[H-GEN] newbie-mounting a second hard drive.

[Annerley Al]

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Yo! OK, After a bit of fooling around, not knowing if it was already 
mounted or not....
I ran fdisk -l /dev/hdb at Robert's suggestion, thank you.

It said 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 cylinders
Units = Cylinders of 16065 *512 bytes.
device /dev/hdb1
boot *
start 1   End 3649
Blocks 29310562
Id C
System Win95 Fat32 (LBA)

Looks OK? That's a lot of heads!

It's a 30 Gig drive. Does that multiply out?
I can't seem to access any files on it with ls, but maybe I can't navigate 
to it correctly?
ls just gives a blank line as if there are no files on it.  That's if I am 
referring to the correct "directory".
I had navigated to /mnt/hda1

I will come to the next meeting but I'd like to get at the file before then 
if at all possible.

The way I stuffed it up was by using two drives on one machine, connecting 
only one drive at a time.
I was running Linux off another drive, and closed it down.
I was too quick to re-connect this drive (which I use only for Windows 
sessions) before the Linux session had completely finished.
So I presume some Linux stuff was written to it, destroying the WIN xp 
formatting info.
But I hope the crucial WIN data file was not damaged. It's a MS Access .mbd 
file by the way.

There is only the main partition, on each drive. One drive for Linux, the 
other for Windows.

I use Linux mainly just to run my C++ files for my Uni assignments, and I 
don't understand it more than the minimum.

Yassou!


At 01:38 PM 10/08/2002 +1000, you wrote:
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>On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Annerley Al wrote:
>
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> >
> > Yo. I want to be able to read a file from a (corrupted?) hard drive.
> >
> > The file was in win xp format, but I stuffed up the disk when I had it
> > connected to a Linux machine.
>
>What did you do to it exactly?
>
> > So can some kind soul please tell me the corresponding mantra for mounting
> > a second hard drive?
>
>Other have covered this I see :)
>
>Do a fdisk -l on the drive under Linux.  This will show you the
>partition table.  It would be worth posting this.
>
>How salvegable the filesystem is really depends on what happened to it.
>It might be fine or it might not.  Tell us in more detail what happened
>and we'lll see if we can help.
>
>If you can wait you could bring the box to the next Humbug for experienced
>members to have a look at.
>
>Cheers,
>         -Rob
>
>-- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert at timetraveller.org  ICQ: 104781119
>    Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org)
>    "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah
>
>
>
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