Re: Mounting large Windows ME disk?
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 22:02:40 -0600,
Larry Hunter <hunter@180glencoe.com> wrote in message
<[🔎] E19r8Yy-0000NY-00@basement.180glencoe.com>:
>
> Folks,
>
> I'm trying to add an 80GB Maxtor 4D080H4 (IDE) disk from a Windows ME
> machine (with lots of valuable data on it) to a current Debian
> unstable system. When I try to mount it, I get
>
> basement:~# mount /dev/hdb1 /opt
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> Same thing happens if I try to specify -t vfat (or auto or msdos or
> umsdos) as the file system type.
..ntfs? No hardware problem such as fried chips?
> fdisk and friends seem to see the disk with what appear to be a few
> minor problems, and nothing I can see a way to fix/change. The disk
> does not have to remain as an FAT filesystem, but I definitely need
> the data, and don't have anything big enough to back it up onto. If I
> absolutely have to, I will buy another disk so that I can just copy
> everything from the Windows machine to the Debian one, but I'd rather
> just move the disk.
>
> I've tried everything I can think of, and hope that someone out there
> can help. Here's a bunch of potentially relevant information in the
> hope that somebody sees something useful in it.
..snip.
> So, any ideas?
..your box supports disks this big? I had to update bios for
2 of mine.
..dd, split, cat and a cd or dvd toaster and its docs is a
viable way in the _ugly_ case.
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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