On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 01:04 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > The partition has Windows XP on it, and it boots fine and as far as I > can tell operates without any problems. I don't think that drive has any > intrinsic errors on it. > I've run chkdisk and scandisk and defragmented the drive, and I don't > know what else I can do in Windows to make sure the drive is okay. All > indications are that it's alright. > > I there anything else I can do Linux-side to mount this partition? ---- let's assume that it isn't mounted...(if mounted, 'umount /dev/hda1') fdisk -l /dev/hda does fdisk agree that it's a Fat volume? What type? 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. Craig