Can't see Slave Hard drive
Hi,
I installed ubuntu on one of my old hard drives, but decided I wanted to upgrade it a little, bought a new hard drive, reinstalled it, and now I'm trying to copy all my documents over to my new hard drive. I set my old hard drive to Slave, and plugged it into my computer, with my new hard drive (set as master) booting up. I've looked in every folder I can find in '/' that I think could have my second hard drive listed, and I can't find it anywhere. I've read in other forums while I looked through google for help with this, that they're named hda, hdb, hdc, and so on. So I searched for hda and hdb (using the search tool) and still can't find it. I wondered if anyone could tell me an easy way to view my second hard drive, and copy the documents over. Many Thanks in Advance |
Have you actually mounted the drive? Post the output of "fdisk -l" (that's a lowercase L, not a 1 and fdisk will probably need to be run as root).
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tony@beng:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Password: Disk /dev/hda: 300.0 GB, 300069052416 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 36198 290760403+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 36199 36481 2273197+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 36199 36481 2273166 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/hdb: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 9729 78148161 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 9730 10011 2265165 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 9730 10011 2265133+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris tony@beng:~$ Thats my entire output from it. |
It looks like you want to mount /dev/hdb1. Make a directory to mount your drive, with mkdir, e.g. "mkdir /mnt/old" (you may need to use sudo, depending on where you're trying to create the directory). Then, mount the device with "sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/old" (replacing "/mnt/old" with whatever directory you've chosen). You should now be able to cd into that directory and access the files.
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I can!
Thanks a lot for the help! I'm writing that down for the next time I have a problem with this, no doubt I will :p Again, Thanks a lot for the help! :) |
No problem.
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