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Thread: Can't see hard drive in file manger

  1. #1
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    Unhappy Can't see hard drive in file manger

    I have dual booted kali linux with windows 10. I have two hard drive in the system. One is WD 500GB Blue and second one is WD 1000GB Purple. Both OS i.e. windows and kali linux are installed in 500GB hard drive. The problem is that I can see all the partition of 500BG hard drive in kali linux file manager but I can't see 1000GB WD Purple hard drive is visible in windows and works fine and which also has most of my data. I ran the parted -l to check if all the hard drives are listed and I got the following output
    Code:
    root@USER:~# parted -l
    Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAKX-0 (scsi)
    Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
    Partition Table: msdos
    Disk Flags: 
    
    Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
     1      1049kB  525MB   524MB   primary   ntfs            boot
     2      525MB   38.1GB  37.6GB  primary   ntfs
     4      38.1GB  113GB   75.2GB  extended
     5      38.1GB  110GB   72.1GB  logical   ext4
     6      110GB   113GB   3093MB  logical   linux-swap(v1)
     3      113GB   500GB   387GB   primary   ntfs
    
    
    Model: ATA WDC WD10PURX-64E (scsi)
    Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
    Partition Table: gpt
    Disk Flags: 
    
    Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
     1      17.4kB  1066kB  1049kB               LDM metadata partition
     2      1066kB  134MB   133MB                Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
     3      134MB   1000GB  1000GB               LDM data partition
    Is anyone know how to fix this problem? Any help would be really appreciated

  2. #2
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    The 1000GB hard drive has LDM partitions, the Windows equivalent of LVM. You will have to install ldmtool to be able to mount them.

  3. #3
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    Thank you very much Fuzzer. I installed the ldmtool and ran the following command
    Code:
    ldmtool create all
    And now I can see my hard drive. THANK YOU AGAIN

  4. #4
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    You're welcome.

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