On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 16:29 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 19:18 -0500, redhatdude@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Surely less hassle if the disk wasn't completely full, 26k left. When > > I did what you're suggesting, the windows installer didn't recognize > > the parition format and wanted to reformat it. With ntfsfix I was > > able to repair the disk, cause windows crashed when the disk got > > full, and with ntfs-3g I mounted it and deleted all the junk it had. > > I put it back in the PC and windows booted with no problem. > > Thanks > > EJ > > I find it rather amusing that Microsoft's own tools could not fix the > NTFS stuff, but Free tools which were entirely reverse-engineered had no > troubles fixing it. :) ---- I would expect that if you put the drive into a computer that had a Windows boot disk, you could mount the disk and do much the same thing. Not much to marvel at...move on. Craig
