Drive error

[Mark]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 October 2010 23:41, Keith Clark <keithclark at waterloohosting.com> wrote:
>> I just had the following message show up out of the blue.  The drive was
>> fine up to that point and has been in use for the past year or so.  It
>> is an USB drive.
>>
>> Not sure what to do next, as I do not own Windows.
>
> Well, you're going to need a copy to fix an NTFS drive. Go into an
> Internet café or a library or a computer shop or  something and run
> CHKDSK /F on it.
>
I think ntfs-fuse comes with an ntfs.fsck that might work for you if
you really don't have a Win box for this.

Dontcha know any pirates, or trolls who do own Window$?  (I deny that
I ever said that!)

You can buy a laptop or netbook almost anywhere that comes with
Windoze and use that, then take it back because it has a defective OS
on it....  :-)

Mr. Wizard
(I'm not signing my name on *that*.)