Not recognizing second hard drive

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Installed ubunto 8.04. It recognized my second hard drive, a maxtor 120 GIG h/d, but after installing Ubunto, it disappeared. Any suggestions to get it back?

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said :
#1

Please post the outputs of:-
sudo fdisk -l
and
cat /etc/mtab

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arekkusu (arekkusu-r) said :
#2

Does the hard drive appear in Places > Computer ?
If yes can you mount (open) it ?

Do you know how your harddrive is partitioned ?

You might want install Gparted. Its a Partition Editor. (application > add/remove)
I will help you view your partition (and also modify them if necessary)

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Paddy (paddy1) said :
#3

Ubunto actually installed on my second hard drive, so the main hard drive disappeared. Also, I am having trouble with nvidia second display. I configured it, but it is blank

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said :
#4

Can you please post the outputs of the commands I've given previously, with that we can try and determine exactly what the problem could be.

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Paddy (paddy1) said :
#5

Information requested

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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Best Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said :
#6

I am assuming that the drive in question is sdb1, do this:-
sudo mkdir /media/force && sudo ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/force

Post any errors you receive.

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Paddy (paddy1) said :
#7

Thanks Pramod Dematagoda, that solved my question.