Some versions of MS-DOS create a first partition which does not begin on a cylinder boundary, but on sector 2 of the first cylinder. Parti- tions beginning in cylinder 1 cannot begin on a cylinder boundary, but this is unlikely to cause difficulty unless you have OS/2 on your machine. Which may seem to be your case (given your output), however I don't see anything looking like a remedy here :(

Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique) wrote:

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Le 27 Octobre 2003 20:54, Madison Kelly a ?crit :

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Hi all,

I am trying to do something very simple but it is being anything but... I have a laptop hard drive here that I am trying to image before I erase. Simple enough; I connect it as Master on the secondary channel, boot, '# mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/backup'... nothing. Try '#fdisk -l', nothing. I know that hardware-wise it's fine because I tried (uggh) booting my Win2k part and there it is seen fine. Also, on boot the BIOS sees it (not that it matters to Linux) and on powerdown it reports to flush HDC...

you did fdisk /dev/hdc?

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So, does anyone have any idea why a seemingly fine connected FAT32 hard drive (10GB) would not be seen by Linux's FDISK but it WOULD be found by Win2k? Isn't that pretty bass-ackwards? Any help is appreciated!

Madison

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