Re: Ntfs compability

[hex1a4 <hex1a4@hex1a4.net>]

Tommi Tapani Piirainen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have slackware 10.1. I rewrote my ntfs partition with cfdisk and now I
> am unable to boot the partition (with windows xp). Can the problem be that
> i wrote the table with cfdisk or could it be some thing else. In
> additional there is two different ntfs partition is cfdisk both named same
> way. I used the first one can't remember the number (or was it 86, don't
> remember).
> 
> The reason for doing this was to include slackware to same disk. First I
> deleted ntfs partition and made it smaller. Motivation for doing this was
> mbr chrash due use of "System Mechanic 6" or at least I think so. I
> intalled lilo to mbr and it fixed the mbr problem. Booting problems can
> also have some thing to do with System Mechanic 6 altering my dll-files or
> some thing else.
> 
> The ntfs partition is first partition in the disk and I use
> lilo-bootloader. Can I fix the partition with ntfstools to be bootable?
> 

Your best bet might be to use windows' fixmbr to repair the boot record then
using a live linux cd repair lilo.  Further, to access ntfs partitions in
linux you should mount them as ntfs-3g.

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