(Lenovo N100 0768-GXM) Problem recognizing HDDs in Fedora 7

[Cpl_RaefSellous]

Installed Linux to an external USB drive. Setup a boot partition for Grub on my local HDD.

USB drive partitioned to Linux/NTFS (Windows). Fedora recognizes Linux and NTFS partitions on USB drive, but doesn't recognize NTFS partition on local drive.

Anyway I can mount this?

My system specs:

Lenovo N100 C3000 series notebook (0768-GXM)
Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 Proc 1.83 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB
2 GB PC2-5300 DDR2 667 MHz SDRAM
120 GB 5400 rpm SATA HD
56K V.92 designed modem - Ethernet-Integrated
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG, Bluetooth Version 2.0 + EDR
GRAPHICS : NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 with Turbo Cache, 128 MB DDR2 VRAM
Realtek High Definition Audio chipset.

Linux specs:

Fedora: ver 7 (X86_64 build)
Yum version: 3.2.1-1.fc7
Kernel version: 2.6.20-2925.13.fc7xen #1
ALSA version: Driver – 1.0.14rc1, Lib – 1.0.14.1.fc7, Utils – 1.0.14-1.fc7

Linux running off USB Ext Harddrive connected via USB2.0. HD specs – WD320 “MyBook”, 7200rpm.

Linux boots via grub along with Windows Vista/XP.

[Firewing1]

Don't double post... Thread closed.
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=163605
Firewing1

[Firewing1]

My mistake, this post was reported by other users as a double and I thought so because at a glance the two threads look identical... Sorry about that! Reopening.
Firewing1

[JEO]

What do you see when you do the following commands in a terminal window:
su -
fdisk -l

also try:
dmesg |more

and look for any error messages relating to your local motherboard sata hard disk driver loading.

[Cpl_RaefSellous]

Thanks for your replyk, Jeo.

I've attached the two files of the results of those searches.

I looked through them - don't seem to see an error.

here's a new perplexity - I've made a partition on those HDDs, and I can boot/run FD from that partition. But I can't see any of the Windows partitions. is that normal?

[Firewing1]

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 863 6930432 27 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 * 863 9707 71033856 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 10119 14594 35943424 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 9708 10118 3301357+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 9708 9720 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 9721 10118 3196903+ 83 Linux
That's the problem - Sometimes that can cause troubles with partitions.
If you boot up with Windows, does it run or fail detecting the NTFS partitions?
Firewing1

[JEO]

I have had similar problems mixing partitions that were created by windows and partitions created by linux on the same drive. The cure was to use windows to create all of the partitions, and then use the sfdisk command to change the partition type numbers from windows types to linux partitions.

[Cpl_RaefSellous]

Sorry if I'm just super green, but I eventually figured that I just didn't know how to mount them.

I used a different copy of linux - some INSERT bootable CD, and it found the NTFS partitions and mounted them after I typed in the appropriate commands.

Can't replicate that in Fedora after a fresh install. I ran cat /proc/filesystems and NTFS didn't show.

Thanks for your help - Firewing, haven't had trouble with Windows so far, but did take your advice and redid my HDD with partition magic just to be safe.