Thanks all. It's fixed. When I ran "dosfsck /dev/hda5" I got the error:
Logical sector size is zero
So I re-created the file system with "mkfs -t vfat -F 32 /dev/hda5"
(after backing up all my files!) and now it mounts properly. Not sure I
understand it because I hadn't run the mkfs command on hda1 either. I
formatted both from Win98.
Thanks again,
Alex
>Maybe it isn't really a FAT32 filesystem?
>
>Could you try something like: strings /dev/hda5 | less
>
>With a FAT32 filesystem, I get:
>
>mkdosfs
>BRJF_KEY FAT32
>This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and
>press any key to try again ...
>RRaA
>rrAa{
>mkdosfs
>BRJF_KEY FAT32
>This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and
>press any key to try again ...
><list of short filenames on system...>
>
>Obviously I formatted the above with mkdosfs, but you can see the label
>(RJF_KEY) and type as well.
>
>By comparison, on NTFS, I get:
>
>0000374 t+a`j
>0000454 Invalid partition table
>0000504 Error loading operating system
>0000543 Missing operating system
>0077003 NTFS
>...
>
>HTH
>
>-Richard
>
>
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