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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