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Other hardisk partition missing

Asked by Lloyd Andrew

Hello guys, I'm new in Linux. I'm a Windows user but now I decided to use ubuntu and give it a try.

My problem is... I have 250GB of HD, partitioned into two (2) C: 80GB and D: 160GB approx. I installed Ubuntu into C: clean install, I totally erased XP on it... but I have files in drive D that I want to access... how can I do that, please explain in in layman's term since I'm totally new here... Thanks

Lloyd

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Slackjaw77 (alienresidents) said : 		#1

Hi Lloyd Andrew,

Can you please provide the output from the following command:
sudo fdisk -l

Once that information has been given, we can advise further.

Thanks.

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Lloyd Andrew (reissengradz) said : 		#2

Hi Slackjaw77

this is the result...

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 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: 0xce6dce6d

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 10200 81923072 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 10200 30402 162272256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
lloyd@lloyd-laptop:~$

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#3

You used the whole disk on installation, and so now you have not "D:" partition. Sorry.

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Lloyd Andrew (reissengradz) said : 		#4

OMG, that would mean I'll lose all my data in their...

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#5

Yes. If you really need them, you can try "testdisk" to recover some files.
In this case, make a bootable Ubuntu USB stick with persistent area, and boot only from this one, not the disk.

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Lloyd Andrew (reissengradz) said : 		#6

Thank you delance, actually what I did was reinstall my XP an then backup my D Drive.. And today I'm re-installing Ubuntu to practice more... Thanks again