Using a Live CD of CrunchBang to install chkdsk to a USB drive
 

My PC has been blue screening since yesterday, and I can't boot into Windows, which the rest of my family needs. I tried to repair from this live CD, but to no avail. If I had a XP Install disk, I'd be OK, but... I don't. I've read around, and it seems that I just need to run chkdsk, but that doesn't run under Linux, and there is no program to do the same under Linux. Does anyone know of a method to install and run chkdsk from a USB flash drive?

I'd go with Parted Magic or System Rescue.

Partedmagic

Blue screen

You can use Unetbootin to make the pendrive.

you can as well get some small windows vista repair disc and go to the cmd. then navigate to your partition of windows xp .

then run in the command line.

I doubt there is a way to run chkdsk from linux or anything close.

You would have to borrow an xp cd or maybe some bootdisk's are on the net. Maybe even some usb images but xp doesn't like usb boots. Can make a W7 usb that could use the tools on the disk maybe.

Consider making a bartsPE disk or similar ubcd4win to run ms tools.

I can't do that because I can't access Windows in anyway whatsoever. Everything has to be done from my Crunchbang CD. I basically need a tool that will allow me to make my USB jump drive into a recovery disk for my Windows Partition.

You'd need to access it from some ms OS that knows ntfs.

All this could be done in linux if you borrowed someones w7 dvd. Demo dvd' from ms work too. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m.../dd535816.aspx

But you should know someone that has an xp cd to borrow.

When you get it fixed then make a barts PE disk or usb.