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

From: Eric Moors (scare.crow_at_oz.land)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 08:35:21 +0200

> 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".

This starts to sound as if hdc1 is not formatted.

> In both cases I still get that error
> message saying "Disk /dev/hdc1 doesn't contain a valid partition table"
> !!!

That is a message of fdisk. Don't do 'fdisk /dev/hdc1'
Like Michael already said, partitions do not have a partition table.
Therefor the message of fdisk is completely as I would have expected,

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

The purpose was to see if hdc1 contained an NTFS filesystem.
Can you still read the disk in windows?

Eric

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