[clue] NTFS logical structure corruption?

[David L. Willson]

Attach the hard drive to the newest Windows OS based computer you can find. Win7 with all updates is newest, I think.

>From the CLI, run:
   chkdsk x: /f/r/x
where x: is the drive-letter of the file-system you want to repair.

More steps later. Please DON'T try to repair a borked NTFS from Linux. Linux is great at lots of things, but that's not one of them.

--
David L. Willson
Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast
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This is a good time for a r3volution.

----- Original Message -----
> Hi all-- sorry if this isn't the right forum for this, but there's an
> Ubuntu thread so I thought I'd give it a shot.
> 
> A couple months ago my daughter's XP machine got infected with a
> nasty
> virus. After getting that all cleaned up, I discovered a folder/file
> on
> the NTFS filesystem that I can't access. Not sure if it was due to
> the
> virus or not. In any case, I'd like to delete it. XP won't let me
> enter
> the enclosing directory at all, even as administrator, working with
> access
> rights, etc.  I tried all the "sfc", "chkdsk", etc. approaches I knew
> of,
> to no avail. I also tried some surface scanners, but none of them
> found
> anything either.
> 
> So I booted the machine from an Ubuntu live cd, mounted the NTFS
> partition, and found Ubuntu couldn't access the file either. Ubuntu
> lets
> me enter the enclosing folder, but when I try to rm the file, I get
> an
> "operation not supported" message.
> 
> Looking around the filesystem a bit, I noticed a fair number of
> normal
> files (but not all) that have 2 hard links showing up on an "ls -l".
> Scanning the disk for the 2nd occurrence of the inode number for
> several
> files revealed nothing. Not sure if this is related or not.
> 
> I'm thinking the file system is logically corrupt somehow, but I
> tried a
> few of the "ntfs..." tools on Ubuntu, and nothing changed any of
> this.
> Does anyone know of any tools to repair (I think) the structure of an
> NTFS
> filesystem. Thanks...
> 
> Dave Shaw
> 
> 
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