Not able to access the second hard drive

[lauthiamkok]

I am not able to access the second hd and a partition of the master hd.

They both appear on the Media Storage, but the system prompts an unknown error message when I click them. And in the Properties, it says they are unmounted hard drive volumn. What does it mean?

Should I mount them? And how do I mount them?

[eriefisher]

Re: Not able to access the second hard drive

Post you fstab

Press alt+f2 to get the run command and type:

kate /etc/fstab

Copy the output here so we can see it.

[Rog131]

Re: Not able to access the second hard drive

Should I mount them? And how do I mount them?

If you type man mount in the konsole, it tells:

DESCRIPTION
All files accessible in a Unix system are arranged in one big tree, the
file hierarchy, rooted at /. These files can be spread out over sev‐
eral devices. The mount command serves to attach the file system found
on some device to the big file tree. Conversely, the umount ( 8 ) command
will detach it again.

The standard form of the mount command, is
mount -t type device dir

and so on

about fstab:

man fstab

How to edit and understand /etc/fstab
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

/etc/fstab demystified
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/0...mystified.html

Fstab (wiki)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab

[lauthiamkok]

Re: Not able to access the second hard drive

it says... ( I am completely lost!!)

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda3
UUID=1882d579-acd4-4a5c-a94c-8389d71669f2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hda1
UUID=00244A37244A2FC8 /media/hda1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/hda2
UUID=6848304B08EBB965 /media/hda2 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/hda4
UUID=86def797-6732-4d19-88e9-f5af5ab9c018 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

[penguin.ch]

Re: Not able to access the second hard drive

No reason for panic - not yet could you please hack sudo fdisk -l into a console and post the resulting output as a whole to this forum / thread?

Birdy

[lauthiamkok]

Re: Not able to access the second hard drive

I checked the properties of that second hd, it says that hd is owned by root. I dont understand this becos I can definitely read and write in that hd in Windows System. But in Kubuntu it says that permission for that hd is - dr-xr-x---

I also checked an external hds but it says it is owned by lauthiamkok-lauthiamkok which is my name and the login name and the computer name as well. and the permission for that hd is drwx--- which is read and write.

How can I make the second hd to be able read and write??

[marshallbanana]

Re: Not able to access the second hard drive

See the bottom post in the following thread for a way to change the read/write permissions without using the command line
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...47761#msg47761

Also, be careful about writing to a partition used by windows as apparently doing so may ruin your windows.

[Caleb14]

Re: Not able to access the second hard drive

I am going to go out on a limb an assume that your hard drive is NTFS. I would go to system settings and under the advanced tab here is a Disk & Filesystems Icon, go into that. Next enter administrator mode by clicking the lower left button with the same name. Enter your root password. Then modify the settings the on the hard drive the you want to change. Change the type to NTFS, and change the user and group to yourself( lauthlamkok ).

[jaybombalous]

Re: Not able to access the second hard drive

I am going to go out on a limb an assume that your hard drive is NTFS. I would go to system settings and under the advanced tab here is a Disk & Filesystems Icon, go into that. Next enter administrator mode by clicking the lower left button with the same name. Enter your root password. Then modify the settings the on the hard drive the you want to change. Change the type to NTFS, and change the user and group to yourself( lauthlamkok ).

This is how I did it and I can now read my windows HD in linux, but mine was a seperate SATA hd. A totaly different drive then what linx is installed to.

I don't dare to try and write to the drive, no sense in using something that is known to have problems.

But I don't think this will help the original posters problem. He can't even boot to the windows partition. that is a more advanced problem then just viewing files on the drive in linux.

[lauthiamkok]

Re: Not able to access the second hard drive

i am able to access the hd now. it is brilliant! thanks guys!

best wishes,
Lau