OK, I've tried to read relevant threads before asking this, because it seems
to me that it shouldn't be hard. However, I'm now at the end of my rope:

I have a system with two IDE drives, each 60 gigs. I've divided the drives
into several partitions:

hda1 - (primary) NTFS (boot) ~ 30 GB
hda2 - (primary) Fat16 ~ 40 MB
hda3 - (primary) Ext2 ~ 30 GB
hda4 - (primary) Swap ~ 40 MB

hdb2 - (primary) Ext2 (boot) ~ 30 GB
hdb1 - (primary) NTFS (boot) ~ 29 GB
hdb3 - (extended) ~ 1 GB
hdb5 - (logical) FAT32 ~ 1 GB

hdb1 and hdb2 are switched, probably because of how I used PartitionMagic
to insert hdb1 in front of hdb2. This doesn't appear to be a problem,
because I can mount hdb2 just fine - that's where all of my currently
installed filesystems are located.

I created hdb5 to move files from Windows to Linux. But when I try to
mount -r -t vfat /dev/hdb5 /windows
I get
"wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5
or too many mounted file systems
(Aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)"

I've tried to look at the partition table of hdb, but when I try
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
I get nothing. When I try
fdisk /dev/hdb
the program terminates with the message "Unable to read /dev/hdb".

What do I try next?
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