I have linux on my laptop dual booting with Win95b on a Fat32 partition.  I can
read and write to the FAT32 partition from LINUX, so I don't think that is the
problem, linux can see FAT32.

> Did your friend convert the drive to fat32?  That will
> render it unseeable.
> 
> Joseph T. Tannenbaum, MCSE, MCP+I
> tannenba@access1.com
> http://members.access1.net/tannenba/

> > I talked my friend, who is a big Windows fan, to trying linux.
> >
> > He has 2 drives, and he has linux on hdc1 and win98 on hda1.
> >
> > When we set the box up, I mounted hda1 so he could get to his
> > windows files from linux.
> >
> > Now when ever he tries to mount hda1 with type vfat he gets
> > a message:
> >
> > $ mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrive
> >
> > mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel
> >
> > He said is was working and then all of a sudden this started
> > to happen. No rebuild has been done.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what is causing this and how to fix it?

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