USB NTFS partition confused with local NTFS partition, 6.10

[Alan Dechert]

Ubuntu 6.10

Toshiba Satellite A65 S126 Laptop

1) Using Acronis True Image Home 10.0 created image of 60 gig Win xp NTFS system from original hard drive (removed drive from laptop and put it in a USB enclosure; wrote image to desktop computer).

2) Restored NTFS partition to new 120 gig Hard drive (using Acronis software and USB enclosure).

3) Put new 120 gig hard drive (with 60 gig NTFS win xp system partition in laptop) and installed Ubuntu. Kept 60 gig partition and added 25 gig partition for Ubuntu, plus 5 gig swap, and 30 gig FAT32.

4) Added a folder (called 'data') in original 60 gig hard drive and put this drive in USB enclosure.

5) Plug USB enclosure into laptop with Ubuntu running. It shows up on desktop as hda1 (2) (usb icon shows) -- a copy of hda1 (the NTFS partition) and the data folder created does not show. Ubuntu appears to ignore the external usb drive and only looks at local NTFS partition.

6) Another drive (formatted FAT32) installed in the usb enclosure shows up correctly and Ubuntu can read/write files on that one.

[Ryan Maki (ryan.maki)]

Due to the fact that you used drive imaging software when copying these drives it is possible that both drives were sharing the same msdos disklabel.

If you have been using this laptop since the bug was reported have any additional steps resolved the bug?

You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. Is this still an issue for you? If not, this bug will be closed in the near future for lack of activity. Thanks in advance.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.