error mounting Windows drive

**cunokyle** · April 19th, 2003, 07:00 PM

Mandrake 9.1
I am trying to mount my Windows drive. I open a console as root and type the following:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

and this is the error I get:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems

When I boot the computer I can see it give the same error when trying to mount file systems. My Windows partitioon works fine though. I can boot into it and not have any problems, until I try to mount it in Linux.

**nukes** · April 19th, 2003, 07:32 PM

What filesystem is on the drive?
Have you an entry in fstab? Does that work?
Try specifying the fs type with -t so if it was FAT32 you would do:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
or for ntfs
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
There are also some other parameters for mount which can be found in the man page.

**cunokyle** · April 19th, 2003, 07:37 PM

It is WinME on the Windows drive. I will have to check fstab to see if it is there.

**cunokyle** · April 22nd, 2003, 12:26 AM

here is what fstab shows:
/dev/hdb1 / reiserfs notail 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /home reiserfs notail 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0

I would like to resolve this problem, because I can not access the Windows drive through Linux which is really a pain in the butt most of the time and causes me to have to reboot alot to grab a file or what have you.

**jkrohn** · April 22nd, 2003, 12:39 AM

Try this to mount your drive

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

Since your fstab looks ok, you could also try
mount /mnt/windows (leave out /dev/hda)

Jkrohn

**cunokyle** · April 22nd, 2003, 04:43 AM

I tried both of those entries and received the same error...
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems

The same error I was getting before.

**BFlurie** · April 22nd, 2003, 07:34 AM

I assume you have vfat fs enabled in the kernel? Either in the kernel or as a module works for me.

My fstab is:

/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 vfat defaults,noatime,noauto,user 0 0

Then mount with: mount /mnt/hda2
But I have seen that error once when I had a whole bunch of mounted partitions.

**cunokyle** · April 23rd, 2003, 06:56 PM

any more ideas?

**cunokyle** · April 24th, 2003, 01:41 PM

I was using the boot disk to change some bootloader options and I noticed this error message...

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems(could this be the IDE device where you in fact are using ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

What does that mean?