Your windows partition might not be formatted as fat32, try mounting it as
ms-dos fat16
Ashley Moore
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Subject: [LIH] mount failing on fat32
>
> When I try to mount a fat32 partition as:
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dosc
> I get the following error:
>
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> [me=0xf8,cs=8,#f=2,fs=32,fl=0,ds=32,de=0,data=32,se=0,ts=1939329,ls=512]
> Transaction block size = 512
> VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:01.
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
>
> When I run fdisk, the following is the output:
> Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 1 481 969664+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 482 482 514 66528 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda3 515 515 1023 1026144 83 Linux native
>
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> What could be going wrong ?
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