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Getting Debian to see both hard-drivesHi there! I am not completly new to linux, and have used other debian based distros before. However I have never just used plain debian before. This morning I installed Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r1(Etch)(AMD64), using network install. After booting the system I soon found out that a lot was out of date. Hence busy updating my Etch. However my main problem at the moment, which I do not know will be gone after update. My PC has two hard-disks; 1 an IDE Drive (which I installed Debian on)and it has various other partions on it. The second hard disk is SATA drive. My problem is that Debian can see the partions on the IDE drive (NTFS) but can not mount them? Second problem is that Debian does not see any of the partions on my SATA drive. Any help would appriciated Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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Getting Debian to see both
Perhaps debian doesn't have support for reading or writing to ntfs partitions. i know this is the case with fedora. as for your sata drive, do you see a special file for your sata drive under the /dev directory? for instance, if you type "ls /dev/sd?" do you see anything? if not then debian is not detecting your sata drive. if you get some listings like sda, sdb, etc then it is probably there. how do you know it is not detecting your partitions? try typing "fdisk -l /dev/sda". this should list all the partitions on the drive. if you see the partitions then you can try to mount them to a mountpoint.