Hi Philip,
I guess your HDD might have developed bad blocks... this happnd with me also previously with my 2G Hdd...which got resolved after i booted with a 98 bootable floppy and ran a fdisk deleted the vfat partition n formatted the same ... i got a few bad blocks but now my that HDD is running smooth ..
and the reason why i am writing this is eventually i also used to get this similar type of vfat mounting errors ... while trying to mount the partition on a linux box...
try to get hold of a win9x bootable and run scandisk on your hdd ...may be it might detect the bad blocks n mark them properly ... u never know microsoft ;)
Best Regards, -Mitul Limbani (mitul 2 mitul.com)
Philip S Tellis writes:
I have one ext2 partition, two fat32 partitions and one fat16 partition.
I can mount the ext2 and fat16 partitions, but am unable to mount the vfat (fat32) partitions.
When I try to mount them, the hard disk makes a humming sound, and I get these errors:
hda: timeout waiting for DMA hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } hda: DMA disabled ide0: reset: success hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=5221126, sector=1 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 1 FAT bread failed mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems
This happens everytime.
I tried disabling dma and then mounting, and I get these errors:
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=5221126, sector=1 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 1 FAT bread failed mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems
I am unable to boot into the fat32 partitions either.
I have not used Windows for several months now, so don't think that this is a windows related problem, and I was able to mount the partitions last night, but not since this afternoon.
Shutdown was uneventful the last time I used the fat32 partitions. I have all my documentation stored on those partitions and refer to them frequently.
Any ideas as to what has happened and how I may be able to fix it?
Philip