problem mounting vfat

[Sandeep_gcet_cs]

When i try to mount vfat then i get an error message::

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc5,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

what do i do now????
Unable to mount drives ....plzz help...

[Vergil83]

That usually means it isn't fat or there has been some error that is making the drive unreadable

[Sandeep_gcet_cs]

then what to do...i am not getting any idea...plzzz tell me what to do???

[Vergil83]

I don't know for sure if knoppix has it installed but you could try fsck.vfat

[devils casper]

post the output of 'fdisk -l' command here.

[Sandeep_gcet_cs]

Disk /dev/hdc: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 1275 10241406 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdc2 1276 9207 63713790 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc3 9208 9733 4225095 83 Linux
/dev/hdc5 1276 2550 10241406 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc6 2551 5100 20482843+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc7 5101 7650 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc8 7651 9180 12289693+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc9 9181 9207 216846 82 Linux swap / Solaris


Now what to do .....
Simply can't mount hard disk ....
Even pen drives............................

[Sandeep_gcet_cs]

Didn't work/...................
I tried it...but no success....
Do u have any idea that what is the exact problem ....
Why is it happening?????

[devils casper]

create a mount_point (folder) for each partition and mount partitions manually.
execute this

su -
mkdir /mnt/hdc5
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc5  /mnt/hdc5 -o defaults,umask=0
ls /mnt/hda5

replace vfat with ntfs for NTFS partitions.

[Sandeep_gcet_cs]

Thanks it worked ...................
But let me check do...
I need to mount it every time when i reboot or it will mount automatically............
Do u have any idea...?????

[devils casper]

add code in /etc/fstab file for automatic mounting at boot up.

/dev/hdc5  /mnt/hdc5  vfat  defaults,umask=0 0 0

its for hdc5 partition. make necessary changes for others.