NTFS drive wont mount - "unknown filesystem"?

[David McNally]

Great! Do you know how long it should take?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:17 PM,  <276764 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. That should work.
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> Hi again.
>
> If I log in as administrator, will I get all of the rights that I want?
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:10 PM, sdavmor <sdavmor at systemstheory.net> wrote:
>> 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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