[OT] Re: Mount NTFS disk as a read and write volume and not read only.

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 11/20/06, Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 19:18 -0500, redhatdude at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > Surely less hassle if the disk wasn't completely full, 26k left. When
> > I did what you're suggesting, the windows installer didn't recognize
> > the parition format and wanted to reformat it. With ntfsfix I was
> > able to repair the disk, cause windows crashed when the disk got
> > full, and with ntfs-3g I mounted it and deleted all the junk it had.
> > I put it back in the PC and windows booted with no problem.
> > Thanks
> > EJ
>
> I find it rather amusing that Microsoft's own tools could not fix the
> NTFS stuff, but Free tools which were entirely reverse-engineered had no
> troubles fixing it. :)

As someone who has had to fix a laptop in a similiar scenario, there's
nothing funny about that.

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