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| Thread ID: 33254 | 2003-05-12 01:59:00 | Corrupt files on NTFS drive under WinXP Pro | Graham Petrie (449) | Press F1 |
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| 143343 | 2003-05-13 09:38:00 | Poppa John Begs forgiveness from Graham Petrie. I put your phone No on a piece of paper in a "safe" place & could not find it again. I was supposed to call to when you arrived in Papatoetoe. SORRY, In the meantime we have left Pap & are now in Wanganui. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 143344 | 2003-05-13 13:42:00 | >> If you're hoping to boot from Knoppix - dont bother.. It wouldnt let me install the >> NTFS rpm file, so that idea for me went out the window a while back.. come to think of it, it wont >> let me install any rpms.. even when Im root? Knoppix is booting from the CD. It stores itself in RAM, and not on ROM. At no stage while running Knoppix does the HDD thash, however the CD does quite a bit. |
raddersnz (684) | ||
| 143345 | 2003-05-13 20:45:00 | Actually Radz> Knoppix has saved my butt many a times! It is a great recovery tool to say the very least, which shows why I have about 10 of the Knoppix CD's! MTFS can only be read at this stage by Linux due to the File System having no documentation by Microsoft or something like that, so the programmers are having to work from the ground up, starting from absolutely nothing. FAT32, FAT16, MS-Formatted Floppies all read perfectly fine in Linux, and are writable too, Just not NTFS. Well... I lie actually... you can write to it, but when I last check the website, they stated that you would likely lose the data on your hdd! So, by all means use Knoppix - If you format with FAT32 next time. Because of NTFS's in-ability to be read by Linux, I wont use it. NTFS cant even be read by DOS, and this is Windows we're talking about.. I think Im one of the few people here who has, on a number of occasions and different PC's, done a format and re-install over 5 times on a single PC in less that 12 hours! My Linux record is two times in 12 hours... But anyways, especially the latest Knoppix 3.2, its shaping out to be great, and I picked up a pre-release from ICE. What Im saying is there seems to be a lot of people who corrupt things on NTFS... and have a hard time fixing them. FAT users seem to get off a whole lot easier! Dont take this in the wrong way dude - Im just sticking up for Knoppix which has saved my ass on countless occasions, and I wouldnt be without it! Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 143346 | 2003-05-14 06:11:00 | Forgiveness given PJ. I rang you and left a message on your answer machine in Paps, and never got a reply, so thought I'd wait until I got back online. Meanwhile you have snuck of to Wanga's. I am living in Wallace Road in old Paptoetoe, but will be moving soon to some swanky suburb in the outskirts of Manurewa or Papakura in a few weeks thanks to my new fat paycheck ;). Anyway, thanks for the suggestions, the file extension one sounds promosing. Will touch base again tomorrow with my results. G P |
Graham Petrie (449) | ||
| 143347 | 2003-05-14 22:02:00 | Problem fixed. When the computer crashed dur8ing the copy, Windows must have decided to lock the files down so they couldn't be edited. Whilst in Safe Mode trying to remove them for the umptenth time, I decided to view the security properties of the files. (I was sure that the files were in fact intact as the folder said it contained 84mb even though the files had a zero length). The files were restricted to read only which restricted me from deleting them (not just readonly ticked under properties). So, I added my username under objects, and ticked the modify box, and viola!! Problem solved. Thanks for all the help G P |
Graham Petrie (449) | ||
| 143348 | 2005-03-07 18:41:00 | I used to have this issue all the time where files wouldn't delete for whatever reason. I've had much success by opening a cmd prompt, then closing explorer. (ctrl-alt-del / processes / explorer) Once explorer is closed, use the cmd window to navigate to your 'locked' files and delete them. Once they've deleted you can hit ctrl-alt-del again, and start a new process (explorer) to open your shell again. Hope this helps! | afr0ninja (3774) | ||
| 143349 | 2005-03-07 21:24:00 | This thread is nearly two years old Afro, and the last post explained how the problem was resolved, so there is little point in bringing it forward again. If a post shows "Guest" instead of a user name it means it dates back to the earlier version of this forum, but checking the date of the last post is always a good idea anyway. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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