hi everybody since I'm periodically burning some installation-CD of various puppylinux, I want to ask a small question: have you ever thought of back-up-ing the usb and just format it again?
... or am I misunderstanding? 2017-05-23 21:33 GMT+02:00 Fungi4All <fungil...@protonmail.com>: > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Re: puppy Linux reports problems with USB/network drive > UTC Time: May 21, 2017 11:33 AM > From: pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org > > Le 21/05/2017 à 04:56, Albert Hodge a écrit : > > > > When I plugged it into the USB port it gave a warning message, that the > > NTFS -3g driver was able to mount the NTFS partition but says, Dirty > > volume mount was forced by the "force" mount option. It is mounted > > read/write, but advice is only write to it in emergency situation. > > recommendation is boot windows and fix the filesystem first!!!!! > > > > It's going to be a while before I can get a system built to run winxp, > > is there a Linux option I can run on this old computer to fix the drive? > > You can try ntfsck or ntfsfix from ntfs-3g (formerly ntfsprogs). > Use with caution. > > > testdisk may be able to at least tell you what if anything may be wrong > with it. > > Also I am told that team-os https://www.teamos-hkrg.com/index.php iso of > win installations are pretty reliable and download quick. Just plug in and > install, no keys nothing ... Make sure you get their latest security fixed > edition. > > > -- linux user #521635
