OK. I am a born-again Linux newbie. I swore it off a couple of years ago, but have been drawn back again by the unreliability of Windows.
But, OS war-instigating comments aside, here's my problem.
I installed Mandrake on a 10GB IBM Deskstar, no problem - had some problems with sound and mouse/kb, but got all that worked out, and am satisified so far.
So I decided it was time to put my other drive in (which I left out initially because it caused some problems for me in Win2000 after a while, and I didn't want the installer to format it). So I popped my 30GB IMB Deskstar as /dev/hdc, and lo and behold, I can't access anything on it.
I've tried a million different ways to mount it, but just can't get it to work. I've gotten error messages from "only root can mount /dev/hdc1" (which I then try and fails), to "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems"
Through Mandrake's graphical diskdrake (partitioning system), I can see that hdc is there, but it's color-coded as a Linux swap device, and the type is listed as "Linux swap (sharing disk with DRDOS)/S"
From the command line, I poked around in fdisk to see what it had to say about this drive/partition, and it listed it as a filesystem of type "SFS" (or Secure File System).
PLEASE, what the hell is going on? Does anyone have any idea? I imagine this disk is NTFS, as it was a Win2k disk, but it could be FAT32, right? Anybody have any ideas as to how this problem could be remedied?
Oh. and the caveat - I have 30GB of data on that drive that would be next to impossible to replace. So if it's not gone already, I would love to protect it.
Thank you all so much in advance for your help. I just really want to get this working so I can get to items 2-30 on my 'Linux to-do' list.
But, OS war-instigating comments aside, here's my problem.
I installed Mandrake on a 10GB IBM Deskstar, no problem - had some problems with sound and mouse/kb, but got all that worked out, and am satisified so far.
So I decided it was time to put my other drive in (which I left out initially because it caused some problems for me in Win2000 after a while, and I didn't want the installer to format it). So I popped my 30GB IMB Deskstar as /dev/hdc, and lo and behold, I can't access anything on it.
I've tried a million different ways to mount it, but just can't get it to work. I've gotten error messages from "only root can mount /dev/hdc1" (which I then try and fails), to "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems"
Through Mandrake's graphical diskdrake (partitioning system), I can see that hdc is there, but it's color-coded as a Linux swap device, and the type is listed as "Linux swap (sharing disk with DRDOS)/S"
From the command line, I poked around in fdisk to see what it had to say about this drive/partition, and it listed it as a filesystem of type "SFS" (or Secure File System).
PLEASE, what the hell is going on? Does anyone have any idea? I imagine this disk is NTFS, as it was a Win2k disk, but it could be FAT32, right? Anybody have any ideas as to how this problem could be remedied?
Oh. and the caveat - I have 30GB of data on that drive that would be next to impossible to replace. So if it's not gone already, I would love to protect it.
Thank you all so much in advance for your help. I just really want to get this working so I can get to items 2-30 on my 'Linux to-do' list.