flint59) said : 		#3

Thanks for the answers. Here is the info
steve@steve-office:~$ ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb2
/dev/sda1 /dev/sda5 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb5

I cant see them in file manager

But if I boot from a live cd they both hard drives show up.

Regards Steve

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Steve F (stephen-flint59) said : 		#4

I switch to ubuntu everything now works ok
steve