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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Problem with accessing my 2nd hard drive Post 302423935 by Donald Spauldin on Sunday 23rd of May 2010 02:20:21 PM
Old 05-23-2010
problems with hard drive

Hi rohit shetty
it is a fat 32 with 73 gb I have freespire Os with Ubuntu i'm not sure the brand of hd it is or what kind I have.
my computer lists it as hdb2 fat -32 mounted on /dev/winxp thats about it
i'll have to remove the drive and read and copy the info if more is needed
I just know it worked befor and now it doesn't.How would i mount it? says it is mounted on /dev/winxp now.
please advise
don

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Thanks for the reply
Don

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I am also having trouble going to root.
what is the password they want ?
i only put in one and that doesn't work
 

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