Mount fat32 partition

[Aly Dharshi]

Hi Folks,

	I tried to do this very thing over the weekend for a buddy, and I got the same 
errors:

>>mount -t vfat /dev/hda8 /mnt/win
>>
>>Unfortunately, I got this message :
>>
>>mount : wrong fs type, bad option bad superblock on /dev/hda8, or too
>>may 
>>mounted file systems.
>>

	Haven't tried an fdisk -l but the hardware browser program (/usr/bin/hwbrowser) 
reports that partition as an unknown filesystem. Has anybody been able to use 
Windows XP SP2 to make a FAT/FAT32 partition and then get it mounted under 
Fedora Core 2 ? Any pointers would be good. Thanks.

	PS: When my buddy booted back into Windows the FAT partition said do you want 
to format and put an FS on it, basically he shit a brick, but used some recovery 
tools to get to the files that he has on that partition (phew). So don't know 
what is going on there unless XP SP2 is quite crap like the rest of the OS that 
it doesn't know what is going on.

	Cheers,

	Aly.


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