You need a windows machine, and then run chkdsk C: /R/F <div class="gmail_quote">2010/4/7 <<a href="mailto:p.echols@comcast.net">p.echols@comcast.net</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"> ----- "Preston Hagar" <<a href="mailto:prestonh@gmail.com">prestonh@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:20 AM, stan <<a href="mailto:stanb@panix.com">stanb@panix.com</a>> wrote: > > I was tying to sue Ubuntu to help a friend recover data from a disk > from a > > crashed windows machine this weekend. Ultimately, I was unable to do > so > > because I could not get the ntfs partition on his disk mounted. This > appears > > to be because the disk had not been "marked clean" when his machine > > crashed, or at least that is how I interpreted the error message. > Even adding > > the "force" option to the ntfs flavor of mount did not work. > > > > Am I interpreting this correctly? If so, is there a tool that can do > the > > equivalent of fsck for ntfs? > > > > > > There is ntfsfix, which sometimes helps: > > sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs > > ntfsfix /dev/sdX </div>You can also try TestDisk found in the repos or on the Ubuntu Rescue Remix cd. Testdisk can restore or rebuild a borked boot sector or repair the master file table. More info in the man page or here: <a href="http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/node/57" target="_blank">http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/node/57</a> -- PE <div><div></div><div class="h5"> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Xie Shaohu, Beijing - China msn: <a href="mailto:shaohu.xie@hotmail.com">shaohu.xie@hotmail.com</a> skype: shaohu.xie blog: <a href="http://xieshaohu.spaces.live.com/">http://xieshaohu.spaces.live.com/</a>