I'm sorry if I'm being too vague, but it is hard to specifically tell you what to look for, as I am not there to see your drive.

No, you are being awesome. I'm just worried there's something more I should be telling you so you can help me.

This is what I got:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa07c6d7c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13075 105023913+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 13076 60801 383359095 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 13076 60052 377342721 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 60053 60801 6016311 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xab93a363

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 30401 244196001 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


I have no idea what any of that means. I know this, I have a 500GB harddrive, partitioned into 100GB on the Windows Vista side and 400 GB on the Ubuntu 9.02 side. My external is 250 GB, and so I think it's saying that it reads the existence of my external.

So, if I wanted to mount the root I would go: sudo mount /dev/sbd ?