Windows

[Cefiar]

On Monday 03 October 2005 10:48, Tommy Single wrote:
> You may call me an idiot.

Wasn't you, was someone else. It's easy to make this mistake once. This was in 
reference to my recovery story, and about the 5th time that the guy made this 
sort of mistake (at the time). He now backs these things up regularly. The 
moral: Learn from your mistakes, don't repeat them.

> But, back to what matters, why can't Ubuntu see my files???

It could be that the LiveCD you are using does not support the hard disk 
controller in the Dell box. I've seen this a few times with SerialATA drives 
on unsupported controllers, particularly with the Warty LiveCD (it's almost a 
year old now, and the SerialATA support has improved a lot). You might try 
moving the drive to a different machine, either putting it internal to the 
new machine or into an external drive bay (eg: USB).

Note that you may have to explicity tell Ubuntu to mount the drive. I've found 
that sometimes Ubuntu (Warty/Hoary) doesn't automount USB/Firewire NTFS 
disks, and if you add it to an existing machine internally, it's also 
possible that it won't see the disk by default.

-- 
 Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - cef at optus.net