Partition Problems

[Tom Ford]

Im trying to mount my windows drive onto linux so i can access a file
which i need to burn to a cd (but cannot through broken windows)

however....


I feel my windows partition may be screwed....


root@thomas-desktop:~# mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/windowsc
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so


root@thomas-desktop:~# dmesg | tail
[17181242.524000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[17181242.524000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
[17181372.760000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[17181372.760000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
[17181492.896000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[17181492.896000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
[17181523.640000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[17181523.640000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda3.
[17181866.348000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[17181866.348000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
root@thomas-desktop:~#


anyway i can fix this?

 

[AJR]

Linux provides access to HDs regardless if Windows is installed however your
listing a group of possible reasons for failing access "...wrong fs type,
bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or other
error...." with the primary cause that there is no valid file system (FAT16,
FAT 32, NTFS or Linux FS).

Using Recovery Console to "rebuild" the FS and MBR may be an option. You
should be able to boot a borrowed XP CD and use the Console (first repair
option) - running the second repair option actually runs an upgrade
installation and would require the product key

 

[Guest]

Im trying to mount my windows drive onto linux so i can access a file
which i need to burn to a cd (but cannot through broken windows)

however....

I feel my windows partition may be screwed....

root@thomas-desktop:~# mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/windowsc
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

root@thomas-desktop:~# dmesg | tail
[17181242.524000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[17181242.524000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
[17181372.760000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[17181372.760000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
[17181492.896000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[17181492.896000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
[17181523.640000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[17181523.640000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda3.
[17181866.348000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[17181866.348000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
root@thomas-desktop:~#

anyway i can fix this?

mount it as cifs, not msdos

Flamer.

 

[Tom Ford]

I mounted it as ntfs and got this error:

Volume is scheduled for check. Please boot into Windows TWICE, or use
the 'force' mount option.

I did a force mount but that returns the error:

[root@localhost ~]# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windowsc -o force
WARNING: Forced mount, unclean volume information is ignored.
fusermount: mount failed: Device or resource busy
FUSE mount point creation failed
Unmounting /dev/sda1

Any ideas on where i can go from here as i cant boot into Windows to
checkdisk.