restore NTFS consistency without windows

Siljrath · 11-23-2010, 11:06 PM

anytime my external drive gets unplugged improperly, or the laptop shutsdown abruptly (overheating/battery), it's NTFS partition is unmountable.

gparted informs me to:

Quote:

run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice

but i no longer have windows, and would prefer to find a way to restore the drive's functionality without having to visit someone who uses windows every time this happens.

is there a way to restore NTFS consistency without windows?

syg00 · 11-23-2010, 11:13 PM

Don't use NTFS - especially if you no longer have Windows. It's Microsoft proprietary, and they don't publish the internals (fully).

NTFS is handy (with Windows), but this is a real problem - the linux-ntfs project was looking at it a while back, but I don't know what's happening now (at Tuxera).

Siljrath · 11-23-2010, 11:44 PM

yeah, thats not really helpful tho.

next hd i get, i plan to migrate to ext, but for now, i still have over 2tb worth of ntfs partitions (1.5tb on the external hd in question).

i tried ntfsfix,

Code:

$ ntfsfix /dev/sdb1
Mounting volume... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sdb1 was processed successfully.

but once that's done, it still seems to be the same old problem. nothing resolved by ntfsfix. :/

~edit~
ran "check" in gparted, despite the terrifying warning about potential loss of data. -produced an error, still back to square 1, informing me that no changes will be made by gparted until rebooting in windows twice.

syg00 · 11-23-2010, 11:59 PM

ntfsfix is a lightweight tool (my terminology), not for this functionality.
Unfortunately you need to get it done under Windows.

Siljrath · 11-24-2010, 12:04 AM

:/

new hd added to christmas/birthday wishlist.