View hard drive from Ubuntu

Craig321 · 6 Feb 2006 at 19:10

Hi,

I plugged a second hard drive into an Ubuntu PC and it's noticed it etc.

So I went into the disk manager but it says there aren't any partitions on it which is true. And I can't get into the HDD. There is already stuff on here that I want to just view without messing around with formatting it etc. Is there any way I can do this please?

Thanks
Craig.

Burbleflop · 6 Feb 2006 at 22:48

If there aren't any partitions on there (as you said) then there can't be any data on it.

Run fdisk on the disc and it'll let you view the partition table to check.

Craig321 · 7 Feb 2006 at 01:27

I can view the hard drive perfectly in Windows. :S
And I'm not able to do fdisk on any of the disks for some reason

Burbleflop · 7 Feb 2006 at 07:31

If it works in Windows then there is at least one partition there - you can't use an unpartitioned hard disc.

When you say you can't use fdisk, do you get an error?

M0KUJ1N · 7 Feb 2006 at 09:35

under linux you have to mount the drive first before you can read/write/do anything with it.

what output does sudo /sbin/fdisk -l give you? This should list any possible partitions on the drive and their sizes.

Craig321 · 7 Feb 2006 at 15:54

# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdc: 6448 MB, 6448619520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 747 6000246 83 Linux
/dev/hdc2 748 784 297202+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdc5 748 784 297171 82 Linux swap / Solaris

It's not listing the 60gb for some reason ><

I meant no partitions as in I haven't made any since I last formatted, so there's just the main one which is working.

LostCorpse · 7 Feb 2006 at 16:20

It doesn't look as if its mounted from your last post.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=672085

sudo mkidir /media/hdc6
sudo mount /dev/hdc /media/hdc6

Try above. I'm not Linux guro so someone will have a better idea than me.

M0KUJ1N · 7 Feb 2006 at 19:48

Craig321 said:
# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdc: 6448 MB, 6448619520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 747 6000246 83 Linux
/dev/hdc2 748 784 297202+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdc5 748 784 297171 82 Linux swap / Solaris

It's not listing the 60gb for some reason ><

I meant no partitions as in I haven't made any since I last formatted, so there's just the main one which is working.

OK, this looks like it hasn't been detected by linux at all (and you cant mount it if it aint detected!)

Couple of quick questions- if you are using SATA is the module for your controller loaded? Or if you are using PATA/SCSI, are your jumper settings correct?

Craig321 · 8 Feb 2006 at 04:44

Ive got it on IDE with no jumper, it's on the slave part of the IDE cable so it set as slave. Maybe I need the jumper back in on slave? Although I don't see why.

Craig321 · 10 Feb 2006 at 12:42

Bump

|Ric| · 10 Feb 2006 at 17:39

i would check the jumper settings, I'm sure no jumper is normally master (or master only)

whitecrook · 10 Feb 2006 at 19:15

I usually use 80 pin cables and CS (cable select) on my drives. Then there's no need to mess about with jumpers. (usually)

|Ric| · 10 Feb 2006 at 19:28

if jumpers are an issue check it in the bios?

is windows running on another machine (obviously if it worked from windows and its the same machine it can't be drivers

)

Craig321 · 11 Feb 2006 at 01:10

BIOS might not be set to auto or something, I will check and post back here.

Craig.

Craig321 · 11 Feb 2006 at 01:58

OK, I got the BIOS to recognise it, but then when I try boot Linux it just says invalid partition table. I made sure the drive I just plugged in was on slave, the other's on master. Any idea what's wrong please?

Craig.