[xubuntu-users] Hard disk damaged! Partition improperly dismounted with Xubuntu

[Vincent]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de> wrote:

> Vincent wrote:
> > But anyway, the reason this happened (not the hard drive crash but not
> > being able to boot WinXP nor Xubuntu) is because both were installed
> > onto an NTFS drive (which is Microsoft's filesystem format) which isn't
> > very good at handling this.
>
> Actually NTFS has a long and successfull history and it is a very robust
> filesystem.
> When the OP had not used partition magic, it might have been possible to
> save some data because of NTFS' robustness. However a fully crashed NTFS
> is no better than any fully crashed linux fs can be.


OK, then I'm glad I added the disclaimer, thanks ;-)


> (snip)
> regards
> Eberhard




-- 
Vincent
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