The shortcut is always displayed when I have the LIVE-CD) If I choose COMPUTER from PLACES I only get my DVD and SYSTEM... (see attached picture). I haven't changed anything in any system file...

Anyway...

kim@Ubuntu-BBB:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="E8207B40207B1532" LABEL="SYSTEM" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="28A496F9A496C8A8" LABEL="DATA" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda6: UUID="213c4f3e-e6cc-4f0e-8b09-1f7b5e7ece06" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda7: TYPE="swap" UUID="9c26b88f-fdf0-4c2a-9761-e3adbd24bdfb"
/dev/sda8: UUID="6f421a36-1420-4692-89c1-19386a7440a9" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"


As "stormzen" I have also had problems with external HDD via USB...


> sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2fe02fdf

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1824    14651248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            1825       14596   102591090    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            3826       14596    86518026    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6            1825        3040     9767457   83  Linux
/dev/sda7            3041        3095      441756   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8            3096        3825     5863693+  83  Linux



(During the time since January 5, it has been work, but today it disappeared again. This was at my newer computer, about 5 years old (Pentium 4 CPU @ 2.40GHz, with 2GB RAM. BIOS from 2003.

I also have a 10 years old Packard Bell, Pentium 2 @ 450MHz, 376MB RAM (BIOS from 1998 (?)) with the same problem after upgrading to 7.10 - sometimes it seen and sometimes not. Before update I only saw it once... then it was gone. After 7.04 there is an error direct after startup saying that there is BIOS cut at the year 2000 shown on but I haven't noticed any other problems. )



kim@Ubuntu-PackardBell:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="a2f0da01-851a-430b-849e-7735c541813d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda2: UUID="3956-328D" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda5: TYPE="swap" UUID="b83294e4-0b7c-43a8-887c-d37cbef7bdc0"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="DIANA_PHOTO" UUID="5486-BD60" TYPE="vfat"

(Today it worked when I tried "blkid" above.) 

Below is the same output from the other computer (at this time the partions were seen!!!)

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root@Ubuntu-PackardBell:~# sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 12.7 GB, 12749635584 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1550 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000566ee

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1216     9767488+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            1217        1459     1951897+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda3            1460        1550      730957+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            1460        1550      730926   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 10.2 GB, 10240274432 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1244 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x07d907d9

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        1243     9984366    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
root@Ubuntu-PackardBell:~# 

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root@Ubuntu-PackardBell:/home/kim# more /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/hda1
UUID=a2f0da01-851a-430b-849e-7735c541813d /               ext3    defaults,error
s=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/hda2
UUID=3956-328D  /media/hda2     vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
# /dev/hdb1
UUID=5486-BD60  /media/hdb1     vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
# /dev/hda5
UUID=b83294e4-0b7c-43a8-887c-d37cbef7bdc0 none            swap    sw            
  0       0
/dev/cdrom        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/           /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
root@Ubuntu-PackardBell:/home/kim#