bigpappajohn1984

I just did a fresh install of Jaunty Jackelope, and now my secondary internal IDE hard drive is not being recognized. It was working fine before I did this fresh install, but now it does not show up under places or under computer. S

Someone please help!!!!!

Nickos

Let us know the output.

bigpappajohn1984

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb18eee60

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9327 74919096 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9328 9729 3229065 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 9328 9729 3229033+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x28282828

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

htismaqe

So it's not that Ubuntu doesn't recognize your drive. It's there and it knows about it.

There's just nothing on it. Do you have another OS to boot to? And if so, can it see the filesystems on the HDD?

bigpappajohn1984

This is actually a secondary internal hd. But if I install this same hd into a machine running XP Pro, it show's all of my music and movies and vids that are on the hd. Why is Ubuntu showing there is nothing on it????

bigpappajohn1984

Actually I just tested that theory, the system running XP Pro no longer shows anything on this HD either. It must have gotten somehow formatted then. My next ? then is how would I format it to use with Ubuntu as a secondary internal HD

htismaqe

Before you format, you should check the disk out.

Given that you used to be able to see files in XP, and the output you got from Linux says that there's no valid partition table on the drive, it's possible that the partition table is damaged or corrupt, but all of your data is still there.

Since you mounted it in Windows previously, I'm going to assume that the drive had NTFS or FAT partitions on it, correct?

I can't post URL's because of my post count, but there's several resources out there. You might start at NTFS dot COM - just look under NTFS General Information > NTFS Recovery Concepts > Partition Recovery Concepts

bigpappajohn1984

Are you saying that Linux recognizes files are still on the drive? Or just suggesting to attempt to recover them before I perform an all out recovery method?

htismaqe

Yes, I'm suggesting that you try to repair the partition table prior to formatting the drive. There's no sense in losing all of your data - that should be an absolute last resort.

bigpappajohn1984

Is there a partition recovery program (preferably free) for Linux? The ones that I saw on that specific site were both pay, and for Windows.