Disk mount errors and access to WFS on C drive

[Harry Kuhman]

Please see answer #7.

Can you make your support answers Stickies in the froum? I thank you for the quik correction.

There is a stickie on this very subject in the General Foum.

I certainly am not going to make all of my support responses stickie, no one wants that clutter. In general I've been discouraging stickies and moving more and more data to the wiki where it is well indexed and easy to find. Sometimes rather than provide support directly in the forums I'll update a wiki article if it needs it and then reference that in the forums so the poster gets their response but it is still easy for others to find.

Still, a lot of stuff gets asked and answered quickly in the forums, by many different people, and so it is important to have meaningful subject lines in the forums. Thanks for editing yours. (Yes, there are fools who even when requested will not edit theirs).

Your problem (now that I read it) looks to be more than a blown registery. A corrupt registery should not keep you from seeing the other files on the drive.

You mention scsi, but you also mention a promise RAID controler. Do you have multiple drives on a Promise controler in a RAID array, which may be looking like a scsi system to Linux? Unfortunately, if you have a raid array set up you may not be able to access it under Linux. The problem is that such "Raid" systems are often not true hardware raid devices that look like one large disk to the os, but rather software hacks that do the raid functions in a special raid driver that you installed into windows. If that's the case Linux can't see the drives as a raid array unless you have a matching driver for Linux which uses the same drive geometry as the Windows driver, and as far as I know such a driver isn't offered.

Your best bet might be to reinstall Windows to a different hard drive, load the raid driver on that, then attach this set of raid drives and try to access the raid drive as a second partition under windows.