please help!.. external hard disk issues

[freakazo1d]

hello all,

 

I have a huge problem that i really hope someone can help me out with..

 

I have a hard disk used internally for my pc, running on XP.. saved lots of precious files in it.. I just got myself the new 15.4" MacBookPro to work on and i took out the hard disk, connect it to a USB adapter to copy files off it..

 

OSX detects the disk.. but doesnt mount it.. so, i cant get in the disk!.. it says something about the partition being a 'windows_ldm' format.

 

Did my search in google, and found a post here about a similar issue..

(http://forum.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t9937.html) so, i followed what the post suggests and used terminal to mount the disk using the sudo su command.. (im a newbie.. sorry) and it helped.. i was able to access the disk..

 

However.. the disk supposed to have 2 partitions.. but only one partition is detected,visible and accessible now.. What do i do to get in the other partition??...

 

Please someone help me.. its my work portfolio since 2002..

 

thank you...

[hecker]

Each partition must be mounted separately. So repeat what you did to mount the first partition, but use a different partition IDENTIFIER.

 

For Example, if you had used the following to mount the first partition:

sudo su
mkdir /Volumes/Storage
mount_ntfs /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/Storage

Then you would have to do the same but replacing disk1s1 by disk1s2 (assuming the missing partition is the second in the list).

 

To find out which identifier refers to which partition, enter the following command in the terminal:

diskutil list

It will present you with a list of your drives and their respective partitions + identifiers in a diskXsY format (where X is the number of the drive/disk and Y is the number of the partition. Look for the drive in question and note the correct identifier for the missing partition.

 

Remember to create a directory for the new partition before mounting it. Like /Volumes/Storage2 or something.

 

Good luck!

[freakazo1d]

thank you for the super quick reply..

 

i did the "diskutil list" command in terminal.. and it lists only one partition on the hard disk.. but i know for sure that i have 2 partitions in the hard disk when i used to use it on my PC.. i always have 2 partitions for my hard disks..

 

Is there something wrong with the hard disk?..