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NEWBEE: I see my (Win)D: drive but not c:\- On live CD, I saw it. Now use Wupi. Thanks

Asked by Ray Turner

Under Live-Cd, Ubuntu 8.10, I could see and use all hard drives on my Vista machine. I want to get deeper into Linux and installed under Wupi (?) All is well except I cannot see the C:drive under "computer" (or anywhere else) I realize this is basic but would appreciate indulging a "Newbee"
Thanks

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Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha) said : 		#1

Your C drive might now have been mounted at boot time. Those settings are stored in a file called /etc /fstab. This file is read at boot time and according to this partitions are mounted.

First we need to find out the partitions on your systems, this can be found out by issuing a simple command
ls /dev/sda*

I am assuming the C: is named as sda1

Now create a directory using the command
sudo mkdir /media/sda1
and then mount this partition using the command
sudo mount -v /dev/sda1 /media/sda1

Commands may scare you a bit in beginning, but this is the shortcut and foolproof way of guiding..

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Ray Turner (rturner330) said : 		#2

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Subject: Re: [Question #41703]: NEWBEE: I see my (Win)D: drive but not c:\- On live CD, I saw it. Now use Wupi. Thanks

Your question #41703 on file-roller in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+question/41703

    Status: Open => Answered

Manish proposed the following answer:
Your C drive might now have been mounted at boot time. Those settings
are stored in a file called /etc /fstab. This file is read at boot time
and according to this partitions are mounted.

First we need to find out the partitions on your systems, this can be found out by issuing a simple command
ls /dev/sda*

I am assuming the C: is named as sda1-------->Trueshows sda, sda1, and sda3

Now create a directory using the command
sudo mkdir /media/sda1 ---------------------------->/medianow shows "sda1" with c::\files and folders
and then mount this partition using the command
sudo mount -v /dev/sda1 /media/sda1------------->responded with password request, assumed NTFS but browsing "COMPUTER" does not show sda1
                                                                       How can I determine it's there or did I screw up?? BTW, I sincerely appreciate you time, help

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Best Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha) said : 		#3

See its not necessary that all mounted partitions show up in "Computer", though it should show itself.
If you want to browse any partition it would be better if you go to the mount point. In this case /media/sda1 has some files already of C:, which means that sda1 is mounted and you dont need to mount it again. Simply browse it and do whatever changes you want to do....

I dont think you screwed up your system. Just check /etc/fstab and check whether there is an entry of /dev/sda1?

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Ray Turner (rturner330) said : 		#4

Thanks Manish, that solved my question.