mghaines1982
12-21-2007, 08:39 PM
Hi all,
I appreciate this is going to be a pretty newb-ish question, have pity on a poor XP using trying to repair his corrupted NTFS filesystem :oops: :lol:
I downloaded and made the Knoppix Boot CD as recommended to try and fix an 'NTFS.sys is missing or corrupt' error message in XP's boot up - I'm in Knoppix's X Windows now, but my wireless mouse hasn't been set up. What I need to know is how to get myself to a shell using keyboard commands while I have no mouse use. If it's not a simple process to get the mouse working I'm not worried, I just need to be able to follow the instructions I've pasted from http://www.retosphere.de/tipsandtricks/ntfserror.php?menu_id=20& below -
1. Boot Knoppix
2. Open Shell
3. Type "su" and press enter. (this makes you root)
4. Type "cfdisk" and press enter.
5. You will see all your partitions on your hard disk. They are e.g. hda1 (probably your C:), hda5 (D:) ... Check those where filesystem is NTFS.
6. Write these down! You should then have a list like: hda1, hda5, hda6
7. Exit cfdisk.
8. Now type: "ntfsfix /dev/hda1" and press enter.
9. Do this and replace hda1 with all occurences on your list.
10. Close Knoppix and reboot.
Any help with key commands to open a shell would be reeeeally appreciated! :)
Thanks,
Mitchell
I appreciate this is going to be a pretty newb-ish question, have pity on a poor XP using trying to repair his corrupted NTFS filesystem :oops: :lol:
I downloaded and made the Knoppix Boot CD as recommended to try and fix an 'NTFS.sys is missing or corrupt' error message in XP's boot up - I'm in Knoppix's X Windows now, but my wireless mouse hasn't been set up. What I need to know is how to get myself to a shell using keyboard commands while I have no mouse use. If it's not a simple process to get the mouse working I'm not worried, I just need to be able to follow the instructions I've pasted from http://www.retosphere.de/tipsandtricks/ntfserror.php?menu_id=20& below -
1. Boot Knoppix
2. Open Shell
3. Type "su" and press enter. (this makes you root)
4. Type "cfdisk" and press enter.
5. You will see all your partitions on your hard disk. They are e.g. hda1 (probably your C:), hda5 (D:) ... Check those where filesystem is NTFS.
6. Write these down! You should then have a list like: hda1, hda5, hda6
7. Exit cfdisk.
8. Now type: "ntfsfix /dev/hda1" and press enter.
9. Do this and replace hda1 with all occurences on your list.
10. Close Knoppix and reboot.
Any help with key commands to open a shell would be reeeeally appreciated! :)
Thanks,
Mitchell