Ype I got it works. I run everything as admin anyway and it works now. thanks. On Aug 14, 2010, at 3:33 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote:
> Windows machine is windows vista or windows 7. Then go into start menu, all > programs, accessories then scroll down till you find command prompt. Right > click on the command prompt option, and then from the menu, select run as > administrator. > Then try running the command chkdsk /f on your problem drive. > If it’s c drive, you may have to say yes to It being done after the machine > re starts. > > > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com]on Behalf Of Sarah Alawami > Sent: Friday, 13 August 2010 4:56 a.m. > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: a big big problem with a drive > > I tried that. but it scanned in read only mode when I just typed chkdsk in > the cmd prompt. That's the first step I did but I'll try it again. Oh and I > ran chkdsk throught the windows property dialogue as well. No issues I think. > On Aug 12, 2010, at 3:54 AM, Erik Heil wrote: > > > Hi. > First of all, I'm going to assume that you don't have a RAID setup. If you > did, you'd likely know about it. So, just ignore those errors. To fix this > error, reboot into Windows, enter cmd.exe and when you get to the prompt, > type "chkdsk /F" and the drive letter Windows assigns to it. Windows will > most likely complain about inconsistent entries in the MFT (similar to old > FAT filesystems on floppy disks or other media.) Go ahead and have Windows > fix those errors. When the process is complete, try mounting the filesystem > again. You shouldn't get any errors at this point. Note that Windows is a bit > conservative about displaying errors--in this case ntfs 3G did you a favor. > While not serious, there is a potential for these errors to become much more > serious over time. > > --Erik > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Sarah Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm replying with the error message. it is the following I managed to > reproduce when plugging in the drive. Now mind you this thing works very > well, flawlessly in fact under windows. > > NTFS-3G could not mount /dev/disk1s5 > at /Volumes/Untitled because the following problem occurred: > > $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0). > Failed to mount '/dev/rdisk1s5': Input/output error > NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a > SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows > then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very > important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate > it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. > /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation > for more details. > > Ok what does this mean? And how can I fix it? > On Aug 11, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > > > hello. I can access this drive on windows fine but nt on mac. I have ntfs3g > > and macfuse installed A few days ago I received this odd message. i have a > > recording of me troubleshooting but basically I ran chkdsk and rebooted > > twice in to windows then I tried to repair permissions ont he drive with no > > success. Here ya go. the error message happened to be caught on tape. I > > cann ot transcribe it. 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