My machine has /dev/hda1 to /dev/hda5 for windows 2000 runing as dual boot. I
am running Redhat 9.0 on the remaing partition.
Recemtly , in linux box, I tried to use "dump2fs" shell comand as root for all
windows partition, and my system hanged. I rebooted but not able load Window
anymore..boot loader failed..
I could boot with linux, and ran "sfdisk -L" . It should me : /dev/hda1,
/dev/hda2/ and /dev/hda5 as system ID of file system as "No File System"
How ever other /dev/hda3 shown as "Windows fat32"
whent I tried "mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/Windows" ..It showed
mount: /dev/hda2 is not a valid block device
also I tried "mount -o /dev/hda1 remount,rw 0 0"
I want to some how recover data from these drives .. any pointer?
help!!!
-Raja Mallik
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-----Original Message-----
From: ilugc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ilugc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Sivasankar Chander
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:19 PM
To: ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Sivasankar Chander
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] problem in mounting windows partion
[root@localhost naveen]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda21) The entry for /dev/hda2 is missing in /dev. You can
/mnt/c
mount: /dev/hda2 is not a valid block device