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

From: bokluk (bokluk33_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/14/04

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    > > convinced that my first hard disk c: or hda1 is broken because I was
    > > even unable to format this disk under windows, so I tried SUSE "just
    > > for fun" and it installed promptly and was running fine ever since ....),
    > > so I can not try whether the 2nd disk hdc1 is still accessible under
    > > windows but I believe it is ...
    >
    > Hmm, I am beginning too doubt this.

    Hi Eric,

    thanks for your comments. I am pretty sure that the 2nd hard
    disk hdc1 is FAT32, I really can not remember reformatting it
    to NTFS because I had data on it when I switched from Win 98SE
    (fat32) to Win2000 (ntfs) ...

    > Try the following mount command:
    >
    > mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows
    >
    > Do not specify a filesystem. See if it can be detected
    > automatically.

    linux:/mnt # mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows
    mount: you must specify the filesystem type

    ....so this didn't really work without mentioning a file system ...

    > Does the following command reveil anything:
    >
    > sudo dd if=/dev/hdc1 count=10 | file -

    linux:/home # sudo dd if=/dev/hdc1 count=10 | file -
    10+0 records in
    10+0 records out
    /dev/stdin: data

    .... I don't know whether that 'data' shows up by accident
    but "data" was the name of my 2nd hard disk under windows ...

    best regards
    bokluk

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