accessing hard drive

Asked by abdul kalam azad

I m very thankful to previous help now I have another problem please help me

I have 160GB hard disk in that I made 6 partitions in that I first installed windows 7 operating system
after that I installed Ubuntu 10.10 inside windows. Then I able to access only two partitions only the other partitions are
not shown by system. how to access them because those partitions has some important data .

thanking you,

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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Please boot entirely from Ubuntu live install cd and select to try Ubuntu try to access to your partitions from it...

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abdul kalam azad (azadaks) said :
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sorry that's not worked because it showing like as entire hard disk as only 3 partitions one is dev/sda of 100MB and dev/sda1 of 32GB and dev/sda2 of reaming 124GB under external
thank you for your valuable effort to fix this problem

please keep trying thank you very much

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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If you are installed Ubuntu using wubi is better to refer to Wubi group...
i move this question under Wubi now...

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bcbc (bcbc) said :
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What's the output of "sudo fdisk -l" (lower case -L)
What's the output of "sudo blkid"

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abdul kalam azad (azadaks) said :
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thank you sir , you asked more information regarding this problem so I
am seding to you
please solve this problem for me .

                thanking you sir,

azad@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for azad:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 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: 0xe1a1e1a1

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1 992+ 42 SFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 * 1 13 102400 42 SFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 13 4178 33452032 42 SFS
/dev/sda4 4178 19458 122734424 42 SFS
azad@ubuntu:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/loop0: UUID="07b7a992-f356-4bd8-8f34-81a74793f506" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda1: UUID="C23EFA393EFA2657" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="A8441497441469F8" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="LINUX&GAMES" UUID="8E7E72787E7258C3" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda4: LABEL="SONGS&DOCUMENT" UUID="ACB09EC2B09E9306" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="MOVIES" UUID="E4FE8C3FFE8C0C4C" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="EDUCATION&SOFTWARES" UUID="6EC472BDC47286DD" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="PERSONEL" UUID="A628914228911283" TYPE="ntfs"
azad@ubuntu:~$

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bcbc (bcbc) said :
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You've created dynamic drives under Windows. If you look at the fdisk output (which uses the MBR partition table) it can only see 4 partitions and they're all marked SFS.
BLKID doesn't seem to have a problem identifying them... but it uses a different technique than fdisk.

I'd say it's extremely dangerous to be running an OS that isn't aware of the underlying partitions. It works because the partition containing Wubi exists (that's visible to you under /host) and it can see the others that correspond to a physical partition in the MBR partition table, but it's not aware of the dynamic partitions on top of these.

So I'd stop using Wubi, and consider getting rid of dynamic partitions and instead create an extended partition and mutliple logical partitions within that. This is visible from both Windows and Linxu. Dynamic volumes are (as far as I know) entirely a Windows construct (proprietary) and don't play well with other OSes.
Alternatively maybe LVM can be seen by both Windows and Linux.

Hope that helps.

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