[CS-FSLUG] Seeing/connecting to another HD installed
David Aikema
daikema at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 01:42:20 CST 2004
I suppose that I'm grasping at straws a bit here, but have you tried
looking for updated IDE drivers for your motherboard, or if there is
some utility included with the drive that will allow this newer drive
to be used on older computers? (Linux is better at detecting hard
drives than windows 98 ever was).
There was the 8.4 gig barrier that caused some problems for a while
way back when, but wasn't there also some issue at around the 32 gig
mark. I don't install too many hard drives, so I'm hoping that
someone else will chime in with some more information to either
confirm or disprove this theory.
David
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 23:48:09 +0000, Ruth Marlene Friesen
<bouquet at ruthes-secretroses.com> wrote:
> My apologies for this long delay in reporting. You probably don't want
> to get a complete recital of all that has kept me busy the last month
> or so. (sigh).
>
> But I'm happy to report that I was able to get at that Win Data on the
> transferred 40 GB drive. I had to re-install Mandrake, but then I was
> able to simply copy/paste from that drive to the Win area on the 10
> GB C:/ drive. The Win at C:/ simply could not see that drive no-how!
>
> Now I have another similar problem with it. I decided to let Windows
> have the whole 10GB C:/ and claim the 40GB for my Linux
> programs. I deleted the Mandrake partitions I'd had on the second
> half of the 10GB and turned it into a FAT32 or Windows partition. But
> my Win98 OS still cannot "see" or access it. The 5.8 GB space I
> gave Win originally is too tight.
>
> Nothing in Settings seems to help. Should I be doing something in
> Bios?
>
> I hate to mess in there, as that's how I locked myself out of the older
> computer. I can't even raise bios now in that one.
>
> On the other hand, I saw that the 1st install disk of Mandrake has a
> Windows rescue area. Dare I use that to help Win98 see it has lots
> more room to use?
>
> As of this week I have to take time off from work to get ready for
> Christmas house guests, so I'm not pushing my transition to
> Mandrake so hard. Just trying to get basic stuff done in Windows,
> like move another site! Everything seems to create more files.
>
> I do appreciate all of you, but lately have just steered all the emails
> into a folder, which now contains 255 group emails. Guess I'll be a
> while skimming through all those, eh?
>
> Blessings & Thanks,
> Ruth
>
>
>
> On 24 Nov 2004 at 23:22, Ruth Marlene Friesen wrote:
>
> > Thank you, to both Jukka & Don,
> >
> > Jukka advised;
> > > I do not know if you are going to mount it only temporarily, but
> > > according to one of those articles, it should be possible to use
> any
> > > existing directory (but because it's "real content" of is not
> > > accessible during the mount, directories which contains
> > configuration
> > > files, program binaries etc are not a good choice). It might be
> best
> > > to create completely new directory (execute "mkdir /newdisk" at
> the
> > > command-prompt with superuser privileges) and mount new
> hard
> > disk into
> > > it. After you have created it, DrakConf should be able to "see" it.
> > >
> > > Blessings,
> > > Jukka
> > >
> > It would be good to leave things along for a while (I'm getting a bit
> > weary of changes) but I'll settle for temporary access to get those
> > files transferred.
> >
> > With your encouragement, I tried that this morning, pouring over
> that
> > article again too, and I felt I got somewhere when I gave this
> > command; # fdisk -l /dev/hdg
> >
> > and saw all this;
> > Disk /dev/hdg: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hdg1 * 1 274 2200873+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hdg2 275 2540 18201645 5 Extended
> > /dev/hdg5 275 367 746991 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/hdg6 368 468 811251 83 Linux
> > /dev/hdg7 469 733 2128581 83 Linux
> > /dev/hdg8 734 2023 10361893+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hdg9 2024 2087 514048+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hdg10 2088 2480 3156741 b Win95 FAT32
> > /dev/hdg11 2481 2540 481918+ 83 Linux
> >
> > The + signs indicate the partitions with my data, right?
> > So I used the mkdir /mnt/hdg1 (thru 11) to make new directories
> for
> > all those partitions. Then, per the article, used mount /dev/hdg1
> > /mnt/hdg1 (thru 11) as the commands to mount them. About at
> hdg9 I got
> > a friendly notice that I wasn't doing that quite right. Sorry, I
> > forgot to copy paste that into my text file.
> >
> > I went to check in DrakControl and it appeared most of the
> partitions
> > were now mounted, but when I went into Konqueror to see if I
> could
> > actually get a hold of the files, those new directories were empty.
> >
> > Thinking it might be a matter of re-booting first, I exited and went
> > in again, but nope... can't see the files yet.
> >
> > I'm beginning to wonder now about just adding the boot section tot
> my
> > main boot screen and then fixing things from within that drive.
> >
> > Or - if I tried to re-install Mandrake, would it leave my files intact
> > and sort of fix the system files around them?
> >
> > Don suggested;
> >
> > > You should be able to write in a mount point as well, such as
> > > /windows or put it under /mnt/windows
> > >
> > I thought I had tried that too, but now I can't recall what happened,
> > so maybe I didn't.
> >
> > > (I'm assuming you want to access a Windows partition that is
> labeled
> > > "G").
> > >
> > Yes. Plus a few in Mandrake too.
> >
> > > You might even place it under /mnt/windows, and then create a
> link
> > > to it called /windows.
> > >
> > It comes to me now that I could maybe have given that mount
> > command as; mount /dev/hdg10 /mnt/hdc1/windows
> >
> > By the way, I saw today that My Computer in windows shows G:\
> as a
> > removable drive until I click on it. Then it disappears.
> >
> > > Hope this isn't too confusing. :)
> > >
> > Well, <grin> it looks like I'm getting warm. I just need to refine
> > this mount command stuff until I get it right.
> >
> > It's getting to be that time of night when my eyes swell shut. I'll
> > have to try again tomorrow morning. Thank you for your patience
> with
> > me.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Blessings & Thanks,
>
> Ruth
>
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> An intentional and mentoring friend like "Ruthe"!
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