Basically, I had a bunch of problems with booting between Windows and Ubuntu and managed to sort them out by making a fresh start with my hard disks (I have 2x 80GB, 1x 500GB).
The 500GB drive stores all my documents... and I mean all of them.
As a precaution, I unplugged the drive while the PC was off before doing reinstallation and partitioning for Windows & Ubuntu.
After all was settled I plugged it back in, and now both Windows and Ubuntu can see it, but all they know is: It's NTFS, and 500GB.
Windows wants me to format it, and Ubuntu just doesn't let me do anything with it. When I use fdisk -l it says it's an "sfs" drive but gparted tells me it's NTFS. This disk can't have been written over, it just can't have been, what could've possibly done it?
If anyone has absolutely any ideas whatsoever or a full solution I'd be forever in your debt. I have a lot of stuff from that backed up, but not everything. I'd be losing a lot of music and movies and applications.
Thanks very much, I hope someone out there can help!
The 500GB drive stores all my documents... and I mean all of them.
As a precaution, I unplugged the drive while the PC was off before doing reinstallation and partitioning for Windows & Ubuntu.
After all was settled I plugged it back in, and now both Windows and Ubuntu can see it, but all they know is: It's NTFS, and 500GB.
Windows wants me to format it, and Ubuntu just doesn't let me do anything with it. When I use fdisk -l it says it's an "sfs" drive but gparted tells me it's NTFS. This disk can't have been written over, it just can't have been, what could've possibly done it?
If anyone has absolutely any ideas whatsoever or a full solution I'd be forever in your debt. I have a lot of stuff from that backed up, but not everything. I'd be losing a lot of music and movies and applications.
Thanks very much, I hope someone out there can help!
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