Is my data lost? Installed Linux, no longer can I access my hard drives.
Here's the story -
I installed Linux on my Y drive, and all went well until I tried to boot into XP again. I can't access or install an operating system to my other three hard drives, C, X, and Z.
I think that during the install my hard drives were changed to something other then NTFS, but Linux won't access them either.
When I use my Windows XP or Windows 7 disc, it says the drive has 0mb free, and it can't install until I delete the partition, then reformat. I don't want to do this obviously, because I don't want to format all of my data.
When I go to Places > My Computer it lists my CD drive, Filesystem, and the Y drive. It doesn't show my other three hard drives.
Under Palimpsest Disk Utility I can see my other three drives, but I can't access the data on them yet.
You don't say which Linux distro you installed or whether it was a "Live" version, it is possible you have created a system wide LVM.
If you have gparted installed see what it says about your disk partitions. If it's not installed try downloading the systemrescue cd from Main Page - SystemRescueCd (always useful to have) and see what gparted and the other tools have to say.
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00ca89b7
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 9730 78148608 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3de4bf44
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x76397639
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 60801 488384001 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdd: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x32dbca08
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 60801 488384001 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sde: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10337 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf03b4104
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 1 10338 78147584 7 HPFS/NTFS
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