Can't mount Windows C:\ Drive

[GotJazz]

I used to be able to mount my C:\ drive (vfat). I spent a good amount of time trying to modify my lilo bootup when I had to reconfigure my hard drives / CD-ROM drives.

My system (RH 8.0) is running pretty well after quite a few "linux rescue" sessions. However, my C:\ doesn't mount anymore. I get errors during boot-up stating that the "/c-drive" is busy, or that /boot is already allocated to /dev/hda1 (Which is where my C:\ drive is).

Here's my mtab:

/dev/hda7 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /d-drive vfat rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0

When I modify the /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 line, and change it to: /dev/hda1 /c-drive vfat rw 0 0, it is changed back after the next reboot.

Here's my fstab:

/dev/hda7 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /d-drive vfat rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0

Again, changing /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 into /dev/hda1 /c-drive vfat rw 0 0 doesn't work, and the system changes it back after the next reboot.

Please help!

GotJazz

[mdwatts]

It would seem that /dev/hda1 is in fact your /boot partition.

Could your C drive be /dev/hda2 instead?

As root

su -
<root password>

fdisk -l /dev/hda

and have a look at hda1 and hda2.

[GotJazz]

Somehow I got C:\ to work (I don't know how), but now I have a related but different problem.

Does RH8.0 read NTFS partitions?

I tried the "mount ..." shell command suggested in the NTFS NHF, and it looked like I was rejected. I would be a bit surprised if RH8.0 doesn't read NTFS, but then WinXP doesn't read EXT2/3 partitions, either! ;-)

GotJazz

[jetblackz]

su
lsmod | grep ntfs

If you see it, it's on.

RH8 seems to have a roll-back program run at boot time so whatever changes you made to /etc/fstab, for example, would go back to the original stage.

7.3 was the best of all RH. 8.0 is going downhills. Bloatware + less control (what you're experiencing).

You could try out other 126 distros. www.linux.org

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by GotJazz
Somehow I got C:\ to work (I don't know how), but now I have a related but different problem.

Does RH8.0 read NTFS partitions?

I tried the "mount ..." shell command suggested in the NTFS NHF, and it looked like I was rejected. I would be a bit surprised if RH8.0 doesn't read NTFS, but then WinXP doesn't read EXT2/3 partitions, either! ;-)

GotJazz

AFAIK, Redhat is the only distro that does not include ntfs support by default.

Have a look at the link in my signature.