Checking an HPFS/NTFS file system

[Net Llama!]

dd is your best bet for cloning a drive exactly.  tar would prolly work 
in a pinch.  Can you mount the NTFS patition under linux?  Can you read 
its contents?  Are there any errors when you do that?  In many cases, 
you shouldn't need any fancy vendor utilities to deterine that the drive 
is fscked.  What kind of drive is this?

On 07/03/03 21:01, Joel Hammer wrote:

> I dual boot a lindows computer and XP Pro.
> 
> Suddenly (in fact, after running the lindows 4.0 demo cdrom), XP pro loads
> and runs VERY slowly. The only other symptom is the fact the hard drive
> light, instead of flickering when it starts up, stays continuously red.
> 
> XP has the HPFS/NTFS file system.
> 
> My suspicion is that the hard drive, which is an old cast off, is
> the problem.  Are there any tools in linux  I could use to check out
> this drive?
> 
> Are there any easy ways just to clone the "failing" hard drive.  
> 
> Thanks,

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