[OT] Re: Mount NTFS disk as a read and write volume and not read only.

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 16:29 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 19:18 -0500, redhatdude at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > Surely less hassle if the disk wasn't completely full, 26k left. When  
> > I did what you're suggesting, the windows installer didn't recognize  
> > the parition format and wanted to reformat it. With ntfsfix I was  
> > able to repair the disk, cause windows crashed when the disk got  
> > full, and with ntfs-3g I mounted it and deleted all the junk it had.  
> > I put it back in the PC and windows booted with no problem.
> > Thanks
> > EJ
> 
> I find it rather amusing that Microsoft's own tools could not fix the
> NTFS stuff, but Free tools which were entirely reverse-engineered had no
> troubles fixing it. :)
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I would expect that if you put the drive into a computer that had a
Windows boot disk, you could mount the disk and do much the same thing.
Not much to marvel at...move on.

Craig