Its a merge for all!

Panda Man · March 18th, 2007

They told me to bring my own weapons, they told me my safety was not guaranteed, but I didn't listen.

I decided to merge 2 of my partitions that seemed to be pretty much the same and resize them to give Vista a try. Partition Magic crapped on itself, and now I'm stuck with a "0" byte folder that is unaccessible... in Windows, and using unlocker I can rename and delete if I wish. In kubuntu I can read the files and they are all in tact, I even opened up a rar and ran an exe in wine, however all the partitions are NTFS and as you all know, writing to a NTFS filesystem in linux is like trying to play pool with a rope. I have room for a 7 gig FAT32 partition, so my plan is to copy the data from the folder onto the FAT32 partition and retransfer it to windows (there is about 30 gigs, so I'll have to move back and forth between OS's :( ). I was wondering if there is a more efficient way of doing this, I figured this will take about 45 minutes. I'm going to go to sleep and check on this thread tommorrow, so don't expect a reply until tomorrow afternoon, but thanks for any advice you can provide!

I know I should have an external HDD, but I am teh p00rz!

Panda Man · March 19th, 2007

UPDATE! I figured it out, I just had to take ownership of it. I also forgot to mention that I ran chkdsk on the drive and it found about 436345y743 errors, and then I lost complete control of the drive until I rebooted :0 Well all is well! I do have one question, there is a folder that was created by chkdsk called found.000 - Is it ok to trash this?

Lead Head · March 19th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Panda Man

UPDATE! I figured it out, I just had to take ownership of it. I also forgot to mention that I ran chkdsk on the drive and it found about 436345y743 errors, and then I lost complete control of the drive until I rebooted :0 Well all is well! I do have one question, there is a folder that was created by chkdsk called found.000 - Is it ok to trash this?

If you can get your files back ok, then its ok to junk it.

EDIT: I remeber one time, Windows XP nuked itself, and wouldn't boot anymore. I install Windows 2000 on another HD, and checked the XP HD. It found a few million errors like that
then on reboot all the files were not accesible and the data was corrupted

yurimxpxman · March 19th, 2007

I'm glad you figured it out, but as an FYI, both the latest Linux kernel (2.6.20.x) and ntfs-3g have full r/w support for NTFS now.

Panda Man · March 24th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lead Head

If you can get your files back ok, then its ok to junk it.

Roger!

Quote:

Originally Posted by yurimxpxman

I'm glad you figured it out, but as an FYI, both the latest Linux kernel (2.6.20.x) and ntfs-3g have full r/w support for NTFS now.

Yea, that would have been useful :P Thanks for the info!

March 18th, 2007	#1
Panda Man Meow means woof in cat. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Elba, AL Posts: 1,907	Its a merge for all! They told me to bring my own weapons, they told me my safety was not guaranteed, but I didn't listen. I decided to merge 2 of my partitions that seemed to be pretty much the same and resize them to give Vista a try. Partition Magic crapped on itself, and now I'm stuck with a "0" byte folder that is unaccessible... in Windows, and using unlocker I can rename and delete if I wish. In kubuntu I can read the files and they are all in tact, I even opened up a rar and ran an exe in wine, however all the partitions are NTFS and as you all know, writing to a NTFS filesystem in linux is like trying to play pool with a rope. I have room for a 7 gig FAT32 partition, so my plan is to copy the data from the folder onto the FAT32 partition and retransfer it to windows (there is about 30 gigs, so I'll have to move back and forth between OS's :( ). I was wondering if there is a more efficient way of doing this, I figured this will take about 45 minutes. I'm going to go to sleep and check on this thread tommorrow, so don't expect a reply until tomorrow afternoon, but thanks for any advice you can provide! I know I should have an external HDD, but I am teh p00rz! Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD

March 19th, 2007	#2
Panda Man Meow means woof in cat. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Elba, AL Posts: 1,907	Re: Its a merge for all! UPDATE! I figured it out, I just had to take ownership of it. I also forgot to mention that I ran chkdsk on the drive and it found about 436345y743 errors, and then I lost complete control of the drive until I rebooted :0 Well all is well! I do have one question, there is a folder that was created by chkdsk called found.000 - Is it ok to trash this? Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD

March 19th, 2007	#4
yurimxpxman Banned Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: /home/yurimxpxman Posts: 1,695	Re: Its a merge for all! I'm glad you figured it out, but as an FYI, both the latest Linux kernel (2.6.20.x) and ntfs-3g have full r/w support for NTFS now.

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