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.

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

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.

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

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.