I already managed to install Ubuntu 20.04 along with Windows 10 on my new PC. I have two SSD drives: one NVMe M.2 and one SATA 3, and both systems are installed on the former drive. The 2-TB SATA SSD only serves as a data drive. On Windows, I can access all the files and data on this drive without any problems. But the Ubuntu system can't recognize it -- specifically, the drive can be detected but the file system is "unknown" when viewed on GParted. Excepted for this strange issue, Ubuntu works just fine. How can I access this drive on Ubuntu without destroying (or formatting) the data?
Here's the background information about my system settings:
- The fast boot settings (either the fast startup on Windows or fast boot on BIOS) are off after I started to install Ubuntu, as checked just now.
- The SATA configuration is set to AHCI on BIOS.
- This drive, when viewed on Windows, is NTFS, has only one partition (basic), and does not show any errors that need to be checked.
Here is the output of lsblk. The sda drive is what I am talking about. I noticed that both sda1 and sda2 don't have an NTFS label. On the other hand, the Windows system partition is nvme0n1p4 which is mountable.
whyj@WhyJ-Ubuntu:~$ lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT
NAME FSTYPE LABEL SIZE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 squashfs 91M /snap/core/6350
loop1 squashfs 140.7M /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/100
loop2 squashfs 140.7M /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/74
loop3 squashfs 97.9M /snap/core/10577
loop4 squashfs 64.8M /snap/gtk-common-themes/1514
loop5 squashfs 3.7M /snap/gnome-system-monitor/57
loop6 squashfs 55.4M /snap/core18/1944
loop7 squashfs 2.2M /snap/gnome-system-monitor/148
loop8 squashfs 217.9M /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/60
loop9 squashfs 51M /snap/snap-store/518
loop10 squashfs 34.6M /snap/gtk-common-themes/818
sda 1.8T
├─sda1 16M
└─sda2 1.8T
nvme0n1 931.5G
├─nvme0n1p1 ntfs Recovery 529M
├─nvme0n1p2 vfat 99M /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p3 16M
├─nvme0n1p4 ntfs 465.1G /media/whyj/B6E83AA2E83A6133
└─nvme0n1p5 ext4 465.8G /
And here's the output of sudo file -s /dev/sda{,1,2}:
whyj@WhyJ-Ubuntu:~$ sudo file -s /dev/sda{,1,2}
/dev/sda: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 : ID=0xee, start-CHS (0x0,0,2), end-CHS (0x20,254,63), startsector 1, 4294967295 sectors, extended partition table (last)
/dev/sda1: data
/dev/sda2: data
I also tried manually mounting the drive, but it always show this error message:
whyj@WhyJ-Ubuntu:~$ mkdir ~/ddrive
whyj@WhyJ-Ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda2 ~/ddrive
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
It shows the same output even I change -t ntfs to -t ntfs-3g or -t auto. I tried to mount /dev/sda as a whole with no luck. Any ideas/solutions would be much appreciated.
