i can`t open my hard drives in my laptop???

Little Programmer · 09-01-2008, 07:27 AM

hello all,

when i installed fedora 9, and pressing my hard drives

nothing happend " no partion opend " and no any warnning appeared !!

what is the problem here ?

have i mount the partions ?

if i ,, what is the steps ??

please help!!
thanx

ronlau9 · 09-01-2008, 07:53 AM

I am not sure what you mean ?
Is fedora installed or not ?
And if it is installed what do you use KDE or GNOME ?
Anyhow on both Gui there icon for all you drives eg partitions .
you need root privilege to mount them.

pixellany · 09-01-2008, 07:57 AM

Welcome to LQ!!

Did you first boot up using the live CD?

Are you saying that--during the install process--the installer could not find your "hard drives"? (Your laptop has more than one??!!)

First, reboot from live CD and see if you can see the hard drive(s). If it does not mount automatically, open a terminal and enter "/sbin/fdisk -l" Post the results here.

Little Programmer · 09-01-2008, 08:05 AM

ThanQ All,

Fedora is already installed in my laptop

and i can`t open my hard drives

i clicked double on my drives , no matter has happened

neither warnning nor anything

Little Programmer · 09-01-2008, 08:58 AM

plz help me
i wont erase fedora from my laptop
i tried ubuntu and it was simple
when i tried fedora
some problem appeared

ronlau9 · 09-01-2008, 09:09 AM

Was the install a total success ?
Did it ask you for a root password during install ?
When you click on the icon it should ask root password.

Little Programmer · 09-01-2008, 09:18 AM

yes it successfully installed
and i enterd password for root password during installtion

??

yancek · 09-01-2008, 10:15 AM

Let's see if I understand your post. You successfully installed Fedora 9 and now when you boot up and click on the desktop icon to access your information, nothing happens?? Have you ever been able to access anything on Fedora 9?

Little Programmer · 09-01-2008, 10:27 AM

every thing works well
but i cant open my hard drives - like " hda " || " sda " ,, whatever the name!!!

should i reinstall fedora if there is no solution?

michaelk · 09-01-2008, 10:36 AM

How many drives are connected to this computer? How are they formated?
Define what you mean by "double clicking on my drives?"

Little Programmer · 09-01-2008, 11:02 AM

i have one drive for vista
and two personal drives

the three are " ntfs " formated

and one ext3 for linux
and one swap for swap-linux

" double click " :: i mean when i tried to open any drive .. it wasn`t opened

also when i clicked rigth and clicked open nothing happened

neither warnning nor any thing

pixellany · 09-01-2008, 11:35 AM

I assume we are talking about USB drives.

Where are the icons that you are clicking? (On some systems, they would appear in "medial".

Open a terminal, enter "su -" to become root, and try these:

mount ....#shows what drives are mounted, and to what mount points
you'll see something mounted to / and also maybe to /boot. If you see other drives mounted to something like /mnt or /media, those are probably your USB drives. Use "cd /mnt/<name>" and then ls to see the contents.

dmesg|grep XXX
In place of XXX, substitute sda, sdb, sdc, sdd....etc. This tells you what drives were recognized at boot-up

Little Programmer · 09-01-2008, 10:08 PM

thanQ man

here is the output when i typed "mount" in the shell

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/falcon/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=falcon)
[root@localhost ~]#

pixellany · 09-01-2008, 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Little Programmer

thanQ man

here is the output when i typed "mount" in the shell

OK.....this tells us that no device is getting mounted except /dev/sda5 at / (the root of the filesystem)

So what about all my other questions and suggestions..???

Little Programmer · 09-02-2008, 12:35 PM

i can`t understand what should i do ??

please clear to me what is the problem ,, and how to solve it ??