Hello everyone!
I am having a problem with one of the partitions not showing up after installing Fedora
I need to mention the this is a fresh install and i haven’t used it previously. I’ve used the fdisk -l command and on the affected hard drive it said in red “Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.” what can i do now? thanks!
Is the hard drive involved the one that you just installed fedora onto?
no, i installed fedora onto a ssd while the affected hdd is used to store all the important data and it’s split into 2 partitions. one of the partitions is showing while the other is not, neither are all the files
What is the ouput of ’lsblk -f`?
This will tell us what partitions your system can see.
Please post as preformatted text, not a screen shot, using the </> button.
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1 ntfs Backups 6E6A56686A562CD9
└─sda2 ntfs Arhi & Design F8205CCF205C970A
sdb
├─sdb1
├─sdb2
└─sdb3 ntfs Storage&Archive 2A54D7BB54D787C9 4.8G 99% /run/media/rei/Storage&Archive
sdc
├─sdc1 vfat FAT32 DBA4-C175 579.5M 3% /boot/efi
├─sdc2 ext4 1.0 e93fda87-c99c-4858-8bd5-f8e7e6758875 627M 29% /boot
└─sdc3 btrfs fedora dbdc55f8-b7ee-4b64-bda5-fb7c4c465049 448.5G 3% /home
/
sdd
zram0 [SWAP]
also, this is the full output of the fdisk -l
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1 ntfs Backups 6E6A56686A562CD9
└─sda2 ntfs Arhi & Design F8205CCF205C970A
sdb
├─sdb1
├─sdb2
└─sdb3 ntfs Storage&Archive 2A54D7BB54D787C9 4.8G 99% /run/media/rei/Storage&Archive
sdc
├─sdc1 vfat FAT32 DBA4-C175 579.5M 3% /boot/efi
├─sdc2 ext4 1.0 e93fda87-c99c-4858-8bd5-f8e7e6758875 627M 29% /boot
└─sdc3 btrfs fedora dbdc55f8-b7ee-4b64-bda5-fb7c4c465049 448.5G 3% /home
/
sdd
zram0 [SWAP]
it seems that the 2 partitions of the 2tb drive became a single one
You were expecting to see partitions on sdb1 and sdb2?
Was sdb1 or sdb2 encrypted with windows bitlocker by any chance?
i had no encription whatsoever
here is an image grabbed from gparted/ sdb3 should be 2 different partitions and i think that they somehow got merged
Its clear from that image that there was only one data partition of sdb.
Do you see your files on that partition?
no, i can’t see any 
There are 671GiB of data in that partition.
What does this report?
ls -la /run/media/rei/Storage\&Archive
Note: you have to quote the ’&`.
this is the output:
total 40
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 4096 Feb 16 12:54 .
drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 60 Feb 16 16:15 ..
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 4096 May 15 2023 '$RECYCLE.BIN'
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 0 Mar 26 2023 BACKUPS
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 4096 Aug 2 2024 BIBLIOTECA
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 0 Jun 20 2024 'BULK DOWNLOAD'
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 4096 Mar 26 2023 Filme
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 0 Mar 24 2021 msdownld.tmp
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 0 Jul 8 2021 Music
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 0 Nov 26 2023 PHOTOS
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 0 Dec 11 2021 'Program Files'
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 4096 Dec 26 2021 'System Volume Information'
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 16384 May 15 2023 Videos
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 4096 Dec 18 2021 WindowsApps
drwxrwxrwx. 1 rei rei 0 Dec 11 2021 WpSystem
Also i’ve found on some other forum a possible solution, using testdisk and i’ve run an analysis of the drive and this is what it came back:
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 243201 255 63
The hard disk (2000 GB / 1863 GiB) seems too small! (< 5023633 TB / 4568967 TiB)
Check the hard disk size: HD jumper settings, BIOS detection...
The following partitions can't be recovered:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
> MS Data 2048030719 4536168446 2488137728
MS Data 2048032767 4096032766 2048000000
MS Data 2048032768 4536170495 2488137728 [Base]
BeFS 2757790408 9811783604800199 9811780847009792 [ ~LM-3)Z= cE7^Zm~FM-2)M-~nĎcE!5W~IM-2)~?]
Mac HFS 2959716070 4138578151 1178862082 [M-*M-orw^B]
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NTFS, blocksize=4096, 1273 GB / 1186 GiB
What does windows show for sdb?
Is windows still installed ? Disable fastboot as otherwise the drive/partition may not be properly unmounted.
Btw, you shouldn’t use a NTFS partition to store important data on a Fedora system. NTFS should only be written by MS OSes- use ext4, xfs, btrfs instead of you can.