On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ..
If you have a free hard disk drive you could try recovering the data from the NTFS partition using testdisk. You could then reformat the offending partition(s) and put your files back there. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk It is a last resort of course, there may be better ways to fix the partition. > > Best of luck! > -Sanjay > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
