[SOLVED] Unable to mount drive

[Nomad33404]

Hey guys! Quick rundown, our laptop has us between a rock and a hard place.. one being Safeboot and the other being stuck in Safe Mode with some unholy WinXP Admin password prompt not letting us by .. anyhow, to the Knoppix lol:

Using Knoppix 6.2

Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5168 cylinders 
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes 
Disk identifier: 0x39133912 

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System 
/dev/sda1   *           1        5167    39062488+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# mount

rootfs on / type rootfs (rw,relatime) 
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) 
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime) 
/dev/sr0 on /mnt-system type iso9660 (ro,relatime) 
tmpfs on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1048576k) 
/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro,relatime) 
unionfs on /UNIONFS type aufs (rw,relatime,si=1be31434,noplink) 
unionfs on /home type aufs (rw,relatime,si=1be31434,noplink) 
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime) 
tmpfs on /UNIONFS/var/run type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k) 
tmpfs on /UNIONFS/var/lock type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k) 
tmpfs on /UNIONFS/var/log type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=102400k) 
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1048576k) 
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=20480k) 
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1048576k) 
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=1777)

Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# cat /etc/fstab

# DEFAULT BASE FSTAB, UNCONFIGURED 
proc       /proc         proc       noauto             0 0 
sysfs      /sys          sysfs      noauto             0 0 
# Added by KNOPPIX 
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 
# Added by KNOPPIX 
/dev/sr0 /media/sr0 auto ro,noauto,users,exec 0 0

Any input would be greatly appreciated. I would be more than happy just to reinstall a new OS, but I would hate to tell my girlfriend I lost all of her pictures lol

Thanks!

[highfructose327]

assuming Knoppix created a directory /media/sda1. You will need to be root in a terminal try

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/sda1

If the directory /media/sda1 was not created then you can do in terminal

mkdir /media/sda1

and then retry mounting sda1. Just a thought on the safemode password I had this problem with Windows at some point where it prompted me for a password I tried everything then finally I just hit enter when prompted and it turned out the password was empty, just a thought. Good luck

[devils casper]

If you want write access in NTFS Partition(s) then use ntfs-3g instead of ntfs.

mkdir /media/sda1
mount -t ntfs-3g  /dev/sda1 /media/sda1  -o defaults,umask=0

umask=0 will allow Regular Users to read/write NTFS partition(s).

[Nomad33404]

Hey guys, thanks for the super fast responses! I did both suggestions, and used the Root Terminal, this is the end product:

oot@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# mkdir /media/sda1
mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/sda1': File exists
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 -o defaults,umask=0
Usage: mount -V                 : print version
       mount -h                 : print this help
       mount                    : list mounted filesystems
       mount -l                 : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
       mount -a [-t|-O] ...     : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
       mount device             : mount device at the known place
       mount directory          : mount known device here
       mount -t type dev dir    : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
       mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
       mount --move olddir newdir
One can change the type of mount containing the directory dir:
       mount --make-shared dir
       mount --make-slave dir
       mount --make-private dir
       mount --make-unbindable dir
One can change the type of all the mounts in a mount subtree
containing the directory dir:
       mount --make-rshared dir
       mount --make-rslave dir
       mount --make-rprivate dir
       mount --make-runbindable dir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using  -L label  or by uuid, using  -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say  man 8 mount .
root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix#

I can see the media/sda1 and media/sr01 folders in the PCMan File Manager, but they're both currently empty
My main goal I guess is just to get where I can edit the boot.ini and remove the safe mode manually, if that helps at all.. really appreciate this btw!

[Nomad33404]

Ended up resolving this issue. My drives weren't being detected due to the encryption put on them from McAfee Endpoint Encryption (aka SafeBoot). The encryption was also what was preventing me from resetting the WinXP passwords.

For anyone who comes across this issue in the future, here is what I did (I had the SafeBoot user password, but no disks to uninstall):

Download WinTech (google for the ISO and use a program such as imageburn to make a bootable copy)

You will need to Authorize and Authenticate it, so you will need the SafeBoot user login PLUS the 4 digit daily code from McAfee (McAfee wouldn't give one up, so I googled for an old code and changed my computers date in WinTech to the date of the old code, it actually worked lol)

Set the disk algorithm and go to Remove Safeboot.. about an hour later, I rebooted and could see my drives sitting pretty in Knoppix.

I changed the boot.ini, deleted the /safeboot minimal and Viola! Everything was back to normal lol. Anyhow, it was an odd situation I found myself in, but at least this info is here for the future lol.

[devils casper]

root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 -o defaults,umask=0

You were executing wrong command. As I suggested earlier, correct command is

mount -t ntfs-3g  /dev/sda1 /media/sda1  -o defaults,umask=0