[Ilugc] Aproblem in mounting windows partion

From: karthikeyan.balasubramanian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (karthikeyan)
Date: Wed Sep 1 03:03:06 2004

Hi Mallik,

Mallik, Raja (GE Consumer & Industrial) wrote:

My machine has /dev/hda1 to /dev/hda5 for windows 2000 runing as dual boot. I
am running Redhat 9.0 on the remaing partition.

Recemtly , in linux box, I tried to use "dump2fs" shell comand as root for all
windows partition, and my system hanged. I rebooted but not able load Window
anymore..boot loader failed..

I could boot with linux, and ran "sfdisk -L" . It should me : /dev/hda1,
/dev/hda2/ and /dev/hda5 as system ID of file system as "No File System"

How ever other /dev/hda3 shown as "Windows fat32"

whent I tried "mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/Windows" ..It showed
mount: /dev/hda2 is not a valid block device

also I tried "mount -o /dev/hda1 remount,rw 0 0"

I want to some how recover data from these drives .. any pointer?
help!!!
-Raja Mallik
9885044135

Just try this and let me know what error you get.

$ su -
---->login as root
$ mkdir /mnt/win_d
$ mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d

Karthikeyan B

[Ilugc] Aproblem in mounting windows partion

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