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VFAT Problems with 200GB disk
Im pretty confused, so I will try to tell you what happened. I have a disk
with a 50GB NTFS partition and a 140GB VFAT partition. I've been using the
second one for some time from my linux, and it is full of stuff. Today I
finally decided to install a WinXP on the 50GB partition, and that when
weird thing started to happen.
First I notice there are a few directories I cannot see from Windows. Then
I boot linux and find some errors while doing dosfsck. Some file of the
kind of fsck0001.ren apear on a directory called System Volume
Information. All are empty but the rest of the files in the partition
appear unaffected. SO I copy a lot of stuff from my linux
instillation to my VFAT filesystem and swap back to windows. And when I'm
back to linux again things get even uglier.
dosfsck does not even finish and when runing "dosfsck -v -l -r /dev/hdc5"
(wich is my VFAT partition) I get messages like
- Reserved long filename slot is not 0 ...
- Unfinished long filename ...
And when I mount the partition, the last folder I told you I made is all
f**ked up, with lots or weird names and many more files than it should
be, also some files are supposed to have a huge size. Its nuts. also some
files I created under Windows show similar behavior, like one folder I
created called wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww that was empty,
while mounting it in linux is full on crazy files.
On Windows things seem to work fine, except for a few directories that
cannot be seen.
Any ideas of what can be happening here????
Thanx a lot for your time.
Miki
PD: If you need more information feel free to ask.
PDD: I ran scandisk on windows and it didn't report any problem
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