Honda_Boy Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 alright i messed up the bootloader when i reinstalled winodws on the first drive. well i installed linux over it to access my second hard drive to access it's files. well since it knew there was an install of linux on that drive it won't access it. someone once told me how to open up the drive but i forgot. if someone could tell me i'd much appreciate it. Thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 is the following true. You have both linux and windows installed on the master hardddrive. Now you are trying to access files on the second harddrive? Are any of your linux distros booting? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted November 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 no i formatted the first drive and installed FC4 so i could get my files on the other drive and put them on a disc and then go back and redo everything having 98se on 1st and FC4 on the 2nd. there was a tweak i was once told that would open up the other drive but i forgot what it was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 are you able to mount the drive?if the files are on your slave(second ide drive), you should be able to mount them like thismkdir /mnt/recoverymount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/recoveryyou second drives first partition should be available at the location /mnt/recovery.hdb1 is the first partition, hdb2 is the second partition. Is it giving you problems or errors when you try to mount it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted November 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 (edited) both drives have only linux i trashed windows so i could recover my files in linuxi had no clue how to access drive 2 i'm not havein any real probs it's just you can't see drive 2 cause FC4 sees another os in that drive. Edited November 21, 2005 by Honda_Boy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 (edited) with your linux distro you reinstalled on the master drive, are you able to access your slave drive using the method I gave above? Edited November 21, 2005 by shanenin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted November 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 i'll have to try it later i'm not on that system i'm on my main one with only XP Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 (edited) cool :-) Just a thought. the location of your / partition is probably not /dev/hdb1, it is more likely /dev/hdb2, or /dev/hdb3 . An easy way to check would be with the fdisk command, it will show your partition table, your biggest partition will be the one you probably need to mount. fdisk -l /dev/hdb Edited November 21, 2005 by shanenin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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