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Thread: My Drives (C & D colons) cannot be mount'd!!!! :(


hey guys...

newbie ubuntu , using windows xp till these days..

now, i've installed ubuntu 8.04 grub , mine 320 sata hdd..

made 4 partitions..

c - 100 gb i'd old xp (which deleted booting thro' hiren's boot cd because, i'd problem xp). now, using 'swap' space (you might wondering huge swap space.. did without knowledge.. )

d - 100 gb i've own important datas

e - 100 gb d

g - 20 gb i've ubuntu 8.04 now..

problem that, on first day, able open d , e drives (after installing ubuntu, d , e drives changed c , d.. dont 've clue.. leave it..).. then, second day, when tried open drives, says "unable mount volume" , in details "cannot read /media/.hal-mtab".

drive names are: 110.4 gb media , 104.9 gb media..

, 1 more thing..

went searching /media/ , found folder name ".hal-mtab" (after pressing ctrl+h) "x" mark 1 folder icon.

says "you donot have permissions necessary view contents of ".hal-mtab"", when try open.

also, there folder of following names "x" mark on icon (the properties window says contents unreadable 0 byets free space , no permissions there)

* cdrom
* cdrom1
* disk-1
* disk-2
* disk-3
.
.
.
to
* disk-49

these disks have 16.0gb free space unknown contents..

tried mounting (they ntfs file systems).. but, failed...

and, thought 've lost datas first.. then, used hirens boot cd , went drive using mini xp drives names c: , d:..

how can mount disk??

wanna access datas... wanna make seperate partation swap space (100gb)!!!

how can these done??

mine acer laptop ubuntu 8.04 in it..

in ubuntu 8.04, please enter command below in terminal (accessories->terminal) , post output.
give definitive information how ubuntu seeing various hard drives , partitions.

code:
sudo fdisk -l


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