NTFS drive wont mount - "unknown filesystem"?

[sdavmor]

David McNally wrote:
>>From what sdavmor and Preston said, it seems as though I should plug
> it into a Windows machine and run chkdsk on it. I do have an old XP
> machine that still works properly, so I suppose I'll try it on that. I
> suppose I need to go into Start - Accessories and find chkdsk in there
> somewhere. Probably not too hard.
> 
> If I do that, about how long should the chkdsk take? It's a 700 GB
> hard drive, with about 600 GB used. Will it need to run overnight?
> 
> Thanks.

Open a Windows DOS box (the cmd program). Then you can run:

chkdsk driveletter /flags

i.e. chkdsk z: /f

I think you'll want /? to see what flags are available to you.
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