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08-10-2007, 07:33 PM
I am having trouble getting write access to my Windows partition, which fails to boot now. I want to try to try some repair techniques but it requires moving files around, which requires write access.
It is an NTFS partition.
On Knoppix, it mounted the device as:
/dev/hda1 on mount point /media/hda1
The first thing I tried doing, is right-clicking the hard disk icon on desktop and chose "change read/write mode". Said yes to the popup and then got the following message: "The remount command failed. Maybe there is another process accessing the filesystem currently".
Then I looked online and found a command I could try on the command line, so I wrote it as this:
mount -t ntfs -o rw /dev/hda1 /media/hda1
And I get the following response:
Failed to mount '/dev/hda1': Operation is not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS is unclean. Choose one of these actions:
...
The first option had something to do with making sure windows shut down cleanly- not sure how it determines that but anyway this is impossible because windows crashed.
The last option was to mount in read-only mode. Not what I want.
So I try the second option which is to run ntfsfix, typing: ntfsfix /dev/hda1
and it just hanging there. unless this is supposed to take a really long time (over 10 minutes now) then I think it's safe to say it ain't working. (though I am still leaving it to hang there, afraid to try and cancel it. hoping by some miracle it will finish)
Any other ideas?
It is an NTFS partition.
On Knoppix, it mounted the device as:
/dev/hda1 on mount point /media/hda1
The first thing I tried doing, is right-clicking the hard disk icon on desktop and chose "change read/write mode". Said yes to the popup and then got the following message: "The remount command failed. Maybe there is another process accessing the filesystem currently".
Then I looked online and found a command I could try on the command line, so I wrote it as this:
mount -t ntfs -o rw /dev/hda1 /media/hda1
And I get the following response:
Failed to mount '/dev/hda1': Operation is not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS is unclean. Choose one of these actions:
...
The first option had something to do with making sure windows shut down cleanly- not sure how it determines that but anyway this is impossible because windows crashed.
The last option was to mount in read-only mode. Not what I want.
So I try the second option which is to run ntfsfix, typing: ntfsfix /dev/hda1
and it just hanging there. unless this is supposed to take a really long time (over 10 minutes now) then I think it's safe to say it ain't working. (though I am still leaving it to hang there, afraid to try and cancel it. hoping by some miracle it will finish)
Any other ideas?