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Lost a hard drive and no dual monitor with nvidia card

Asked by Paddy

When I installed Ubunto 8.04 I used the "Guided - use entire disk", and it installed on my second drive, and my original C drice has disappeared. Also, I am using an Nvidia graphics card, and I have a blank second monitor during running the program. The U bunto logo comes on when booting or shutting down, but not during computer operation.

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paddy1@paddy1-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
sudo: unable to resolve host paddy1-desktop
[sudo] password for paddy1:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe576e576

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9355 75144006 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9356 9732 3028252+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 9356 9732 3028221 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0d161588

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 14946 120053713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1550dda4

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 14946 120053713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
paddy1@paddy1-desktop:~$ cat /etc/mtab
/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
lrm /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/paddy1/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=paddy1 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/DRV5_VOL1 fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8,user=paddy1 0 0
paddy1@paddy1-desktop:~$

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#1

you can use the nvidia-settings tool (type gksudo nvidia-settings in a terminal) to configure your duel monitor setup.

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Paddy (paddy1) said : 		#2

Nothing is coming up in terminal, just dropped down 1 line and is blank

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hardcorelinux (hardcorelinux) said : 		#3

may be:sudo: unable to resolve host paddy1-desktop
has something do with this?
sda and sdb are listed your "C" drive(sdb1) is not in fstab, so not "seen"?

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