I'm using Knoppix to try to get my neighbour's data from failed hard drive on his Sony laptop (Windows XP Home).

I can browse the hard drive with his Sony applications. I can browse the memory stick that I want to copy his data to.

We can't see his data. There are two other drives that I can't enter, because of the error: "mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified.

Can anyone tell me how to specify the filesystem type.

I have very basic (and old) Unix knowledge.

If I type cat /etc/fstab

I get:

# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs noauto, users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 /media/hda2 auto noauto, users,exec 0 0

I typed:

sudo mount -t ntfs -o uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix /dev/hda2 /media/hda2

I got the message:

NTFS signature is missing.