NTFS drive wont mount - "unknown filesystem"?

[Donatas]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:40 AM, David McNally <david3333333 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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> > From: David McNally
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> > Subject: Re: NTFS drive wont mount - "unknown filesystem"?
> > Sent: Jan 19, 2010 7:15 PM
> >
> > 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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Also You can try using Hiren's Boot CD (i assume the best one is v9.7, while
the 9.9 and 10.0 is buggy) and using the tools in it like for testing MHDD,
and then for removing bad sectors with HDD Regenerator (See HDD tools
section)


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Regards,
Donatas
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