FC6 won't mount Windows drive /dev/hda1

FC6 mainly rocks (or even ROCKS! as somebody else has stated) but my
experience with new versions, confirmed again with FC5 -> FC6, is that they
are always a case of "two steps forward, one step back".

Two steps forward: at last my (frankly not very eccentric) audio card is
recognised and can be used (never the case in FC3-5); and I get video in an
amazing 1280x1024 resolution, just like in Windows, whereas with FC3-5 it's
always been less well presented than this.

One step back: I did a limited clean install because an attempted upgrade
FC5 -> 6 failed (new version started with a "grub" prompt presented to
screen) and an attempted full install (right-click then say Yes to
everything) failed at BIND DNS Server ("file conflict" . ?). I've tried more
than one such limited installation, all concluded successfully, but at every
success the story is the same: FC6 will not mount the Windows filesystem on
the C: drive (FAT32 at /dev/hda1). It must in a sense "know" it's there (a)
because the grub boot sector is located at /MBR and (b) any typed explicit
instruction to "mount -t vfat -o posix,shortname=winnt /dev/hda1 /c" is
always successful. But the equivalent instruction in /etc/fstab is either
ignored or not understood, I don't know which. The hard drive is an
unexceptional 120G IDE drive FAT32 LBA (forgotten, comes up as type c I
think with fdisk -l, once it's been mounted by hand).

Has anybody experienced this problem and can tell me how to crack it: ie.
what instruction should I write in /etc/fstab that is different from
/dev/hda1 /c vfat user,noauto,exec,rw,posix,shortname=winnt 0 0
and which will be implemented? By the way mkdir /c has already been done,
that's not the cause. (By the way, strangely, FC6 picks up two USB drives
and a USB stick AND a digital camera without any difficulty at all.

Thank you.

Fergus

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