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 Mounting HDD readonly in Ubuntu 10.04
HDD failed, Linux, Mounting HDD, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 10.04
I'm trying to image the internal sata HDD of my pc with Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD "fdisk -l" result: 
Device    Boot      Start    End     Blocks  Id  System
/dev/sda1               1   1274   10233373  27  Unknown
/dev/sda2   *        1275  20111  151303168   6  FAT16
/dev/sda3           20111  38914  151032832   7  HPFS/NTFS
Have tried: 
mount /dev/sda2 /media/windows -t fat -o ro
mount /dev/sda2 /media/windows -t vfat -o ro
mount /dev/sda3 /media/windows -t ntfs -o ro
mount /dev/sda2 /media/windows -o ro
but I just get 2 pages of Help pages for the Mount command. What am I doing wrong?

Software/Hardware used:
ubuntu 10.04, Acer F5100, SATA HDD 320GB
ASKED: May 7, 2010  7:35 PM
UPDATED: May 10, 2010  1:27 PM
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Just incorrect sequence of the parameters: mount [-t fs-type] [-o option,option...] dev mountpoint So, mount -t vfat -o ro /dev/sda2 /media/windows and mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/sda3 /media/windows will most probably work. Also, type could be omitted - mount is quite capable to determine fs-type. Good luck, Petko
Last Wiki Answer Submitted:  May 10, 2010  1:27 pm  by  petkoa   3,120 pts.
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