live booted knoppix, played .avi from external hd, now xp says its unformatted

cubis · 02-26-2010, 01:01 AM

so i'm running windows xp sp 2

i used a live boot cd from knoppix, checking to see if my hardware worked with linux. i opened a video from my external firewire drive and now that i'm back in windows, when i try to access it Windows tells me its not formatted and asks if i want to do so

i think it has something to do with the fact that linux puts both drives into a single file system

i don't want to lose all the movies and tv shows i have on there, so is there something i can do to fix this problem?

jefro · 02-26-2010, 05:05 PM

No, what you are talking about is not the same issue.

What version did you use?

In any case you need to try something testdisk or other recovery software if windows can't perform chkdsk /F.

cubis · 02-26-2010, 07:14 PM

I used version 6.2 because it had more seeders when I torrented it.

Oddly enough, even though I had restarted to see if that would fix the problem yesterday, today when I booted up my pc the external hd came up fine. I even watched the same video and it was ok.

Should I do some precautionary tests anyway or do you think it was a one time thing? I've never had any hard drive incidents so I'm quite the noob at this kind of thing. This firewire drive is only like a week or two old for what it's worth.

I heard that Linux has trouble with NTFS formatting, which is the format of both the internal and external drives. Could that be an issue?

syg00 · 02-26-2010, 07:39 PM

Modern Linux distros (including Knoppix) handle NTFS fine. Last I looked Knoppix mounted everything read only, but I haven't checked in a while.
Checking the disk can't hurt, but other than that, I'd probably just pretend it never happened.

cubis · 02-26-2010, 08:00 PM

Lol, yeah I'm not going to worry about it but I guess I should check the disk... and uh, how would I do that? :X

jefro · 02-26-2010, 08:15 PM

I guess it could be that the disk you made was somehow defective. Boot to option testcd to be sure. http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes

Also might need to use option nofstab.

Linux tends to have two ways to handle ntfs in XP. A build in mount is under ntfs and most newer distro's offer ntfs-3g.

I would consider using disk tests on the external drive after you backed up the data.