Yep. I'm having mounting problems with NTFS. I installed Knoppix to a seperate HDD since I liked it so much. Anyways, here's what I get when I try to mount.

root@0[knoppix]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda /mnt/hda
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

Now, when I was running the Live CD version(and the same disc I used to install Knoppix, mind you) It mounted without a problem. Which rules out tha possibility of it being a kernel problem.

Any suggestions?

In your mount line, you should have /dev/hdax, where x is the partition number. If there's only one partition on the disk, it should be /dev/hda1. I think that's what the problem is.

I already tried that... But here's what I get anyway. I wouldn't be getting a valid error message if I was doing it wrong like this...

root@0[knoppix]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda
mount: /dev/hda1 is not a valid block device
root@0[knoppix]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
mount: mount point /mnt/hda1 does not exist
root@0[knoppix]# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda /mnt/hda1
mount: mount point /mnt/hda1 does not exist

SATA ???

No. Just EIDE. Standard hard drive specs.

can you show me ls -l /dev/hda*?

and ls -ld /mnt??

and the output of fdisk -l

also what is the output of dmesg|tail? just the bit about the mounting atempt please....

are you trying to guess a partition number? Are you sure your NTFS partition is on /dev/hda1 ? Where is your NTFS drive, physically? Like "master first cable, partition 1"? Tell us, please.

root@1[~]$ ls -l /dev/hda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Oct 24 2001 /dev/hda
root@1[~]$ ls -ld /mnt
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 264 Aug 9 01:24 /mnt
root@1[~]$ fdisk -l
root@1[~]$ dmesg|tail
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.
Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed.

It's Primary Master. First partition... Also no other partitions will load on that disk. It's a Windont XP NTFS partition.

ok you didn't post /dev/hda* see the star!

your fstab is definately wrong. and what does cfdisk look like??

root@0[/]# ls -s /dev/hda*
0 /dev/hda 0 /dev/hda13 0 /dev/hda18 0 /dev/hda22 0 /dev/hda5
0 /dev/hda1 0 /dev/hda14 0 /dev/hda19 0 /dev/hda23 0 /dev/hda6
0 /dev/hda10 0 /dev/hda15 0 /dev/hda2 0 /dev/hda24 0 /dev/hda7
0 /dev/hda11 0 /dev/hda16 0 /dev/hda20 0 /dev/hda3 0 /dev/hda8
0 /dev/hda12 0 /dev/hda17 0 /dev/hda21 0 /dev/hda4 0 /dev/hda9
root@0[/]#
__________________________________________________________

cfdisk 2.12p

Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 40000020480 bytes, 40.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 4863

Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
hda1 Primary NTFS 39991.32
Pri/Log Free Space 8.23
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I went ahead and reformatted it...

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40000020480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4863 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 4862 39053983+ 7 HPFS/NTFS


And it seems to have worked... I can now mount. Thanks.

the error you are getting is because you have not created a folder for you to mount the ntfs partition to

you need to type mkdir /mnt/hda1

ror I tried that, but that didn't work. I think the disk was formatted in such a way that the NTFS drive didn't recognize it. But I reformatted the NTFS partition, and luckily I didn't lose any information, and it worked. The disk is working, so no need to worry. Thanks anyways. ^^