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Sheldon Isaac wrote:
>
> My PC has 2 hard drives. The first one has C: and D:, 
> the second one E:  F:  and G: in an extended partition, 
> no primary partitions.
> 
> When in BasicLinux, I can mount /dev/hda1 /mnt, and thus 
> access my C: drive.  But not any others of the MS-DOS 
> logical drives; 

How exactly are you trying to mount them?

> I get stuff like this:
> 
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >

It looks to me like your D: drive is /dev/hda5.
Have you tried:  mount /dev/hda5 /mnt

>  hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 >

And your E: drive is probably /dev/hdb5.  And so on.
Try:  mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt 

Cheers,
Steven