mounting

[TYRRAM]

I need help just mounting a regular drive my comp recognizes it ok but i cant find it in kubuntu anywhere nor do i know how to mount it its just a small drive with windows on it i would like to save window but dont really need to I was going to use it to switch back and forth like just change the boot order if i wanted to boot into windows i dont even know if th=at would work or not but anyway just mounting it now would be a great help. thx.

[marshallbanana]

Re: mounting

If you go into system settings>advanced>disk and file systems then you should be able to set a mount point for it, eg. /media/windows/ (I think at some point in that you also need to click a button that says admin mode).
That will mount it, but only as read only. If you want to write to it then press alt+f2 (run command) and type 'kdesu konqueror'. Then navigate to the drive, right-click and select properties, go to the permissions tab and set it so everyone has read/write privileges to it.

[TYRRAM]

Re: mounting

That hdd is not there it does not show up

[opie]

Re: mounting

In a terminal window (kmenu-system-konsole) paste the output of

lshw -C disk and give us a bit of info(size and maker) about the drive so we can determine which drive in the listing you are trying to mount.

[TYRRAM]

Re: mounting

warning you should run this program as super user its a fuji 6GB with windows on it it was recognized at install i could have put the os on it if i wanted and imust reiterate it does NOT show up in system settings disks & file systems.

[opie]

Re: mounting

The error doesn't matter it should still give a listing. I wanted you to paste the output of the command as well.

Also do you have ntfs-3g installed? If it is windows and formatted ntfs you will need this package installed.

[TYRRAM]

Re: mounting

yea i do have ntfs-3g sry i took so long to reply what is the command exactly that i should paste ?? and there is no mount point in disks and filesystems but when i start up it gives me the option to boot from that drive with windows and i can no problem so i know the drive is being recognized and is functional.

[TYRRAM]

Re: mounting

ok i got the command right this time this is what i get:

todd@tyrram:~$ lshw -C
Hardware Lister (lshw) - B.02.10
usage: lshw [-format] [-options ...]
lshw -version

-version print program version (B.02.10)

format can be
-html output hardware tree as HTML
-xml output hardware tree as XML
-short output hardware paths
-businfo output bus information

options can be
-class CLASS only show a certain class of hardware
-C CLASS same as '-class CLASS'
-disable TEST disable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )
-enable TEST enable a test (like pci, isapnp, cpuid, etc. )
-quiet don't display status

[opie]

Re: mounting

lshw -C disk

[TYRRAM]

Re: mounting

*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
product: ST313021A
vendor: ATA
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 3.03
serial: 6CT09335
size: 12GB
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5
*-cdrom
description: SCSI CD-ROM
product: CD-ROM CDU701-Q
vendor: COMPAQ
physical id: 0.1.0
bus info: scsi@1:0.1.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 1.0r
serial: [COMPAQ CD-ROM CDU701-Q 1.0r
capabilities: removable audio
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=open
doesnt show the drive im trying to mount

[Snowhog]

Re: mounting

You will get more (useful) information with the following command, issued in a console shell:

sudo fdisk -l

Copy/paste the results for review.

[opie]

Re: mounting

I thought I posted a response yesterday.

Can you see the drive with sudo fdisk -l as snowhog suggested?

If not I think you will need to look over your dmesg output after you boot the machine and see if there is any clue. If you want you can try to post it, there will be a lot of output.

dmesg

in a terminal window. This is an internal drive correct?