The system was missing my partition E, or my Storage partition. It was wiped out. Storage manager denoted it as unallocated space. A quick reboot into Ubuntu ended up with same knowledge: Unallocated space.
No space for panic. Google comes, google helps. I found a marvelous little command line tool which was able to revamp my Storage NTFS partition in about 10 seconds. It’s called testdisk.
You have Ubuntu 9.10. You own M-Audio Audiophile 2496 audio interface. And you can’t hear a thing? I had to deal with this twice. First time it was when I upgraded my Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. Everything was fine, except: my 2496 Audiophile stopped playing any sound at all. Daemon.log didn’t show any errors coming [...]