RE: a big big problem with a drive

2010-08-15 Thread Simon Fogarty
Subject: Re: a big big problem with a drive Ype I got it works. I run everything as admin anyway and it works now. thanks. On Aug 14, 2010, at 3:33 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: Windows machine is windows vista or windows 7. Then go into start menu, all programs, accessories then scroll down till

Re: a big big problem with a drive

2010-08-15 Thread Sarah Alawami
the services. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com]on Behalf Of Sarah Alawami Sent: Sunday, 15 August 2010 12:01 a.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: a big big problem with a drive Ype I got it works. I run everything as admin

RE: a big big problem with a drive

2010-08-14 Thread Simon Fogarty
: a big big problem with a drive I tried that. but it scanned in read only mode when I just typed chkdsk in the cmd prompt. That's the first step I did but I'll try it again. Oh and I ran chkdsk throught the windows property dialogue as well. No issues I think. On Aug 12, 2010, at 3:54 AM, Erik

Re: a big big problem with a drive

2010-08-14 Thread Sarah Alawami
[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com]on Behalf Of Sarah Alawami Sent: Friday, 13 August 2010 4:56 a.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: a big big problem with a drive I tried that. but it scanned in read only mode when I just typed chkdsk in the cmd prompt. That's the first step I did

Re: a big big problem with a drive

2010-08-12 Thread Sarah Alawami
I'm replying with the error message. it is the following I managed to reproduce when plugging in the drive. Now mind you this thing works very well, flawlessly in fact under windows. NTFS-3G could not mount /dev/disk1s5 at /Volumes/Untitled because the following problem occurred: $MFTMirr does

Re: a big big problem with a drive

2010-08-12 Thread Erik Heil
Hi. First of all, I'm going to assume that you don't have a RAID setup. If you did, you'd likely know about it. So, just ignore those errors. To fix this error, reboot into Windows, enter cmd.exe and when you get to the prompt, type chkdsk /F and the drive letter Windows assigns to it. Windows

Re: a big big problem with a drive

2010-08-12 Thread Sarah Alawami
I tried that. but it scanned in read only mode when I just typed chkdsk in the cmd prompt. That's the first step I did but I'll try it again. Oh and I ran chkdsk throught the windows property dialogue as well. No issues I think. On Aug 12, 2010, at 3:54 AM, Erik Heil wrote: Hi. First of all,

Re: a big big problem with a drive

2010-08-12 Thread Sarah Alawami
Thanks thanks thanks! it worked like a charm. I'm glad I have windows also installed on this thing. I ran scan disk twice and defragged the whole thing. took about 6 hours but it was well worth the wait. Thanks again. On Aug 12, 2010, at 3:54 AM, Erik Heil wrote: Hi. First of all, I'm going

a big big problem with a drive

2010-08-11 Thread Sarah Alawami
hello. I can access this drive on windows fine but nt on mac. I have ntfs3g and macfuse installed A few days ago I received this odd message. i have a recording of me troubleshooting but basically I ran chkdsk and rebooted twice in to windows then I tried to repair permissions ont he drive with