[Nottingham] Vista can't find my shared partidion

[asif maqbool]

This takes me back to my days of wintel support.

try chckdsk /f on that partition then reboot TWICE.  This  normally
resolved filesystem issues on xp, so if the command is still valid it should
work.

2008/9/16 Danny King <dannyking at gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
> This is a borderline Linux / Vista issue so feel free to ignore if
> it's off topic.
>
> My laptop duel boots Ubuntu & Vista and has a shared partition that
> they can both access (I can't remember if it's NTFS or FAT32, probably
> NTFS though.) Several months ago Vista stopped being able to read the
> partition - it can see it but complains that it's not accessible. I
> don't know what caused this, but the data seems fine because I can
> access it all as normal from the Ubuntu installation.
>
> So an obvious fix it to backup and repartition, but it's quite a large
> partition so I wonder if anyone knows a way to repair it so that Vista
> doesn't puke?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> - Danny King of Gleaming Pixel Web Design.
>
> Email: danny at gleamingpixel.co.uk / dannyking at gmail.com
> Web: www.GleamingPixel.co.uk
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take it easy

Asif
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