On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 02:38, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I don't think the partition magic rescue disks are meant for filesystem repair > so much as power failure recovery. At least that's the case with System > Commander, which also can resize and move partitions.
Possible, to be honest I was just assuming that they are capable of repairing. Next time I better check what can and cannot be done with a rescue disk. > If you don't want to use non-free software you might try mounting the partition > read-only using Linux' NTFS filesystem driver and tarring the data off. Yeap, that is what I already did to access important stuff. The thing is that currently I only have my laptop here without any other computer available, and my linux partition is already filled with tarballs from w2k. But since there is no real need to hurry, I will probably use eth0 to transfer everything to a friends pc next week. > But to run Win2k's filesystem check: > > Boot into Windows. > > Open "My Computer" and right-click on your hard drive icon > > Click the tools tab. > > Click the button in the "error checking" box. You probably want to check the > "Fix errors automatically" box but maybe you want to not get errors fixed the > first time through so you can just see what's wrong. > > Click OK. > > If this is your boot volume Windows will tell you it can't get a lock on the > drive, and offer to schedule it for the next startup. Click OK. > > Reboot. > > The filesystem check will run late in the Windows startup process, before the > desktop background appears. There will be some progress information. I think > if errors are found it will repair them and reboot so it can run the check again. > > I don't know if it will fix your problem but it's worked for me. Since I cannot even boot Windows successful that option is not a viable one for me right now, thanks for the specific explanation anyway ;) > Before anyone suggest you should have resized your partitions with GNU parted, I > just user parted to resize nine partitions on my laptop (3 fat, 2 ext2, 2 BeOS > BFS, 1 linux swap, 1 extended to contain the logical partitions). > > I had two segmentation violations while I was working with parted, and after I > was done I found that running e2fsck on my ext2 linux root partition would spew > a bunch of errors and then make e2fsck crash. The errors can't be repaired, I'm > going to have to reinitialize the filesystem and reinstall Linux. And ss far as I can see from the description of the parted package, it won't work for ntfs ... thanks for the warning though. I was just hoping there is some 'magic trick' I could perform to repair the w2k partition using a linux tool ... but we will see. Thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
