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fdisk -l shows a partition is not in /dev directory

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Mar 15, 20269705 views
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Problem

I am having troubles on mounting my NTFS hard drive on Linux. I am running Ophcrack live CD. shows me the hard drive I have installed on my computer. but I don't have that device on my directory, so I cannot mount it. What could be going on?

Error Output

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdc: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

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Fix for: fdisk -l shows a partition is not in /dev directory

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You may create this node manually: Then you should check if can be read Either kernel can't find a partition, or udev doesn't create this node automatically. udev is responsible of creation of this files If manual creation of /dev/hdc1 will fail, yo…

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