and when i typed dmesg | tail and i got this: Additional sense: Write error end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 39776936 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 4972117 scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 02 5e f2 a8 00 00 08 00 Info fld=0x0, Current sda: sense key Medium Error Additional sense: Write error end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 39776936 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 4972117 FAT: invalid media value (0xb9) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. anyone got any idea? T. Hiep On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Hiep Nguyen wrote: > hi all, > > how do i mount usb laptop hard drive to a centos 4 box? this hard drive has > 2 partitions: NT (winxp os) and fat32 for data. i'm unable to boot from it > and i think NT partition is corrupted. i did try to connect to windows box, > but i still can't get to fat32. any idea how to do this on centos box? i > gave up on windows box. > > thanks, > T. Hiep > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >