[Nottingham] Vista can't find my shared partidion

[Danny King]

Thanks I'll give that a shot. Will that risk the data on the partition?

2008/9/16 asif maqbool <asifbadkarma at gmail.com>:
> 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!
>>
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>> - Danny King of Gleaming Pixel Web Design.
>>
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>
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>
> Asif
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