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# 1  
Old 03-15-2010
Problem mounting harddisk
Hi all

I am having a great deal of trouble mounting a harddisk on my Ubuntu 9.10 desktop.

Output from "fdisk -l":

Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
86 heads, 15 sectors/track, 969196 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1290 * 512 = 660480 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000001

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1      208090   134217727+   4  FAT16 <32M

Disk /dev/sda1: 137.4 GB, 137438952960 bytes
86 heads, 15 sectors/track, 208089 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1290 * 512 = 660480 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000001

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1p1   *           1      208090   134217727+   4  FAT16 <32M



Output from "hdparm -I /dev/sda"

Code:
ATA device, with non-removable media
    Model Number:       WDC WD6400AACS-00G8B1                   
    Serial Number:      WD-WCAUF3116614
    Firmware Revision:  05.04C05
    Transport:          Serial, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5


Running kernel 2.6.31-20-generic #57-Ubuntu

I really need this mount as i contains all my images of my children...

Please help

Thx!
Last edited by pludi; 03-15-2010 at 06:50 PM.. Reason: code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 03-24-2010
What happens when you try to mount the drive?
# 3  
Old 03-25-2010
Try,

Code:
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/s*** /mnt/media

where mount media is a empty directory.
# 4  
Old 03-27-2010
Hi all

Thanks for your replies!

First I tried
Code:
fdisk /dev/sda -l

Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
86 heads, 15 sectors/track, 969196 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1290 * 512 = 660480 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000001

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1      208090   134217727+   4  FAT16 <32M

Then
Code:
fsck /dev/sda

fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

Latest
Code:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/winxp/

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

Any suggestions on these outputs?
# 5  
Old 03-27-2010
Code:
sudo mkdir -p /media/c

Code:
sudo mount -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,umask=000 /dev/sda1 /media/c

# 6  
Old 03-27-2010
Thanks for your efforts!Smilie

Code:
/home/jnp# mount -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,umask=000 /dev/sda1 /media/c
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

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