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Date:      Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:14:29 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Drew Eckhardt <drew@plutotech.com>
To:        Mongoos411@aol.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cant mount hard drive
Message-ID:  <199904160014.SAA02893@dune.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <d7b49231.2447cc0f@aol.com>

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In article <d7b49231.2447cc0f@aol.com> you write:
>hey guys I cant mount a hard drive(windows 95, which has my x-windows 
>install). 
>I type:  mount_msdos /dev/wd0 /mnt
>it says "bad bpb" or "device not configured" and then usually displays the 
>synopsis if the command.  

/dev/wd0 is the entire hard drive : partition table followed by each of the 
    partitions in only.

You want your DOS partition.

As root

    fdisk wd0

will give you a list of partitions.  One line will give you something like

    The data for partition 2 is:
    sysid 12,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT, LBA)

Take the partition number, and mount it.  In this case,

    mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /mnt

would do the trick.  



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