Hello, I am trying to recover my Windows 200 Pro files, and i have managed to do it soem of it through Red Hat 8.0 (I felt very smart, hehe). However, considering that i am still a newbie at Linux, i cannot manage to mount my other harddrive, drive D:. Whenever i try to mount it, i get an error message. I type this command, and this is excactly how it appears: # mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/windows -t vfat32 -r mount: fs type vfat32 not supported by kernel Any ideas? Stupid mistakes im making? i would greatly appreciate an email to Redlazer2000@yahoo.com with some feedback, or more questions. Thanks in advance, -Red PS. i weitehr get that error message, or, i get: mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/win -t vfat -r mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda4, or too many mounted file systems (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some logical partition inside?)

you might have the partition wrong. try it with hda3, maye even hdb. you could try geting rid of the v in fat. mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/windows -t fat32 -r

Are you sure of the partition type. To list the partitions type the command: $ fdisk -l /dev/hda To mount a /dev/hda4 fat32 partition type $ mount -t vfat /mnt/hda4 /mnt/windows To mount a /dev/hda4 ntfs partition type $ mount -t ntfs /mnt/hda4 /mnt/windows Of course if you want to mount nfts (read-only) partitions you have to add support for it. http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html

I don't know why you guys put all those options. just try: cd /mnt mkdir drive_d mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/drive_d ls /mnt/drive_d if it's not OK try other hda2, hda3, hda5... sometime when you make a lot of re-partitionning you get hda5 right after hda1 and stuff like that.. even a second disk will not start as hdb1 but hdb5 or something. I never added options like -t -vfat -whatever and never had trouble mounting stuff...