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Old 11-25-2007, 08:12 AM   #1
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Mounting Problem - NTFS/SFS - Large Dynamic Drive


Hi, I migrated from WIN2K to Linux this summer.
Now I've run into some problem.

Yesterday I bought i new hard drive so i could copy the content of my old NTFS drives and make EXT drives of them, and also there's a LAN comming up.
Everything went smoothly until i tried to mount an WD 320GB drive.

As you can see my drive is partioned into two, the problem is that it's not supposed to be:
Code:
fdisk -l

...

Disk /dev/hdf: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdf1               1       16709   134215011   42  SFS
/dev/hdf2           16710       38913   178353630   42  SFS

...
I've tried to mount it with ntfsmount (ntfsprogs 2.0.0)
with mount /./. /./. -t fuse.ntfs
and with mount /./. /./. -t ntfs-3g
Code:
mount /dev/hdf1 /disks/WD320 -t ntfs-3g -o gid=adm,umask=003
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument
Failed to mount '/dev/hdf': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/hdf' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?
AND
Code:
mount /dev/hdf /disks/WD320 -t ntfs-3g -o gid=adm,umask=003
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument
Failed to mount '/dev/hdf': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/hdf' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?
(don't know in wich log to find the other mounts)

But i can only mount hdf1, not hdf2. When hdf1 is mounted i can see the content but not copy or read it.
As you can see i could't mount it at all with ntfs-3g

Don't know if i missed something, but i tried to find anything that would help me, but no luck...

(and i'm sorry if i got my english wrong...)
 
Old 11-25-2007, 09:06 AM   #2
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have you tried to repair it under windows ?

Take care, Windows signs hard disk, so you won't copy bit to bit your NTFS partitions.
 
Old 11-25-2007, 09:12 AM   #3
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I did'nt keep windows.
 
Old 11-25-2007, 09:19 AM   #4
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how did you make your copy ?
 
Old 11-25-2007, 01:43 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Fantasio View Post
how did you make your copy ?
what do you mean?

If you talking about copy data from NTFS drive to EXT drive so i as i said i've bought a hard drive yesterday. So i had an empty drive do start with.

I've allredy copied data from other NTFS drives back and forward to get the drives in EXT FS. I only have problem with this 320 GB drive.
All drives are in linux format except for this drive.
 
Old 11-26-2007, 11:57 AM   #6
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May I mistake, but NTFS under Linux is still under development !

For me, there's a mistake on your partition ID, it should be 7 not 42.

Did you reboot after partitioning ?


See the list below (fdisk):
Command (m for help): L

0 Empty 1e Hidden W95 FAT1 80 Old Minix be Solaris boot
1 FAT12 24 NEC DOS 81 Minix / old Lin bf Solaris
2 XENIX root 39 Plan 9 82 Linux swap / So c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
3 XENIX usr 3c PartitionMagic 83 Linux c4 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
4 FAT16 <32M 40 Venix 80286 84 OS/2 hidden C: c6 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
5 Extended 41 PPC PReP Boot 85 Linux extended c7 Syrinx
6 FAT16 42 SFS 86 NTFS volume set da Non-FS data
7 HPFS/NTFS 4d QNX4.x 87 NTFS volume set db CP/M / CTOS / .
8 AIX 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 88 Linux plaintext de Dell Utility
9 AIX bootable 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 8e Linux LVM df BootIt
a OS/2 Boot Manag 50 OnTrack DM 93 Amoeba e1 DOS access
b W95 FAT32 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 94 Amoeba BBT e3 DOS R/O
c W95 FAT32 (LBA) 52 CP/M 9f BSD/OS e4 SpeedStor
e W95 FAT16 (LBA) 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux a0 IBM Thinkpad hi eb BeOS fs
f W95 Ext'd (LBA) 54 OnTrackDM6 a5 FreeBSD ee EFI GPT
10 OPUS 55 EZ-Drive a6 OpenBSD ef EFI (FAT-12/16/
11 Hidden FAT12 56 Golden Bow a7 NeXTSTEP f0 Linux/PA-RISC b
12 Compaq diagnost 5c Priam Edisk a8 Darwin UFS f1 SpeedStor
14 Hidden FAT16 <3 61 SpeedStor a9 NetBSD f4 SpeedStor
16 Hidden FAT16 63 GNU HURD or Sys ab Darwin boot f2 DOS secondary
17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 64 Novell Netware b7 BSDI fs fd Linux raid auto
18 AST SmartSleep 65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap fe LANstep
1b Hidden W95 FAT3 70 DiskSecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid ff BBT
1c Hidden W95 FAT3 75 PC/IX
 
Old 11-26-2007, 12:40 PM   #7
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The partioning on the HDF drive is done under windows. A dynamic drive over 200 GB becomes partioned, but you dont see it.

The other drives that where dynamic also had the ID 42, and SFS as FS, but they were under 200 GB (one partion) so i only needed to mount them as NTFS to copy from them...

I dont need to be able to write to the disk, i only want to be able to copy the content to a drive with Linux FS.
 
  


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