Drive error

[Liam Proven]

On 23 October 2010 00:25, Keith Clark <keithclark at waterloohosting.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 00:18 +0100, Liam Proven 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.
>>
> Liam,
>
> Actually I came across ntfsfix and that seemed to do the trick!  I'm
> back up and running.

Oh, well, OK, good for you. I've never had NTFSfix repair a single
problem on any damaged NTFS volume yet, myself - and I'm unlikely to
now as I've stopped using it as a result. I carry a Win7 recovery CD
in the toolkit now instead.

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