mounting windows hard drive

[prejudged_fire]

hello! Im trying to mount a windows hard drive on Linux to copy some files over but I'm having a bit of trouble. My Linux hard drive is my primary master (hda right?) while my Windows hard drive is my secondary master (hdc right?). Well I edited /etc/fstab and added this line:

/dev/hdc            /mnt/hdc                vfat          defaults     0  0

As I understand it, that should tell Linux to mount /dev/hdc (secondary master, ie Windows) on /mnt/hdc letting it know that its a vfat filesystem type. But when I run 'mount /dev/hdc' as root in a terminal, it says:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, missing codepage or other error

'dmesg | tail' gives me:

FAT: Bogus number of FAT structure
VFS: Cant find valid FAT filesystem on device hdc

Can anyone tell me what the problem is?

[Juan Pablo]

You must name the partition, for example hdc1, hdc2, etc not just hdc.
If you have problems, the output of "fdisk -l" as root "su -" may be useful

[prejudged_fire]

it says "special device hdb1 does not exist"

[Juan Pablo]

it was hdc1, sorry

[prejudged_fire]

ok now I can mount it but the files I'm seeing aren't files that are on my hard drive. Could I be looking at the wrong partition? I'm trying to look in C:\ and these look like files that would be in D:\

[Juan Pablo]

Try hdc1 and hdc2

[prejudged_fire]

hdc1 is what i just tried and hdc2 says wrong fs type

[Juan Pablo]

post the output of "fdisk -l" as root "su -"

[prejudged_fire]

ok here's what I get:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5169 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          14      105808+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2              15        5169    38971800   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/hdc: 30.0 GB, 30060527616 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3883 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1               1         677     5118088+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc2   *         678        3882    24229800    7  HPFS/NTFS

hda is the one with Linux on it. hdc is the one I'm trying to mount.

[devils casper]

hdc1 is what i just tried and hdc2 says wrong fs type

hdc2 is NTFS and RH/Fedora doesn't support NTFS out of box. download NTFS patch from www.linux-ntfs.org. patch name *should* match with kernel version.

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