Hi To be honest, if you don't have windows, you might as well format the disc as EXT3, or even FAT32 if you are think you might be plugging into a windows machine at some time. I don't 100% trust using NTFS under Linux, and the problem you have come across here supports that.
Also, am I missing something? Why do you need a manual for a USB hard drive :) Cheers, Michael On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 08:32 +0000, Neil Greenwood wrote: > Hello all, > > I've just bought a LaCie USB hard disk. It had a Windows-only setup > program that installed the manuals and some software onto the newly > formatted NTFS partition. > > When I plug it into my Ubuntu box, I get an error message saying that > the disk could not be mounted because of an $MFT error. It suggests > running CHKDSK /F and rebooting twice under Windows. > > However, I don't have Windows on my machine, and I was wondering > someone knows an alternative command I could run under Ubuntu. I'm > running hardy at the moment. > > I'd prefer not to format it straight away, since I'd like the manuals > off the disk first, although apparently they're also available for > download from the LaCie website. > > > TIA. > Cofion, > Neil. > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
