hard disk not recognized in ubuntu
#1
Hi,

I have installed ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my asrock pc. Now If I want to add videos in my xbmc library, the hard drive isn't recognized so i can not add videos.
When i leave xbmc and click in the home folder on the left of the screen on the appropriate hard disk and then open XBMC, the hard disk is recognized and I can add videos to the library.

Does anyone know a solution how XBMC can recognize the hard drive directly?

thx in advance !
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#2
Sounds as if its not getting mounted at startup , only when you access it via nautilus. See this link for how to mount it at boot. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab
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#3
i have 2 internal hard disks where my movies are at ..The names are : New Volume and WDC WD10TPVT. These are the one that have to mount.
What do i have to type in the terminal ? (i am really a newbie)
I installed ubuntu (wubi) through windows to check it out but im planning to install ubuntu properly.
Does this something have to do with it that the drives wont mount?
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#4
Read the link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab

The answer for what you have to do is there, its gives you detailed instructions from what commands you have to type to acquire the information necessary about the drives and adding said information to fstab and how to do that.

You may want to search and read on resources like http://afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.rs/~ivica/nlm...fstab.html if you require hand-holding or http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-findi...ate-fstab/ or hell you get the picture right?

To answer your question about installing via wubi, NO.

The reason your drives aren't being mounted, is likely because when the disk partitioner came up, you saw all your drives listed and freaked out, then you very likely went and unchecked drives instead of telling the partitioner simply not to format the drives and leave them as they are (and you very likely didn't read what the partitioner pages were telling you either)

Which then tells Linux you dont want these drives to be auto-mounted, period. Sure they show up in Nautilus (Windows explorer for Linux) or similar the you click on them and it mounts them temporarily...
So now your having to do a very scary thing known as manual configuration.

Linux is not like Windows, where Windows tells you what you can and cant do, Linux lets you do anything, since you are used to be told what to do and how, you are now scared of this world as it should be.

Go forth and educate yourself, the internet is full to the brim with posts in forums and threads form ppl just like you and I was one day. Join IRC channels, talk to ppl, search...

Fear not, Linux wont bite (much), just dont format your drives or partition drives, you dont wanna do that.

Ya, the answer to the question lingering on your mind, Why doesn't he just tell me what to do? The answer is, because then you dont learn ANYTHING and then instead you will open 100 million threads on how do I do this or how do I do that, and then you soon find wait, this already been posted, its on a wiki somewhere! Wait its on the internet someone already spent hours of their life documenting this and everything else.

This post is also a test...
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