On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 15:34 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 27 November 2006 15:17, you wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That's not how I see it...
> ntfsfix behaves differently when it is run _after_ the failed Vista boot
> *because Vista marks the partition dirty*, but it is still ntfsfix
> that "fixes" the real problem which triggers Vista to run chkdsk on its
> next boot.
> If you run ntfsfix after the resize, but _before_ booting Vista, it
> effectively does nothing as the partition is not marked "dirty".
That is wrong. It always does the same thing no matter what the
partition is marked as... Trust me, I wrote it so I should know! (-:
Best regards,
Anton
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Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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