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In my computer, I added a second hard drive to install Ubuntu on, so I had one with that and one with Windows XP on it. I want to be able to access files on the Windows drive from Linux, but all the tips I got from other threads and people haven't worked. As far as I can tell, Linux doesn't recognize that there's another drive at all. Any ideas?
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I've looked in the places menu, but there's only the usual (filesystem, music, documents, etc.). There's no other drives there.
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A couple of quick commands to try:
"dmesg" = diagnostic messages. You may get a load of stuff flying up the screen, so best pipe it through "more" (dmesg | more). Don't try to make a great deal of sense of everything there, but there should be some info about what hardware is detected... hopefully, you'll see the disk there.
"fdisk -l" = list partitions that Linux can see (yah, that's minus-ell, not a one!). If that one *does* work then you should see partitions on the second disk as /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2 etc...
If that second bit works, post the output here and I (or someone else) can post commands used to mount the disk.
Other point: does the BIOS see the disk first? If not, you may have two master devices on the same bus (for PATA stuff)