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160 GB HD? Gone?

Asked by Harry Tothill

Hello

I had an old desktop computer running Windows XP. It originally had a 40 GB hard drive, but after having it for a few years, we decided that that wasn enough space, so we had another 160 GB hard drive added on. This worked fine for a few years, but eventually it became too slow and clogged up with viruses etc, so I decided to change to Ubuntu.

I downloaded 10.04 LTS, and installed it, wiping everything on the old hard drive.

Now, we have only 40 GB of hard drive space on the computer. It seems to me that Ubuntu has not yet "made contact" with the 160 GB hard drive, and so we are only able to use the 40 GB one?

As you can probably tell, I know next to nothing about Ubuntu and computers.

Thanks

Harry

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

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Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal

Copy and paste the row below, then press enter:

sudo fdisk -l

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Copy from terminal the result and paste below...

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Harry Tothill (h-tothill-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

I get:

Disk /dev/sda: 40.1 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a31c8

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4709 37819392 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4709 4871 1299457 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4709 4871 1299456 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Hope this helps

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

> I downloaded 10.04 LTS, and installed it, wiping everything on the old hard drive

So during the installation procedure the 160GB was recognized?
Did you format the hd and choose filesystem ext4?

In case deactivate dmraid.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#Dmraid%20active%20by%20default%20on%20Desktop%20CD

http://newyork.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8212948

Test BIOS settings e.g. SATA, IDE.

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David Mikeska (drtechno) said : 		#4

see if libntfs10, ntfsprogs, ntfs-3g, libntfs-3g75, gvfs-fuse is installed (synaptic package manager)

also you might have problems reading partitions if your windows made the partition dynamic during its disk initialition process when you first instlled the newer hard drive. Fuse would have issues reading them as the partition table index was stored on the master (boot hard drive ) that the hard drive was dynamically added.

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