On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 17:41 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 26 November 2006 02:13, you wrote:
> > Could you please also test that whether Vista boots if you remove
> > /pagefile.sys after ntfsresize? You can use ntfs-3g for this, it's in
> > Debian unstable. Usage: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html#usage
> > Or use a LiveCD which has both. The above page lists several of them.
>
> Used ntfs-3g for this, but Vista still refuses to boot.
>
> But.... progress!
>
> I've managed to boot Vista using the following procedure (which I found by
> accident when ntfs-3g complained about not being able to mount the NTFS
> partition):
> - resize Vista partition
> - reboot into Vista (which fails at the point we all know so well by now)
> Vista marks the boot as unsuccessful (next boot it will offer the safe
> boot option, but still not run chkdsk by itself)
I do not get the safe boot offer from Vista - but I resized a data
partition rather than the system partition...
> - reboot into linux
> - (try mounting the partition using ntfs-3g which fails)
I did not do this.
> - run ntfsfix
> - reboot into Vista, this will at last run chkdsk!
> - Vista reboots automatically after the chkdsk and this time successfully!
Yes, same here.
> So, what does ntfsfix do on a ntfs volume marked "dirty" by Vista that
> ntfsresize does not?
Nothing! In particular I found that running ntfsresize followed by
ntfsfix still causes the same vista boot problem. Then running ntfsfix
again and booting vista again causes chkdsk to run and vista to work.
So it is not what ntfsfix does but the need to do it twice with a failed
vista boot in-between.
Best regards,
Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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