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I installed mandrake 9.2 rc2 on a seperate hard drive from my windows xp drive, and then i decided to put my xp drive back in my computer. I didn't have any trouble setting up a dual boot system, but i can't access my windows files from linux. whenever i try mounting my xp drive i get this error:
Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems
I don't think i have too many mounted file systems, just my cd rom and floppy, and i've heard that mandrake is supposed to be able to read ntfs. also, i checked in my mnt/windows directory and there's nothing in it. anyone know how i can mount my windows drive? I'm not very good at commands either, so go easy on me.
ok, I tried your settings in the fstab and I get the same error as you. I'm pretty sure getting rid of iocharset and codepage options will fix it.
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hd ntfs user,noauto,exec,umask=0 0 0
you could also try
/dev/hda1/ /mnt/hd ntfs user,noauto,exec,iocharset=utf8,umask=0 0 0
AWESOME! the first line fixed it! I was starting to worry it would never work. Hopefully if anyone else has this problem they can figure it out from here.
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