help mounting 2nd partition on WinXP drive
I have a dual-boot system with two HD's. The first hard disk (hda) has WinXP with a "c-drive" partition (hda1) and a "d-drive" partition (hda2). The second hard drive has RH9 running.
This is my second install of RH9. I used to be able to mount both hda1 and hda2 partitions from Linux. However, when I re-installed RH9 I can only mount hda1 partition. When I try to mount hda2 partition I receive the following message: [root@localhost dosd]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/dosd mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some logical partition inside?) I have no idea why I could mount the hda2 partition previously, but now cannot. The second install was a clean install after having tried some other linux distribution. Any ideas of what I can do to access my files on the hda2 partition? I know that I can always boot into WinXP and copy the necessary files to the hda1 partition, but I am running out of room, and would prefer to access the hda2 partition. Is there a way to make RH9 "see" the hda2 partition? Or do I have to do another clean install? |
If you're not sure that your FAT partition (D) is /dev/hda2 , use #fdisk -l /dev/hda (as root), the -l flag list the partition table on hda.
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Thank you for the help! From the listing I discovered that my second WinXP partition is hda5 and not hda2 as I had assumed! Now I can access my files with ease.
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