I installed two phisical drives in my desktop one SSD and one hdd. I divided my single hard drive into three volumes(partitions). On Windows, they all worked perfectly. One volume vanished after I installed Manjaro on my desktop. The other two volumes are operational. One of them had a ‘can’t mount’ problem that has now been resolved. Please assist me in restoring that ‘E’ local disc.
Hi @ssbin,
Linux != Windows, so there are no A:, B:, C:, D: drives.
Please see 
for a better eexplanaation:
[Tutorial] Working with additional ‘drives’ - Contributions / Tutorials - Manjaro Linux Forum
Hope it helps!
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Can Windows see them all?
I suppose yes, because:
Or do you solely rely on Linux now?
I hope you took care not to install to this drive? 
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lsblk ✔
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 300M 0 part /boot/efi
└─sda2 8:2 0 931.2G 0 part /
sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 95.9G 0 part /run/media/rock/RockPort
├─sdb2 8:18 0 527M 0 part
├─sdb3 8:19 0 484M 0 part
├─sdb4 8:20 0 475M 0 part
├─sdb5 8:21 0 385.7G 0 part /run/media/rock/Genernal
├─sdb6 8:22 0 226.6G 0 part
├─sdb7 8:23 0 172.7G 0 part
└─sdb8 8:24 0 48.8G 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
I can see all the drives in window.
I now solely rely on linux now.
I took care - Manjaro is installed in a separate SSD, not on my hard disc.
Please provide the output of:
sudo fdisk -l
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sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: CT1000MX500SSD1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 364A7E44-726A-C04A-BE95-0E38AD47398B
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 4096 618495 614400 300M EFI System
/dev/sda2 618496 1953520064 1952901569 931.2G Linux filesystem
Disk /dev/sdb: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: ST1000DM003-1ER1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x524d96cf
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 63 718847 718785 351M 42 SFS
/dev/sdb2 718848 201745066 201026219 95.9G 42 SFS
/dev/sdb3 201745067 1953523119 1751778053 835.3G 42 SFS
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Perhaps also provide
lsblk -f
as it shows more information similar to fdisk -l
Can you identify which is which from the output?
Which are present and which is missing?
I’m not familiar with “SFS” as a filesystem (from the fdisk -l output)
I found these when briefly looking:
Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Mounting SFS Filesystem [SOLVED]
https://groups.google.com/g/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/c/NbVF2ksdAVk/m/-m26BiDVGGIJ?pli=1
Perhaps that can give you a clue what might have happened? I don’t know.
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There are only 2 drives connected to the computer.
If there are more in the computer, as you say, I suspect a faulty connection of whatever sort.
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Oh , yes I have only 2 phisical drives. A partition from one of the drive is missing… sorry…
Can you tell us
perhaps even based upon what output you already provided
and/or also based upon
lsblk -f
on which drive the missing partition is supposed to be?
Depending on what one looks at, there are 3 partitions
or 8 partitions
on /dev/sdb
Which drive is it missing from?
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lsblk -f ✔
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1 vfat FAT32 NO_LABEL 4D9D-E0D1 299.1M 0% /boot/efi
└─sda2 ext4 1.0 141f02ba-ea52-45f9-b4e6-04dc783dbe3f 832.8G 4% /
sdb
├─sdb1 ntfs RockPort F6AC2C03AC2BBD4D
├─sdb2
├─sdb3
├─sdb4
├─sdb5 ntfs Genernal 46F23AC9F23ABD4D
├─sdb6
├─sdb7
└─sdb8
sr0
may be it is sdb3.
The missing volume had low storage allocated than sdb5. as far as I remember
Try this instead.
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LANG=C sudo parted -l ✔
Model: ATA CT1000MX500SSD1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 2097kB 317MB 315MB fat32 boot, esp
2 317MB 1000GB 1000GB ext4 root
Model: ATA ST1000DM003-1ER1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 368MB 368MB primary
2 368MB 103GB 103GB primary ntfs
3 103GB 1000GB 897GB primary
Would those last messages explain why no file system is shown for two partitions? Would that be related to the present issue? 
I think so.
In windows I extended its size multiple times and it’s volume letter will be repeated many times in windows’s Disk Manager ( I think it broken into many pieces on the disk).
It’s looked like this but repeated more than that:
this screenshot is found on the internet
Could this be the cause?
It can be.
Another possibility would be the drive starting to fail, producing bad blocks at partition extremities.
S.M.A.R.T. - ArchWiki.
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