Hi all,
I'm a newbie here and I need help to mount the windows partition.
I'm currently using Mandrake 9.0. The first time it boots up, it tried to mount the /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1 but both received a fail message.
It says: bad fs type, bad option, or too many mounted fs.

What's wrong with that?
FYI, before installing Mandrake, I used Red Hat 8 and installed the NTFS support. It worked for a while and after I updated the kernel, it began to show the error message. =(

Please help....

Here is my /etc/fstab:

/dev/hdd1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdd6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=flatcap,umask=0227,ro,gid=winuser,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows2 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=flatcap,ro,umask=0227,umask=0,gid=winuser 0 0
none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd5 swap swap defaults 0 0

Thanks in advance,
ab84h

It might already be mounted. Check /mnt/windows and /mnt/windows2 and see.

Also, post here what typing "mount" into a terminal returns.

Cool

nope...nothing in both of the directory...
here is the result when i type mount:

/dev/hdd1 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
/dev/hdd6 on /home type ext3 (rw)
none on /mnt/cdrom type supermount (ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
none on /mnt/zip type supermount (rw,dev=/dev/sda4,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)

thanks

I log in as root right now and using KwikDisk to try mounting the windows partition and I got this error:

Called: mount -tntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=flatcap,umask=0227,ro,gid=winuser,umask=0
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems

Any idea why this could happen?

I'd take out those options, try this:

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

And that's it. Do that in a term and as root.

Cool

It works....thank you so much. I can hear my mp3 through X now
Just one more question...is there anyway to call it automatically without typing that command everytime I log in?
The option in the fstab should mount it automatically but it fails. Any idea what's wrong with it?

Thanks again

I don't know what option "winuser" is, and here's my entry although it's for fat32:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0

So I am not sure if maybe that winuser is what's going wrong, or maybe you need more umask options, try placing 2 more numbers after umask, so it looks like this:/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=flatcap,umask=0227,ro,gid=winuser,umask=022 0 0

First things first though, always backup files like this before "Tweaking" them. So in a term:
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.old

That way if something gets jacked up and you can't boot, all you have to do is go into rescue mode and move /etc/fstab.old back to /etc/fstab with:
mv /etc/fstab.old /etc/fstab

Cool