External harddisk not wrking properly

[srinidhi]

I have dual-boot with Fedora Core 5 and Windows XP.


I have a Toshiba external harddisk with the capacity 20.0 GB. I have made three patitions, one primary and two logical.

The problem is the first partition works very well, but the other two partitions have problem.

Whenever I try to access the partitions(which have problem),or whenever I try to copy a file to it, the Windows XP displays a message "Windows delayed write failed". After that either of the partitions doesn't work.

I tried this in the Linux too, but it showed - "Can't mount /dev/sda".

Is this a problem with the harddisk? can it be recovered?

Please help me regarding this as I want to install SUSE into it.

Another thing I noticed is it doesn't detect in any other computer except mine.


Regards.

[jan1024188]

Open your terminal and type:

su root

mkdir /dir where you want to mount hdd

mount -t filesystem /dev/sda1 /dir where you want to mount hdd

Than you will have to edit /etc/fstab file