Linux Mint Wont Stay on the Main Hard Drive

[wwe9112]

I installed mint to a seperate partition next to windows on my computer. I had my external unplugged at the time... It was actually plugged in at my neighbors. They where watching a movie I had on it; anyhow I plugged it back in went to bed woke up and it took out its own partition on the external... WHY?!


Please help me; thank you sooo much.

[vincent]

You haven't provided much info for us to work with (and frankly, I don't really understand your question). At the very least, a bunch of GParted screenshots showing the partitions on each of your drives would really help, as well as the output of the following terminal command (with both of your hard drives plugged in):

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sudo fdisk -l

[wwe9112]

OK I'll explain better then maybe it will make more sense. Remember I had my External Hard Drive unplugged when I installed Linux Mint.

I have windows 7 on one partition then I went inserted the Linux Mint disk installed it side by side to Windows 7. It all went great, as it still is right now, but when I plugged in my external hard drive it took out a partition and put it self onto it. I think it went from my C Drive(my main drive) to the external. It took out 170 gigs.

Does this make more sense golly I hope so lol.

[vincent]

That still doesn't make sense. Mint will not put itself on another hard drive just by plugging it into your computer. Now, I'll be able to understand what's going on with your computer if you can follow the instructions I posted in my previous post.

You haven't provided much info for us to work with (and frankly, I don't really understand your question). At the very least, a bunch of GParted screenshots showing the partitions on each of your drives would really help, as well as the output of the following terminal command (with both of your hard drives plugged in):

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sudo fdisk -l

[wwe9112]

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001737a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 20675 166070006 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 20675 38914 146499585 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 20675 38168 140509184 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 38168 38914 5989376 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8f9c798a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 9730 78148320+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdg: 500.1 GB, 500107860992 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7c7a3f08

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdg1 1 60801 488381481 7 HPFS/NTFS
wwe9112@wwe9112-desktop ~ $

[vincent]

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 20675 166070006 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 20675 38914 146499585 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 20675 38168 140509184 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 38168 38914 5989376 82 Linux swap / Solaris


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 9730 78148320+ 7 HPFS/NTFS


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdg1 1 60801 488381481 7 HPFS/NTFS

I see that Mint resides only on /dev/sda (the 320 GB hard drive of yours, your main one); /dev/sdb and /dev/sdg only contain single partitions with an NFTS filesystem, not the typical Linux filesystem (e.g. ext3/4, reiserFS). I still don't understand the problem you're facing. Some GParted screenshots would still really help.

In a terminal, paste the following 2 commands one after the other:

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sudo apt-get install gparted
gksudo gparted

Now, press ALT + Prt Sc (or use the "Take Screenshot" menu item) to take a screenshot of each of the three drives mentionned in your fdisk output (sda, sdb, and sdg), and upload them here.

[mick55]

wwe9112

You're confused.

Because you created new Linux partitions the drive letters in Windows have changed,
so now your external drive is not the same drive letter as before you installed Mint.

That does NOT mean Linux moved to a different drive.

mick

[vincent]

Oh, that explains it. Hehe, just goes to show I need to improve my mind-reading skills.

[wwe9112]

OH haha sorry about that you guys. Thank you... Sorry for being such a noob haha.

[mick55]

Sorry for being such a noob haha.

We were ALL noobs once.

Welcome to the forum.

mick