trying to "see" old harddrive.

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Hi all,

I had a 40gig that I have Opensuse11 installed on, but I did something to the setup, and it wouldn’t boot anymore.

So now I installed a newer 160gig HD, and did a fresh opensuse11 install.

I did plug the old 40 gigger as a slave, to retrieve my thunderbird email, but I cannot see where the contents of this hd is located.

How do I get into this 40gigger?

Thanks

Heeter

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Heeter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had a 40gig that I have Opensuse11 installed on, but I did something
> to the setup, and it wouldn’t boot anymore.
>
> So now I installed a newer 160gig HD, and did a fresh opensuse11
> install.
>
> I did plug the old 40 gigger as a slave, to retrieve my thunderbird
> email, but I cannot see where the contents of this hd is located.
>
> How do I get into this 40gigger?

Is it not seen in the things logged in dmesg? I would expect your main drive to
be at /dev/sda and the slave at /dev/sdb.

What does your PC’s BIOS show? Perhaps the drive died.

Larry

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but I cannot see where the contents of this hd is located

You didn’t tell us what ways you tried to see the drive?
Have you tried:

sudo /sbin/fdisk -l

to list the drives that Suse sees?
Or in a slightly more informative fashion get a listing from Yast –> system –> partitioner
That should answer the question “is the drive sensed by Suse”

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Hey guys

Thanks for the replies.

I would like my thunderbird and my firefox folders from my old drive and install on my new drive, but I don’t know where in Opensuse to go and look into the slave and retrieve the folder.

Sorry, should of explained it better.

Heeter

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It’s a hidden file called “.thunderbird” in /home/yourname/.thunderbird

While you’re there you might like to get also “.mozilla/firefox” for your Firefox faves.

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Thanks, Swerdna

But how do I get there?

I cannot access the folders from the slaved drive, I do see it in the partitioner, but I don’t how to access the files from it. Which application do I use to open the slaved drives folders?

Heeter

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Hi. First i suggest to locate the device node for sure. It should be /dev/sdb , but also you have to figure the partition scheme of that drive. So open a console , log in as root and perform the command : fdisk -l . It will show the drives/partitions found by the system. Now it’s only a matter to mount the right partition. For the next let’s assume that you found an ext3(with the previous command) like /dev/sdb1. In to yast system partitioner and there select the partition. Double click there and in the new form select a mount point by your choice. Accept and reboot to make it simple. Otherway in a console log in as root again: mkdir temp
mount /dev/sdb1 temp
Now you can browse your old hd looking at the directory temp with the file browser you prefer

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I do see it in the partitioner, I tried mounting it to /tmp, rebooted and I still can’t see the folders on konqueror.

Can I mount it through fstab, instead?

Heeter

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Yes modifying fstab is the right choice to have the drive automatically mounted at boot time but if you don’t know exactly what to do is a pain. Let yast do this job for you. Anyway if you mount ‘by hand’ (see my last post) what happens browsing /tmp? And if you give the command mount with no parameters as root in a console, does your drive show there between the already mounted file systems? Excuse me if something could not be so clear but i am using my cellphone now

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YAHOO!!

I did it, Thanks bcrisciotti

Just like you said, I needed a reboot, but it’s all there.

Thanks a million man,

And say Hi for me to whoever is on the phone,

Heeter

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That’s really nice to know you have solved! See you again on this fantastic forum