[ale] Did I lose my windows partition ?

[Jim Kinney]

Retry that mount using sda1. You were trying to mount the entire disk, sda,
instead of the ntfs partition, sda1.

On Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 3:57 PM Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

> Friends:
> Thank you for your time and attention in advance.
>
> I finally found my  Samsung N120  netbook (laptop) that runs Windows XP.
> I want to use this so I will be able to work on my Samsung tablet aka dont
> want to lose the XP on this. (dont know how to do connect to Android tablet
> from Linux)
>
> I wanted to partition the disk to 32GB for Win XP and the remaining 92 GB
> for Linux.  I tried to partition and I'm not sure what is happening here.
>
> fdisk says it has a partition of type NTFS.
> https://imgur.com/RboROyO
>
> parted says it has ext4
> https://imgur.com/0ymhp6o
>
> mount command does not allow me to mount it as NTFS
> https://imgur.com/wxSp5dJ
>
> Does this mean I lost the partition and the XP installation is gone or I
> still have hope ?
>
> Warm Regards
> -Narahari
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