How to mount a SATA drive

geek2009 · 02-13-2011, 10:34 PM

All,

I am a complete noob when it comes to Ubuntu, so please bear with me. I am trying to mount a SATA drive so that I can restore the documents off of a corrupted Windows XP machine. How would I go about doing this? I have never dealt with SATA before today, and have been banging my head against the wall trying to find an answer. Thanks in advance!

micxz · 02-13-2011, 10:45 PM

Don't hurt yourself. Maybe wear a helmet'
I found this when I googled for you:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/mountin...-ubuntu-linux/

EDDY1 · 02-13-2011, 10:59 PM

I've been able to mount almost all of my additional drives from file manager the "Computer" icon switch view to places, right-click on drive and select "Browse".

micxz · 02-13-2011, 11:06 PM

That's true you should check and see if you OS has already mounted it for you. try "df -a".

geek2009 · 02-13-2011, 11:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by micxz

Don't hurt yourself. Maybe wear a helmet'
I found this when I googled for you:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/mountin...-ubuntu-linux/

Last I checked, there is a difference between NTFS and SATA. I can mount a NTFS drive, I just can't figure out the SATA part.

EDDY1 · 02-13-2011, 11:14 PM

Quote:

Last I checked, there is a difference between NTFS and SATA. I can mount a NTFS drive, I just can't figure out the SATA part.

NTFS is file system type. NTFS, EXT, FAT32
SATA is drive type pata(ide) or sata

EDDY1 · 02-13-2011, 11:16 PM

My Ubuntu system read ntfs out the box.

geek2009 · 02-14-2011, 05:20 PM

When I follow the link given, at the mount command it just gives me a list of the different mount options. Any thoughts?

micxz · 02-14-2011, 09:39 PM

Would you please post the output of

Code:

df -a

pradeepontheline · 02-14-2011, 10:29 PM

Please check the device name. Eg. /dev/sda1. For SATA normally device name is "sda".

EDDY1 · 02-14-2011, 10:40 PM

Do you have Icons on desktop?
My Ubuntu installation only had panels and no icons.
Everything your trying to do can be done using tools on GUI

geek2009 · 02-14-2011, 11:23 PM

micxz- I had to post the output of the df -a as an image because I am troubleshooting a different machine. Please see attached.

pradeepontheline- I have tried /dev/sda, /sda1, /sda2, /sda3, and /sda4. I just wanted to make sure that I covered everything that it could be.

EDDY1- I don't have any icons on my desktop.

I forgot to mention that I am running Ubuntu off of a live disk. I'm not sure if that matters at all. Thank you all in advance for your help! I have some really important documents I need to get off of the drive, and my backup failed to run the night before the crash. Figures.

geek2009 · 02-14-2011, 11:25 PM

Sorry, forgot the attachment.

micxz · 02-14-2011, 11:31 PM

Live cd I see. It looks to be not mounted yet can you post the output

Code:

fdisk -l

EDDY1 · 02-15-2011, 01:23 AM

There are a couple of ways to find root partition using live cd.
I use disk utility under System>>Administration>>Disk utility