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Re: windows partition not usable



On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:45:05PM +0000, Hans-Gerhard Schrick wrote:
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/hda4       /               reiserfs notail          0       1
> /dev/hda3       none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> /dev/hda2       /mnt/win        fat32  rw,noauto            0 	0
> Here is my /etc/fstab. I don't remember, whether I wrote the last line
> by myself. But with the program testdisk partition 2 is a FAT32 LBA.

What error do you get when, as root, to run:
# mount /mnt/win

?

Also, while it should work, I think fat filesystems need some extra
parameters to take care of things like UID/GID and encoding (e.g. UTF
type) since fat doesn't know about either.


> 
> TestDisk 6.5, Data Recovery Utility, October 2006
> Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
> http://www.cgsecurity.org
> 
> Disk /dev/hda - 100 GB / 93 GiB - CHS 12161 255 63
> Current partition structure:
>      Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
>  1 P Compaq Diagnostics       0   1  1   381 254 63    6136767
>  2 * FAT32 LBA              382   0  1  6239 254 63   94108770 [ACER]
>  3 P Linux Swap            6240   0  1  6435 254 63    3148740
>  4 P Linux                 6436   0  1 12160 254 63   91972125
> 
> Perhaps you know now, how I can bring my windows partition to work. I
> really only need it for dragon naturally speaking and cdex. I haven't
> tried grip yet.


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