On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 06:49:06 -0400 Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<SNIP> > > When I do an "ls /mnt/windows", it gives the error "ls: reading > > directory /mnt/windows: Input/output error". Also, when I boot with > > a DOS boot disk, I can not even see any drive letter (such as C:, > > D:...) but only the floppy drive A: > > > > So I guess the other part of my question is, if I want to reinstall > > Windows XP, how can I get back my C: drive letter in the first > > place? > > > > Thanks in advance for any pointer, > > > > Best regards, > > > > Mathieu. > > Please post a copy of your /etc/fstab file. For the record, I am > pretty sure that Mandrake does not mount an ntfs partition using > /mnt/windows, more like /mnt/win_c or something like that. Could be > the fstab settings are not correct under the entry for windows. > > -- > Bryan Phinney > Software Test Engineer > > yes it mounts as "win_cX" where X is a number of the partition. In my case: /dev/hda1 11G 6.6G 3.5G 66% /mnt/win_c /dev/hdd1 42G 26G 16G 63% /mnt/win_c2 /dev/hda5 77G 16G 62G 20% /mnt/win_d FF
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