On 11/20/06, Peter Gordon <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. :)
As someone who has had to fix a laptop in a similiar scenario, there's nothing funny about that. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud
