Unable to mount ntfs partition

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Unable to mount ntfs partition
started by: northface

Posted by northface on Jan. 11 2006,23:53

I am running dsl 2.0 on hp pavillion 2.9mhz 512mb ram. however when i run fdisk -l, nothing happens. i have added to /etc/fstab as a test in addition to /etc/mtab.
*Note when i did try to mount the hda it said something about ide-scsi? sr0 & sda. isnt sda refering to the pendrives? I dont have one yet. I did check the dmesg but nothing caught my eye.
to mount i used this:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd -o ro,umask=000
the machine i run dsl on is the family computer and I am just trying to figure out how to do this so if windows ever goes out i will be able to rescue data. from reading the message board postings ntfs seems harder to mount that fat32 partitions.
one other thing to add...on the d:\ drive there is a bunch of rescue utilities that hp put there. the boot.ini is hidden there as well as some other things. i check disk management to make sure that i was referring to the correct partition. disk 0 partition 1. the arc path also refers to the same place.
from working with dsl i have come to two conclusions:
1. the hp rescue utilities are somehow hindering the mount command, or,
2. i am not mounting it correctly.

I have checked all the message boards [all that I could find] and tried everything that was suggested. if anyone can get back to me on this I would appreciate it.

Thank You,
NorthFace

Posted by northface on Jan. 12 2006,00:10

one thing i forgot to add was the size of the ntfs partition that i am trying to mount is 142 gb. would this be a problem? i wouldnt think so, but i thought that i would add that to help anyone help me. also cmdcons are located on the d:\ drive; would that be the cause of the problem?

Northface

Posted by pr0f3550r on Jan. 12 2006,00:39

If you have a D:\ drive and that's not a removable drive, then that's second partition of your hard drive, so you'd have to mount both partitions (/hda1 and /hda2).

Sda can be a scsi disk or anything which is not a ide disk, including a usb device.

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 12 2006,17:45

Is this a new computer?

If you go to the MSWindows device manager, does it refer to the drive controller as an SATA controller?

If so, try booting with the

dsl sata

boot command (Assumes DSL version 2.1)

Then you can access your drives simply with:

mount /mnt/sda1

or

mount /mnt/sda2

depending on the location of the data partition on the hard drive.

Posted by northface on Jan. 16 2006,07:04

ok i used the dsl sata as suggested by cbagger

i wrote down the error message that dsl gave me when i tried to mount the hd.

mount: wrong fs type,bad option,bad superblock on /dev/hda1,or too many mounted filesystems
(could this be the IDE device where you infact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

i will experiment more with what cbagger suggested.

thanks northface