Howdy,


Why does fdisk say the sector size for your hda1 partition is "2048". Thats 4X !!!. Something is wrong there.

I'd back your /etc/fstab and then rewrite the entry for hda1, stripping it down to a bare minimum. And then have a look at what the fdisk/cfdisk output is. You may find cfdisk a bit clearer to work with too.

Something simple like,,

Code:
/dev/hda1  /mnt/hda1  ntfs  noauto,ro  0  0
to start with.

Those extra bits, such as ...

Code:
+ ls --color=auto -la /mnt/
seem to be a bit weird to me. I've never seen them before, and they aren't in "man mount" as legal options.

Have you tried to write to your ntfs partition on a previous occasion. Be warned, you can screw up a ntfs that way. Write support is dodgy due to the prorietry lock down on ntfs internals by MS.

What does ...

cfdisk /dev/hda

and ...

cfdisk -Pt /dev/hda

have to say on that.

Please give more details about what you have actually done, in the lead up to this. Have you mounted it successfully before, or is this the very first attempt etc.


Just found the other thread you mentioned ... where you say at the very start ...

>>
I currently running Knoppix from a CD to recover some files from my hd. I usaly uses Windows, but it wont start up, and I need to backup some of my files.
>>

Which suggests that something happened before hand !

Can you describe what you were doing around that time, before you tried the Knoppix boot ?


It is possible to pass options to "fdisk" to force a "Head/Sector/Cylinder" geometry. And from there rewrite the table. But as i haven't actual had call to do that, it would be better to get an opinion on that from someone who has. It is described in the "man fdisk" man page though.

In the mean time though, just to backup your existing mbr/table in case any further damage is done i would suggest the following.

Take a good floppy ...

Code:
]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 count=1440
That will zero out your floppy, then do ...

Code:
]# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
That will put your existing mbr/table onto the floppy, as it currently is. And do take care to get the switches/parameters the right way round !


jm