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Topic: Can't detect NTFS

Hi, all

I am a green hand to GParted. Here is my system info:

Sony Vaio BX series laptop, Intel M 1.73G, 512Mb, 60G SATA hard drive which has XP Professional SP2 installed.

The Sony recovery disk only makes one chunk NTFS. I need to install dual boot Fedora 5 for my work.

I tried livecd-0.3.1-1 several times with or without XP installed. It never detected my hard drive. I also tested GParted on my old Dell Inspiron 4000, (10G FAT32, dual boot for Win2000 and Redhat 9.0) it worked just fine.

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

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Re: Can't detect NTFS

so you problem is that gparted doesn't detect your harddrive(s)?

try to start gparted from a terminal like 'gparted <device>'

If you don't know what to fill out for <device> you can send us the output of
'fdisk -lu'

(both command are run from the livecd.

thx

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Re: Can't detect NTFS

Tried # fdisk -lu, nothing come out. Return to the command line directly.

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Re: Can't detect NTFS

in one trial, it detected my usb flash drive. Did sony do something to protect the C drive?

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Re: Can't detect NTFS

it seems that somehow it isn't detected by the livecd, which is strange.
What is the output of 'cat /proc/partitions' ?

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Re: Can't detect NTFS

when booting the livecd, you have a window where you can choose to load some modules, specialy for SATA : give it a try and see if it works then  ...

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Re: Can't detect NTFS

plors wrote:

it seems that somehow it isn't detected by the livecd, which is strange.
What is the output of 'cat /proc/partitions' ?

major minor #blocks name

    7       0      22808 loop0

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Re: Can't detect NTFS

LarryT wrote:

when booting the livecd, you have a window where you can choose to load some modules, specialy for SATA : give it a try and see if it works then  ...

So many modules, which one should I choose. I will try all of them?

During liveCD boot, I only capture

"run_program: '/sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit"
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Then the booting hang up at
sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5 for a long time.

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zhzh wrote:
LarryT wrote:

when booting the livecd, you have a window where you can choose to load some modules, specialy for SATA : give it a try and see if it works then  ...

So many modules, which one should I choose. I will try all of them?

During liveCD boot, I only capture

"run_program: '/sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit"
.
.
.
.
Then the booting hang up at
sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5 for a long time.

I put * on all the modules, still no effect.