Trouble With Drive.....

[Colin Law]

On 29 July 2012 03:50, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I <eoconnor25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having a problem with a hard drive.
> I currently have a standard install of Ubuntu 12.04 on my Dell Inspirion
> laptop, I have acquired a drive from a computer that is 320 GB it's a
> Western Digital with lots of corporate data on it that I must remove. I have
> mounted this drive and it doesn't allow me to access the information. I can
> see the Western Digital's "portion" of the drive, which is small, and
> apparently it protects the drive in some fashion, it seems that it might
> have locked me out of the access loop, while I can see the small WD portion
> of the drive, the giant 320GB part is not visible nor accessible, can anyone
> help me with this problem? If I'm not explaining this right, I'll try to
> clarify it better....

Try running gparted (partition manager), from there you should be able
to repartition and format the drive how you like.  Just be careful
which drive you are formatting.  You can either install gparted (if
not already installed) or download a gparted live cd image that you
can then boot from.  Possibly the former is safer as gparted should
not easily allow you to format a mounted drive (which your system
drive will be).

Colin