Mounting hard drive; Hello, where are you?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:54:18PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
>   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...
> 
>   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!

Might it be a MS dynamic partition table rather than the older DOS style
partition table?

Linux can support the new type if compiled to support it.  Not sure.

Lennart Sorensen
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