I'm trying to use Knoppix (version 4.0.2 2005-09-12) to back up a friend's data.

This thread (http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...ght=ntfs+mount) was about a similar error.

When I click on "Hard Disk [hda1]", or use the commands "sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1" or "sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222" in the console, I get the following error:

Code:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so
"dmesg | tail" gives me:
Code:
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Device read failed.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Failed. Marking inode as bad.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Failed to load essential metadata.
hda: task_in_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: task_in_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=6291519, sector=6291519
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 6291519
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Device read failed.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Failed. Marking inode as bad.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Failed to load essential metadata.

Here is the output to everything Robert asked for in the thread I mentioned above.

Code:
+ cat /etc/knoppix-version
4.0.2 2005-09-12
+ cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   3     0   80043264 hda
   3     1   80027766 hda1
 240     0    1942016 cloop0
+ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdc /dev/hdd /dev/hde /dev/hdf /dev/hdg /dev/hdh
Disk /dev/hdc doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        9963    80027766    7  HPFS/NTFS
Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512)

Disk /dev/hdc: 728 MB, 728190976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 22 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 2048 = 32901120 bytes

+ cat /etc/fstab
/proc      /proc       proc   defaults            0 0
/sys       /sys        sysfs  noauto              0 0
/dev/pts   /dev/pts    devpts mode=0622           0 0
/dev/fd0   /mnt/auto/floppy auto   user,noauto,exec,umask=000    0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom  auto   user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1  auto   users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
+ ls --color=auto -la /mnt/
total 3
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 1024 Dec 13 17:58 .
drwxr-xr-x  9 root root 1024 Dec 13 12:57 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    0 Dec 13 17:58 auto
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   15 Dec 13 17:58 cdrom -> /mnt/auto/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   16 Dec 13 17:58 cdrom1 -> /mnt/auto/cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   16 Dec 13 17:58 floppy -> /mnt/auto/floppy
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 1024 Dec 13 17:58 hda1
+ mount
/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw)
/ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,size=402200k)
/UNIONFS on /UNIONFS type unionfs (rw,dirs=/ramdisk=rw:/KNOPPIX=ro,delete=whiteout)
/dev/hdc on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro)
/UNIONFS/dev/pts on /UNIONFS/dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devmode=0666)
automount(pid2276) on /mnt/auto type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2276,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
+ df -Hl
Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root              2.6M    14k   2.6M   1% /
/ramdisk               412M   5.6M   407M   2% /ramdisk
/UNIONFS               2.5G   2.0G   407M  84% /UNIONFS
/dev/hdc               729M   729M      0 100% /cdrom
/dev/cloop             2.0G   2.0G      0 100% /KNOPPIX
+ sudo mkdir /mnt/hda1
mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/hda1': File exists
+ sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

+ dmesg
hda: task_in_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: task_in_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=6291519, sector=6291519
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 6291519
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Device read failed.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Failed. Marking inode as bad.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Failed to load essential metadata.
hda: task_in_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: task_in_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=6291519, sector=6291519
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 6291519
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Device read failed.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Failed. Marking inode as bad.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Failed to load essential metadata.
hda: task_in_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: task_in_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=6291519, sector=6291519
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 6291519
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Device read failed.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Failed. Marking inode as bad.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Failed to load essential metadata.
hda: task_in_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: task_in_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=6291519, sector=6291519
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 6291519
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Device read failed.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Failed. Marking inode as bad.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Failed to load essential metadata.
hda: task_in_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: task_in_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=6291519, sector=6291519
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 6291519
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Device read failed.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Failed. Marking inode as bad.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Failed to load essential metadata.
hdb: No disk in drive
cdrom: open failed.
hdb: No disk in drive
cdrom: open failed.
hda: task_in_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: task_in_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=6291519, sector=6291519
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 6291519
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Device read failed.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_read_inode_mount(): Failed. Marking inode as bad.
NTFS-fs error (device hda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Failed to load essential metadata.
Obviously, this is a Windows partition. We can't boot to it: Disk read error. Replace system disk? Abort, Retry, Fail?

Or whatever the error message is that you get when you try to boot with a non-bootable floppy in. There's not floppy in the floppy drive.

Any ideas? I may not be able to reply right away, as I won't have constant access to the troubled computer, but I'll do my best.

Thanks,
Natalie