Accessing second hard drive

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Published on 2011-02-07T16:09:36Z Indexed on 2012/09/19 21:51 UTC
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So I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit on my computer.

I installed it on my 60gb SSD hard drive, and in the installation it never acknowledged the existence of my second hard drive.

The hard drive that I keep all my files on, and which I want to make my home folder if I can, is a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB cache (WD1002FAEX).

I've read the following: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount but honestly cannot work out how to access the hard drive from my Ubuntu installation.

I did have Windows 7 64-bit prior to installing Ubuntu. I have backed up all the files on the hard drive, but if I could just access them straight off that would be super cool.

Does anyone know how I can use the second hard drive?


Thank you for your help

EDIT: The following directories are currently in my /dev/ folder:

ati/, block/, bsg/, bus/, char/, cpu/, isk/, input/, mapper/, net/, pktcdvd/, pts/, shm/, snd/, and usb/

EDIT:

Result from sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 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: 0x000d2dfd

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        6994    56174592   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            6994        7298     2438145    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            6994        7298     2438144   82  Linux swap / Solaris

@djeykib So very close to fixing it.. unfortunately on the last command you gave it says this:

$ sudo apt-get install linux-lts-backport-natty
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-lts-backport-natty

Checking on http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppas reveals that it is only available for 10.04. Looks like I'll have to unplug and re-plug hardware if I want it working still :(

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