<div dir="ltr">Pretty much as the man says, I have however found that ntfs is relatively stable as a filesystem. If your linux install can read it ok. its usually just a bad index or something that causes windows to fail to read it. seen similar cases where a knoppix disk was able to read an ntfs partition perfectly, but windows xp truncated the contents of a media folder, chkdsk was able to resolve this without data loss. I would still recommend against storing important data on ntfs, id much rather have all my data sat on an file system that has had its source looked at by a decent number of geeks :D<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/16 Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk">martin@ml1.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Danny King wrote:<br>
> Thanks I'll give that a shot. Will that risk the data on the partition?<br>
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</div>There is always a risk of the data getting 'scrambled'.<br>
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'Tis wise to always backup _before_ you do anything radical.<br>
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'Tis wise to have a backup in the first place!<br>
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I'll concur on the chkdsk driveletter: /f or whatever idea. Do a chkdsk<br>
/? first to check the options.<br>
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If Windows is booting up ok, then you may be able to do a<br>
checkdisk/repair if that partition is visible to the disk tools.<br>
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A good question is what changed just before you found the problem?<br>
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Has that partition merely been marked as "hidden"?<br>
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Good luck,<br>
Martin<br>
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