Re: mounting fat32 IDE hard disk error: "does not contain valid partition table"

From: bokluk (bokluk33_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: 8 Sep 2004 21:12:27 -0700

Hi Eric, hi Michael,

thanks a lot for your comments, I really appreciate any help.

Unfortunately, I am still stuck with my problem, i.e. I still can not
mount the 2nd hard disk and I still receive the same error messages.

Before posting my help message I was, of course, trying to mount
the 2nd hard disk as NTFS first. Actually, I thought it was NTFS but
then the fdisk command replied with FAT32. Anyway, both attempts
of mounting it with NTFS or FAT32 result in the same error message
which is "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc1,
or too many mounted file systems". In both cases I still get that error
message saying "Disk /dev/hdc1 doesn't contain a valid partition table" !!!

I tried the dd command even though I didn't really get the purpose
of it, anyway here is what linux answered:

# dd if=/dev/hdc1 count=1|strings
1+0 records in
1+0 records out

The same result for /dev/hda1 .... does that help ????

thanks again
bokluk

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