On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 23:37, Michael G. wrote: > > I have installed Mandrake 7.0 dual booting with Windows 98. > Both were fine. > I was even able to drag files from my Windows partition into my Linux > partition. > While using Linux, my computer locked up so I rebooted my computer. > When booting up into Linux everything was being listed as O.K.,O.K.,O.K. > except for a "Failed" for the Dos partition, saying things like "wrong fs > type" and "bad super block" ect. > Linux booted O.K and worked fine except I couldn't access any files from the > Windows partition as I could before. > When I rebooted the computer into DOS, I found DOS worked O.K but when I > executed Windows it told me it couldn't do it because HIMEM.sys wasn't > found. > When I did a "dir" of the windows directory I found that the HIMEM.sys was > listed. > When I went back to Linux I "mmount /dev/hda1" then it told me that > /dev/hda1 was busy. > When I "umount /dev/hda1" it told me that /dev/hda1 didn't exist. > What should I do to get my Windows partition back running again? ================================== What does /etc/fstab contain? Is /dev/hda1 mounted automatically on boot-up?? If not: Try mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos (or whatever your mount point is for windoze for this last part)
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