cant mount fat 32 in ubuntu

[frieze06]

well this is what i did to mount my fat 32 drive

e.g. Assumed that /dev/hda1 is the location of Windows partition (FAT)
Local mount folder: /media/windows



sudo mkdir /media/windows
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup
sudo gedit /etc/fstab



/dev/hda1 /media/windows vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0






but its still not working.. i still dont see the drive anywhere can anyone help.. by the way my drive is hdb1 so i didn't do that wrong.. i am kinda new to this and i really would like to have all my media

[Vergil83]

try making the line in your /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1   /media/windows  vfat  noauto,users,rw,exec   1  0

[aysiu]

Did you reboot the computer?

[frieze06]

yeah i have done everything it doesn't work.. i guess my fat 32 hard drive is hdb5.. but how do i know for sure? and should it be vfat for type or fat32.. i got my windows ntfs partician working but thats useless cause i habe no music or anything on that and i cant write to it

[frieze06]

oh nevermind.. i had to make it hdb5.. thanks for your help though

[Cool Surfer]

try making the line in your /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1   /media/windows  vfat  noauto,users,rw,exec   1  0

Hi Vergil

I dont have root access, dunno if I forgot the pwd, but i usually keep the same passwords for user and root while testing an OS.

I get the error - permission denied.

the fstab file opens in read only mode.
Anyway to edit t pl. I dont have access to my windows partitions.

Regards

James