[Nottingham] Viewing a second harddrive

[Martin]

Ron,

I'm guessing you mean an external SATA drive enclosure to plug your
drives into...


Good and thanks for letting us know. Good luck with the CV!

Cheers,
Martin


On 22/11/16 20:23, Ron Wilton wrote:
> Thanks for replying, Martin and Denny.
> 
> In the end I managed to get to the files with a SATA hard drive that a
> colleague at work has lent me.
> 
> Thanks, again. Great help.
> 
> Ron
> 
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> 
> On Monday, November 21, 2016, 10:21 am, Martin via Nottingham
> <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>     Ron,
> 
>     Rather curious...
> 
>     As Denny suggests: Might those drives be encrypted?...
> 
> 
>     Other possibilities are:
> 
>     Re: "an old Ubuntu computer"...
> 
>     Are those two disks using the 'new' GPT partitioning scheme and your old
>     Ubuntu is too old to recognize that?...
> 
> 
>     Next test would be to use a recent Linux distro to look to see what is
>     on those disks. Can you download a "Live distro" onto a DVD or USB-stick
>     and run that on your old machine to take a look?
> 
>     Or... You are welcome to bring the two disks along to our next meeting
>     and we can take a look. Let us know if we need to bring a USB-SATA
>     adapter?
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     On 20/11/16 12:31, ron_w_add at yahoo.co.uk <javascript:return> wrote:
>     > Hello Martin
>     >
>     > Thanks for your reply.
>     >
>     > I have tried as you suggested. However, I am unable to see the second
>     > drive in the dev folder - all I have are sda, and sda1 to sda6. I
>     would
>     > have expected to see sdb.
>     >
>     > I have also:
>     > 1) tried
>     > sudo lshw -C disk
>     > but only see the primary drive.
>     >
>     > 2) tried attaching both the SDD and HDD as the secondary drive, but am
>     > unable to see them.
>     >
>     > 3) checked the cables and power sockets on motherboard by changing
>     round
>     > the cables, but still unable to see the extra drive.
>     >
>     > 4) booted up the computer with the above SDD and HDD but have been
>     asked
>     > for the floppy boot drive (does not now exist).
>     >
>     > A further thing to point out is that the SDD and HDD have been
>     installed
>     > with Windows 7. This should not be a problem as the old computer I am
>     > using to read the SDD and HDD was dual booted with Windows XP.
>     >
>     > Do you have any more suggestions?
>     >
>     > Thanks
>     >
>     > Ron
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     > *From:* Martin via Nottingham <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
>     <javascript:return>>
>     > *To:* Ron Wilton via Nottingham <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
>     <javascript:return>>
>     > *Sent:* Saturday, 19 November 2016, 20:42
>     > *Subject:* Re: [Nottingham] Viewing a second harddrive
>     >
>     > Ron,
>     >
>     > Surprised noone has answered yet... It must be the weekend and a
>     bright
>     > sunny day!
>     >
>     > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:55:01AM +0000, Ron Wilton via
>     Nottingham wrote:
>     > [...]
>     >> This document could be one one it two drives: a SanDisk solid state
>     > drive; or a Western Digital HDD. Both of these drives have a SATA
>     > interface. Unfortunately, this computer does not now work; I believe
>     > that the processor is at fault.
>     >> I had hoped to use an old Ubuntu computer to read these drives. I
>     have
>     > attached the SSD to the SATA and power cables to act as a second
>     > harddrive without success. Can anyone advise me on whether what I am
>     > doing is possible, and if so, what else do I need to do?
>     >> Thanks.
>     >>
>     >> Ron
>     >
>     > Yep... You can read multiple HDD/SSD disks like that.
>     >
>     > Safest is to shut everyting down and ensure the power is off. Then
>     > attach your second drive with power and SATA, boot up, and then...
>     >
>     > You need to "mount" the respective partitions from the second drive.
>     >
>     > Look for "mount" or "devices" in the menu options for your desktop or
>     > file manager or 'system menu'. You may see something described as
>     > "/dev/sdb1" or "/dev/sdc1" or some such series of numbers, or some
>     name
>     > that describes the partition that you want. (Your host machine
>     should be
>     > using "/dev/sda1" and a few other "/dev/sda..." for its own disk
>     partitions.
>     >
>     >
>     > Let us know if you're stuck for finding a walk-through.
>     >
>     > (Also, for your HDD, ensure that it is firmly placed horizontally or
>     > virtically. Definitely do not try using it whilst 'dangling' on the
>     > cables! There is a fragile spinning disk inside that chunky metal
>     box!)
>     >
>     >
>     > Good luck and let us know how you get along,
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > Martin



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