Is my data lost? Installed Linux, no longer can I access my hard drives.

[Ironkey]

Here's the story -

I installed Linux on my Y drive, and all went well until I tried to boot into XP again. I can't access or install an operating system to my other three hard drives, C, X, and Z.

I think that during the install my hard drives were changed to something other then NTFS, but Linux won't access them either.

When I use my Windows XP or Windows 7 disc, it says the drive has 0mb free, and it can't install until I delete the partition, then reformat. I don't want to do this obviously, because I don't want to format all of my data.

When I go to Places > My Computer it lists my CD drive, Filesystem, and the Y drive. It doesn't show my other three hard drives.

Under Palimpsest Disk Utility I can see my other three drives, but I can't access the data on them yet.

Help!

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Lets check Partition Structure of your Hard disk(s) first.
Open Terminal and execute this

su -
/lspci/fdisk -l
df -h

Post output here.

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

[Ironkey]

Thank you for your interest in my problem - here is what you asked for -

 [liveuser@localhost ~]$ su -
[root@localhost ~]# /lspci/fdisk -l
-bash: /lspci/fdisk: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/live-rw   3.0G  2.2G  827M  73% /
tmpfs                 1.4G  624K  1.4G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sr0              689M  689M     0 100% /mnt/live
varcacheyum           1.4G     0  1.4G   0% /var/cache/yum
/tmp                  1.4G   12K  1.4G   1% /tmp
vartmp                1.4G     0  1.4G   0% /var/tmp
[root@localhost ~]# 
  

And I have this information as well -

 To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
 
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
 
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00ca89b7
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        9730    78148608    7  HPFS/NTFS
 
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3de4bf44
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       60801   488384001   17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS
 
Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x76397639
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1       60801   488384001   8e  Linux LVM
 
Disk /dev/sdd: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x32dbca08
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1               1       60801   488384001   8e  Linux LVM
 
Disk /dev/sde: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10337 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf03b4104
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sde1               1       10338    78147584    7  HPFS/NTFS
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ 
  

[devils casper]

Two of your Hard disks ( 500GB both ) have been formatted in Linux Filesystem, LVM. Three Hard disks have NTFS filesystems but one the disk has hidden NTFS Partition.

Lets mount partitions having NTFS and check data. Open Terminal and execute this

su -
cd /media
mkdir sda1 sdb1 sde1
mount -t ntfs-3g  /dev/sda1  /media/sda1  -o defaults,umask=0
mount -t ntfs-3g  /dev/sdb1  /media/sdb1  -o defaults,umask=0
mount -t ntfs-3g  /dev/sde1  /media/sde1  -o defaults,umask=0

Check sda1, sdb1 and sde1 folders in /media folder.