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puppy 5.2.8 on a new LT4004u netbook unable to mount external hard drive wd IDE 80GB does not show up on desktop puppy is booting from sdb flash drive windows 7 is on on sda1

does show here as sdc:
sh-4.1# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1698 13631488 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 * 1698 1710 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1710 38914 298834944 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 7948 MB, 7948206080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 966 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 966 7759363+ b W95 FAT32
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite)

Disk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
251 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9884 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15813 * 512 = 8096256 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 1859 14691328 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 1859 5641 29902849 5 Extended
sh-4.1#


sh-4.1# dmesg | tail
sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] 156301488 512-byte logical blocks: (80.0 GB/74.5 GiB)
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdc: sdc1 sdc2 < >
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
sh-4.1#

how can I retrieve data from this disk? and perhaps use it as external hd?
thanks

Run Gparted and check Drive sdc. What does it say?

partition=unallocated
file system=unallocated
size=74.53GiB

gaherzog wrote:partition=unallocated
file system=unallocated
size=74.53GiB

That's why Puppy can't mount it.

When did it last work? What data is on it?

I was going to suggest that you try to mount it in Windows. But if the partition table shows it as Linux, that's probably not going to work.

it was in my former pc which died about 10 days ago. I got a brief message about a cpu failure due to overclocking; then nothing. not even the flash screen. I removed 2 hard drives; one sata and one lde. The sata works via usb, the ide does not. the ide has most of the data on it. The loss of the data is not a major consequence, but it is a major irritation.

Is the data recoverable? Is the drive salvageable?

any ideas anyone?

http://www.logilink.eu/showproduct/AU0006C.htm

Adaptor i use : needs usb-storage driver loaded . To change attached drives, usb-storage has to be unloaded to be able to refresh /proc/partitions .