Can you please check these screen shots and comment
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ok so that tells you that sdb is indeed a 10 GB disk with a single partition (using the whole disk) that is formatted with a windows filesystem.
Evo2.
Thanks evo2: windows Xp was installed when i found this PC but when i first installed Xubuntu erasing winxp,i maybe wrong but then no wonder i had the Black <Grub Rescue>
then i couldn't reinstall Xubuntu, But i could install Mint14 Nadia.
So should i disconnect it and leave the 80gb only?Thanks
What do you mean by "need"? Do you mean is it being used for something important? If so then, that screen shot does not provide that information. To see what disks/partitions are being used you can use df. Eg
Code:
df -h
The output of "mount" may also provide useful information
(root not needed for these commands).
Thanks evo2: windows Xp was installed when i found this PC but when i first installed Xubuntu erasing winxp,i maybe wrong but then no wonder i had the Black <Grub Rescue>
then i couldn't reinstall Xubuntu, But i could install Mint14 Nadia.
So should i disconnect it and leave the 80gb only?Thanks
That is entirely up to you. I don't know what is on it. It could be a windows os, or it could be a bunch of data files. At this point I still don't even know if it is mounted - see my earlier post #15 about finding out if it is currently being used. There may be stuff on there that you want, or you may want to wipe/reformat it and use it as extra disk space (eg for backups).
Ok, now we can see that the 10 GB disk has been mounted at /media/frank/C258D70258D6F3DF
So, you might as well have a poke around there (either using the commandline or some sort of gui filebrowser if that is your preference) and decide what you want to do with it.
I have helped many people with grub problems in the past and this is something that Dell does. This is not something I know from using windows, but from helping Linux users.
Last edited by andrewthomas; 11-20-2013 at 09:29 PM.
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