Can't mount FAT32 partition

[admin at homemachine.net (Tom)]

if it's XP it's a NTFS

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 19:21 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> 
>>>Rather than editing /etc/fstab and adding a lot of mount flags to the
>>>mix, start with the basics. Can you do the following as root:
>>>mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>[root@localhost ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
>>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
>>       or too many mounted file systems
>>
>>
>>>If yes, then it is a matter of working out the proper flags. If not,
>>>then the file system could be corrupt. When you try the mount command
>>>above, do you see any errors in /var/log/messages or dmesg output?
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>This is in /var/log/messages:
>>Aug 30 19:16:50 localhost kernel: FAT: invalid first entry of FAT 
>>(0xffffff8 != 0x1)
>>Aug 30 19:16:50 localhost kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem 
>>on dev hda1.
>>
>>So it thinks it's not a valid FAT system. It seems to work okay in 
>>Windows... is there a possibility that there are different kinds of FAT32?
>>
>>Dave
>>
> 
> 
> Is this a Windows partition?  If so, I would boot in Windows XP an make
> sure you can read the partition in Windows and run chkdsk on it via
> Windows XP to start with.
> 
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