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Old 02-14-2009
Accessing all of the hard drive...

Hi, I just downloaded and installed Ubuntu yesterday. It's the first time I have used it, so bear with me. I think I figured out how to get my sound drivers to work (X-Fi)... I had downloaded some OSS drivers, bout to go test them.

But what I really want to know is... I have 2 hard drive, one (D: ) just dedicated to holding my music and the other (C: ) holds my Windows/Ubuntu stuff... now, when I go into Ubuntu, I've mounted my music drive so I can use it, but I when I try to access the C drive from Ubuntu, I can only access what Ubuntu has created, like a my documents, my pictures, etc. So how can I access the rest of the hard drive?
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Old 02-23-2009
It depends on how the rest of the drive is configured.

What filesystem(s) are on the rest of the drive?

Do you know how to find out? (Hint: You can view with fdisk, but be careful!)
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Old 03-16-2009
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Originally Posted by blind melon
Hi, I just downloaded and installed Ubuntu yesterday. It's the first time I have used it, so bear with me. I think I figured out how to get my sound drivers to work (X-Fi)... I had downloaded some OSS drivers, bout to go test them.

But what I really want to know is... I have 2 hard drive, one (D: ) just dedicated to holding my music and the other (C: ) holds my Windows/Ubuntu stuff... now, when I go into Ubuntu, I've mounted my music drive so I can use it, but I when I try to access the C drive from Ubuntu, I can only access what Ubuntu has created, like a my documents, my pictures, etc. So how can I access the rest of the hard drive?
type sudo fdisk -l and post the output here. maybe your windows drive needs a scandisk if the pc was shutdown incorrectly
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