need help mounting windows partition

[funkpirate]

I have one hard drive, 80 gigs. Four partitions: 3 windows, 1 linux. They are as follows: C = partion with windows on it, D = music partition, E = games etc, and finally my Linux partition. I can mount C drive using

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 (mnt position

. However, I cannot mount hda2, which I am assuming is my D drive. It says
"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some logical partition inside?)"
Please help, thanks in advance.

[sarumont]

First off: Is it an NTFS partition?

If not, post the output of this command:

/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda

It could be a logical partition inside of an extended partition. In which case it would be hda3.

[funkpirate]

Ah thanks bro! DId the trick

[td873]

Original Question:

First off: Is it an NTFS partition?
If not, post the output of this command:

Code:
/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda

Answer (that saved my life ;):

It could be a logical partition inside of an extended partition. In which case it would be hda3.

That just saved me a major headache and so much time. It was hda3...

Thanks.

-td

[ksachari]

I have one hard drive, 80 gigs. Four partitions: 3 windows, 1 linux. They are as follows: C = partion with windows on it, D = music partition, E = games etc, and finally my Linux partition. I can mount C drive using

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 (mnt position

. However, I cannot mount hda2, which I am assuming is my D drive. It says
"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some logical partition inside?)"
Please help, thanks in advance.

[borromini]

Try hda5 (or higher). You can also open the partitioning tool, it will show you the partitions and their names. Then you can determine which one you want to mount.

[dhruv]

can someone explain wats the use of this command
/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda
and we could also check for the partition from /etc/fstab

[Krendoshazin]

can someone explain wats the use of this command
/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda
and we could also check for the partition from /etc/fstab

fstab is merely a listing of mount points and selected choices for the particular choice of mount (read-only, owner only etc) within linux, fdisk lists all the partitions on the drive whether linux or not, the use of /dev/hda on the end allows you the check the partition tables of either a primary or secondary drive (hda, hdb, sda, sdb)