Can't mount FAT32 partition

[dave at tokyocomedy.com (Dave Gutteridge)]

>does fdisk agree that it's a Fat volume? What type?
>  
>
umount: /dev/hda1: not mounted
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        3649    29310561    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

>and I sort of agree with someone else's previous suggestion to see if
>you can mount it from command line first before trying to mount via
>fstab.
>
I tried exactly as they said, and got the same error anyway:
[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

Dave