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I'm a newbie and moved from Windows 10 to Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. I installed Ubuntu to my 120GB SSD and other personal files are on my internal 1 TB HDD. After installing Ubuntu, I can only see the SSD drive and its contents but not my HDD drive.

Please help me to so I can access my HDD.

lsblk command

HDD Not Shown on Files

HDD Shown on Disk utility

Rishon_JR
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Aski
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  • Please be precise with details; Ubuntu products using the year format (eg. Ubuntu Core 22) are different to the far more widely used year.month product (eg. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server). 22 is a flavor of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server. Is your windows a clean disk (ie. not a hibernated system which includes fastboot as that is an unclean disk with parts of file-system stored in the fastboot/hibernate file) – guiverc Nov 07 '22 at 06:23
  • Updated the Ubuntu version on description. And not sure about what you are asking about windows. On my HDD I has only my personal file like medias and other developing software. – Aski Nov 07 '22 at 06:31
  • Do you know if Bitlocker was used (or any other form of encryption) on your hdd when it was used in Windows? Also, I assume fast start up wasn’t disabled … did you shut down Windows completely (not hibernate) when you closed it for the last time? – Will Nov 07 '22 at 06:42
  • No any encryption was used when i was using windows. And windows was shutdown when i closed it last time. – Aski Nov 07 '22 at 07:09
  • What happens if you try to mount it? You should find you disk using sudo fdisk -l – Ozymandi4s Nov 07 '22 at 11:27

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The problem is that that disk has used Windows proprietry LDM partitions: see this link My NTFS partitions are being showed as LDM Data Partitions (the comment from oldfred is probably more useful than the answer).

It's not straightforward to access that drive from Ubuntu.

You have a few options:

(1) Use a tool to access that data (eg ldmtool): This link may help you https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8427372/windows-spanned-disks-ldm-restoration-with-linux

(2) Reformat the drive and copy your data back from backup. To format the drive, click on the gear cog at the bottom left on Disks and you should get options to create partitions / format the drive.

(3) If you don't have a backup (but you really should!), your safest option is to use Windows to access the data, back it up then format in Ubuntu. Either (1) remove the drive and put it in a Windows machine - I think you should be able to access it then - or (2) reinstall Windows on your SSD, access your HDD's data, copy it externally and then reinstall Ubuntu and copy the data across.

Do let us know how you get on.

Will
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