Greetings All, I run SUSE 9.0 as my primary OS, and had Win2k on a spare box to run iTunes off of. Unfortunately, the hard drive in the Win2k box "went south" (exactly how or why is unknown), and I was unable to boot without hitting a blue screen before I reached my desktop. I slaved the drive into my Linux box to mount and rescue the 15 GB of data I had on the non-functioning drive. Unfortunately, I am no longer able to mount the drive, and I have not yet rescued all of the data on it. The specific error I am getting is: **************** # mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /home/neil/Desktop/win2k mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, or too many mounted file systems **************** I was previously successful mounting the drive using the above command. Any suggestions as to how I can try to recover the data before blowing / thowing this drive away? - Neil Wehneman

make a linux bootdisk, for backup and then boot your windows CD , then try to find your window partition there fix it, and you still can boot your linux with that bootdisk I hope it can help Just ask what u need to ask

if you could access it and all of a sudden you can't any longer your drive may have died. The only other time i've had that error was when the drive was allready mounted. does a DOS fdisk show any partitions?