Mounting hard drive; Hello, where are you?

Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique) marc-bbkyySd1vPWsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org
Tue Oct 28 03:00:22 UTC 2003


Le 27 Octobre 2003 20:54, Madison Kelly a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
>    I am trying to do something very simple but it is being anything
> but... I have a laptop hard drive here that I am trying to image before
> I erase. Simple enough; I connect it as Master on the secondary channel,
> boot, '# mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/backup'... nothing. Try '#fdisk
> -l', nothing. I know that hardware-wise it's fine because I tried (uggh)
> booting my Win2k part and there it is seen fine. Also, on boot the BIOS
> sees it (not that it matters to Linux) and on powerdown it reports to
> flush HDC...

you did fdisk /dev/hdc?

>    So, does anyone have any idea why a seemingly fine connected FAT32
> hard drive (10GB) would not be seen by Linux's FDISK but it WOULD be
> found by Win2k? Isn't that pretty bass-ackwards? Any help is appreciated!
>
> Madison
>
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