[H-GEN] newbie-mounting a second hard drive.

[Robert Parker]

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Just my 2 cents, I believe that you have the option of a fat32 or ntfs file 
system in Wonders XP. If it is ntfs you have even more difficulty than with
vfat.
Bob Parker

On Friday 09 August 2002 11:01 pm, you wrote:
> > Yo. I want to be able to read a file from a (corrupted?) hard drive.
> >
> > The file was in win xp format, but I stuffed up the disk when I had it
> > connected to a Linux machine.
> > Now Windows says that drive need a formatting, and I'd like to ask Linux
> > what it can see on that drive.
> > If and then, maybe copy the critical file somehow onto a windows
> > partition
> >
> > or even a floppy.
> >
> > As a newbie, I can barely complete the exercise of mounting a floppy, by
> > typing in the following..
> >     mount   -t   vfat    /dev/fd0   /mnt/floppy
> >
> > So can some kind soul please tell me the corresponding mantra for
> > mounting
> >
> > a second hard drive?
> > I have tried variations  like   /mnt/hda1  and /dev/hda without any
> > success, or much in the way of comprehension either.
> >
> > Yassou!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Alex Mitrow, (07) 3391 4221
> > Woolloongabba
> >
> >
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