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Topic: Need some help with a harddrive mounting issue., Can't get on to my harddrive!

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anaconda

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Posted: Mar. 21 2006,08:13

Hmmm..

That partition table seems to be OK!

If it would have been corrupted like what I meant. It would have looked something like this:
(Windows and knoppix still understood this!!??)

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 ? 15078801+ 16439200- 1360400- 84344761 69 Unknown
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,1,62) found (68,13,10)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,1,62) found (288,115,43)
/dev/sda2 ? 13721931+ 28801620- 15079690- 934940732+ 73 Unknown
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,1,62) found (371,114,37)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,1,62) found (366,32,33)
/dev/sda3 ? 20+ 20- 0 0 74 Unknown
/dev/sda4 0 27702527 27702528 1717556736 0 Empty
start: (c,h,s) expected (0,0,1) found (0,0,0)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,1,62) found (0,0,0)

interesting problem.. Obiviously DSL can see that there is a hda (sfdisk sees hda), but still not able to mount..

Sorry I haven't got more ideas..
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doobit

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Posted: Mar. 21 2006,14:18

Quote (Cammo @ Mar. 20 2006,16:45)

Thanks for the reply!

Manual mounting didn't work. That geometry thing sounds kinda right though... knoppix was fine but 3 different DSL's I had didn't work at all.
By the way, I managed to catch the errors. They occured when creating Fstab, and said modules xfs.o, minix.o, efs.o and hfs.o could not be found (or something along those lines.)

Thanks again!

Those look like file system drivers to read macintosh file systems, like when you use an emulator. Are you using the embedded version of DSL?

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Cammo

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Posted: Mar. 21 2006,17:05

Nope! Just booting off of a Live CD.

I also remembered that I didn't actually use windows to format it waaaay back in the day, I used the maxtor software that came with my drive. So that would explain why the partition table is OK.

Seems like an anomaly of a problem, hopefully someone can come up with a solution!

anaconda

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Posted: Mar. 22 2006,13:25

Well. one soulution could be:

I have read from somewhere, that there is a filemanager for linux, which doesn't need the drives to be mounted. Instead it accesses the /dev/hda1 etc. directly.

But can't remember which filemanager it is