Hard drive partition is not detected.

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#1

Hello everyone! First off, Namaste from India to all! I am new to Opensuse and triplebooting Ubuntu 12.04, Crunchbang Waldorf with Opensuse. However, Opensuse can’t detect one of my NTFS partition although GParted detects the same. I installed Gigolo but it doesn’t shows that partition as well. Is there a workaround to this problem?
Thank you in advance.

#2

And a Welcome to you as well here in the openSUSE forums. May we ask that you run a couple of commands in terminal and post the output here for us to see. Open terminal and run these command:

su -
password:
fdisk -l
df

The fdisk -l (that is a minus sign in front of a lower case L) command should show all detected drives while the df command shows everything that is mounted at that time. I suggest you copy the info from terminal and post it into a message using the advance message editor and encase all of the text in code # tags, which makes it show up as the command above.

Thank You,

#3

Thanks for reminding about fdisk! The partition I was looking for was mounted as /windows/C. Sorry for bothering you :slight_smile:

#4

Hey it is no problem panchalman. We are here to help AND if you are used to Windows and the drive letters it uses, then the unified directory setup of Linux just does not make sense to you until you get the hang of it. Now, I can’t imagine why you would use different letters for everything, but its just two ways of placing multiple partitions at your service. Thanks for letting us know of the problem and your success if figuring it all out.

Thank You,

#5

On 2012-07-05 05:16, jdmcdaniel3 wrote:
>
> panchalman;2472767 Wrote:
>> Thanks for reminding about fdisk! The partition I was looking for was
>> mounted as /windows/C. Sorry for bothering you :slight_smile:
>
> Hey it is no problem panchalman. We are here to help AND if you are
> used to Windows and the drive letters it uses, then the unified
> directory setup of Linux just does not make sense to you until you get
> the hang of it. Now, I can’t imagine why you would use different
> letters for everything, but its just two ways of placing multiple
> partitions at your service. Thanks for letting us know of the problem
> and your success if figuring it all out.

At least in Windows 7 you can use directories instead of letters :slight_smile:

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)