problems mounting fat32 partition

[Vinicius]

Tom escreveu:
> Thanks, but that still doesn't explain why I can't find /dev/hda2 in the 
> first place.
> 
> I have since found that booting into rescue mode from the install CD 
> does find /dev/hda2 and mounts it accordingly. But it still doesn't work 
> on a normal boot up.
> 
> 
> Vinicius wrote:
> 
>> Tom escreveu:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have just installed Fedora Core 3, dual boot with Win XP. I have a 
>>> separate partition for my files and so on, and I want to access it 
>>> from linux. This is the set up of my system:
>>> hda:
>>> - hda1 (Windows XP - NTFS ~15GB)
>>> - hda2 (Files - FAT32 ~ 25GB)
>>> hdd:
>>> - hdd1 (/boot - ext3 ~ 100MB)
>>> - hdd2 - LVM Physical Volume (containing swap and /  ~20GB)
>>>
>>> This is recognised by the Hardware Browser, but when I try to mount 
>>> hda2, it does not seem to exist in /dev, so unsurprisingly, I get the 
>>> error: "mount: special device /dev/hda2 does not exist"
>>>
>>> any ideas?
>>> Tom.
>>>
>>
>> http://fedoranews.org/contributors/konrad_kosmowski/fat/
>>
> 

After the boot in normal mode, at the prompt on a terminal, what the 
command "ls /dev/hda*" shows?