On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Rtr.Atreya Roy Chowdhury <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Rtr.Atreya Roy Chowdhury > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> every time i try to mount one of my drives the follow crops up. >> Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: ntfs_attr_pread_i: Zero >> run >> length: Input/output error >> ntfs_attr_pread_i: Failed to find VCN #1: Input/output error >> Failed to calculate free MFT records: Input/output error >> NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a >> SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows >> then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very >> important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate >> it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. >> /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation >> for more details. >> can any one tell me how to take care of this....because all my important >> works are in that drive... > > i do not have a windows operating system in my system..so have no way of > doing chkdsk /f > is this an internal drive or an external drive? in either case, is it possible to try the drive on a borrowed / friend's windows machine? I don't have Windows on my machine either, but when I've faced this problem, I've had to resort to finding a Windows machine to take care of this. As I understand it, it is caused due to errors in the ntfs file-system. In my case, the errors were almost caused due to the drive running on a Windows machine, and since the file-system is ntfs, I generally would think it best to try and take care of it on a windows machine (as I would try and fix hfs drives on a mac machine and ext3 drives on a linux machine, etc.. )
If you are completely unable to access a Windows machine, you can try using something like ntfsfix: sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs man ntfsfix As you will see the ntfsfix manual page describe, it can be used to fix some ntfs problems, but in the end, you really want to do chkdsk on a windows machine since it is ntfs. If you feel like doing a bit of work, you can maybe try installing Windows in VirtualBox or some virtual machine environment and run chkdisk from there. I would strongly recommend trying doing exactly as the error message you got asked you to do before messing around with it in other ways. Maybe others have other solutions / ideas .. Best of luck! -Sanjay -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
