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Vectorman
08-13-2002, 08:53 PM
I have a preaty major problem on my hands right now.
I have just done a Complete Conversion to linux (YEEE HA)
but I have a HDD that I formatted in FAT32 with in Windows to back up all my pertinate Files ( lots of Pictures and Videos)
My problem is that now the FAT32 disk doesn't want to play nice. I get the First list of Dir's to display fine, but everything under it doesn't want to work. I have put the HDD into a Windows Machine and it Worked Flawlessly.
Whats up with it.
Please Help
Running Mandrake 8.2
1GHZ
280MB Ram
5HDD's 1 FAT32; 4 Ext3;
JohnT
08-13-2002, 09:27 PM
My problem is that now the FAT32 disk doesn't want to play nice. I get the First list of Dir's to display fine, but everything under it doesn't want to work. I have put the HDD into a Windows Machine and it Worked Flawlessly.
Are you running two disk? one as master and the other slave ? Your post is slightly confusing to me.:confused:
Vectorman
08-13-2002, 09:48 PM
actually I'm running 5 HDD's
Primary Master is ext3
primary slave is a cdrom
on the Secondary ATA100 PCI card
Primary master is FAT32 Drive (wont read)
primary Slave is ext3 (good)
seconday master ext3(good)
secondary slave ext3 (good)
It recognizes all the Drives in the Configuration utility on setup,
But after set up it says that the Partition table it corrupted on one of the drives.
i can access and read/write all drives except the FAT32 drive.
on the Fat32 one I can open the drive but the filenames come out as giberish, and when i click on a file that i know is a directory it says it can't read it.
Running out of options
JohnT
08-13-2002, 10:10 PM
Try putting the windows partition as the primary drive on the primary ATA. Correct your MBR so that it loads windows only (copy sys). Check to see that it boots and things are normal.
Then boot with your Linux disk you made during install and when in Linux re-install LILO or GRUB, whichever you use, to the MBR.
mdwatts
08-14-2002, 10:15 AM
How are you mounting that drive/partition?
mount -t vfat /dev/hde# /mnt/<mountpoint> ???
JohnT
08-14-2002, 01:22 PM
mdwatts has a good point, but let me take it further.
/dev/hdax /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
Where /hdax is the partition win is on. The iocharset expresses itself as the language it's in. In this case english.
Vectorman
08-14-2002, 04:59 PM
First let me say that the FAT32 Drive has no OPSYS on it, it only contains the DATA that I wanted to save.
As for the mount point I installed the OPSYS (linux) with the Drive in the machine and it worked. then I ended up having to REFORMAT and REINSTALL the OPSYS (linux) to accomodate something or other. (don't remember why). Upon completion of the INSTALL it would not read the Drive Completely.. and when I go into HardDrake it says there are one or more Partitions that are BAD.
I can read and Write to EVERY Drive on the system except the FAT32 one... Kinda narrows it down.
As for Mounting it is automaticly mounted at BOOT to /mnt/windows
I've tried unmoounting the Drive and Restarting the Computer then Remonting it, but that doesn't work either.
I have attached this drive to a windows computer and am in the process of coping all data to that computer then to another disk that is good. I will then format the Drive in ext3 and copy the data back to it.
hope it works.