My computer has 2 drives, an 30 GB SSD with Ubuntu 12.04 installed on it, and a second 500 GB HDD for storage. I've checked all my BIOS settings, and searched through Ubuntu, and I can't figure out how to access my HDD on Ubuntu.
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        I assume that you cannot access the secondary, 500GB drive.
Open a terminal emulator and verify that the disk is recognized by the kernel:
egrep 'sd[a-z]' /proc/partitions
You'll probably see sda[0-9] and the second disk should usually be detected as sdb, but that depends on what other usb-storage devices are connected.
If the above command shows anything other that sda[0-9], try this
blkid | egrep 'sd[a-z]'
This will print a list of disks and/or partitions (depending on how your disks are configured) their UUIDs, file system types and labels (if applicable).
If you need more help, please paste output from those commands.
 
    
    
        Marcin Kaminski
        
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