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angryInch
Hope somebody can help me with a strange problem I am having.
At the moment the problem is that Windows XP (I have a dual boot and
this is the only one I can access) mounts one of my hard drives as read
only. I believe this is down to the fact that there seams to be a
problem with the MFT on the Vista partition of this hard drive.
I'll go through how I got to this situation!
I used Acronis Disk Commander to create some free space on my hard
drive so that I could install Fedora Core 8. However during the
installation of Fedora disk druid was not able to use the hard space,
though this was strange I just accepted it and booted back up to windows
and used Disk Commander to create a 40Gb extfs partition (mounted as
‘/’) and a 4Gb Linux swap partition. When I again tried to install Linux
(selecting the’/’ partition in disk druid) it warned me that there was a
problem with the drive and it would have to erase all data. Stupidly I
said Yes (it was late and night and I should have been paying more
attention), and immediately realising the stupidity of what I had done I
rebooted. Lo and behold my partitions were gone.
Handily I had a version of Ultimate boot disk at hand, so using
TestDisk I recovered the partition table, wrote the recovered table to
the MBR and then rebuilt the corrupted BootSector on my Vista drive (the
first and active partition on the drive I had formatted). However it
still would not boot up (even though the MBR was fine, as it got to the
screen offering me the choice of XP or Vista). I then tried to repair it
with the Vista install disk, but that failed.
Luckily my XP partition is on a different drive, so I altered the bois
so that the XP drive was the fist drive to be booted and managed to
successfully boot into XP. Now here is were I have a problem that I
can’t seam to fix.
XP seams to be mounting the problem drive (the one I recovered the
partition table on) in read-only (write-protected) mode, and none of the
NTFS partition are showing up in ‘My Computer’ I then went to My
Computer->Manage->Disk Management and the problem drive and all its
partitions are listed there (all as healthy) as the screen shot below
shows.
However, when I assign a drive letter to any of the drive’s, although
it assigns it properly I still cannot see the drive in ‘My Computer’,
however I can access the drives contents by right-clicking on them in
‘Disk Management’ and clicking open, I can also access them through
Command Prompt. I think the reason that I cannot access them through ‘My
Computer’ is because it is mounted read-only the assigned drive letters
won’t ‘stick’.
My next idea was to do a chkdsk, the result of which was:
> I:\>chkdsk
> The type of the file system is NTFS.
> Volume label is Windows Vista.
>
> WARNING! F parameter not specified.
> Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
>
> CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
> File verification completed.
> CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
> Index verification completed.
> CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
> Security descriptor verification completed.
> CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
> Usn Journal verification completed.
> Correcting errors in the uppercase file.
> CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
> master file table (MFT) bitmap.
> Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
> Windows found problems with the file system.
> Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
>
> 31138615 KB total disk space.
> 29424556 KB in 137010 files.
> 67488 KB in 20224 indexes.
> 0 KB in bad sectors.
> 265343 KB in use by the system.
> 65536 KB occupied by the log file.
> 1381228 KB available on disk.
>
> 4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
> 7784653 total allocation units on disk.
> 345307 allocation units available on disk.Great, so that’s the problem, then I ran a ‘chkdsk /F’, the result of
which was
> I:\>chkdsk /F
> The type of the file system is NTFS.
> Cannot lock current drive.
> Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write
> protected.Now, I know that chkdsk /F cannot run while the drive is mounted by
windows, however if I reboot and use the Windows XP disk to boot to a
repair command prompt I cannot access this drive as it has no drive
letter assigned to it (is there a way to manually mount a drive from
here?).
I have tried assigning drive letters to the drive using Acronis Disk
Commander, but as XP mount the drive read-only again the drive letters
do not stick. Also I have rebuilt the BootSector and checked the MFT
using TestDisk again, but the problem still remains.
This problem drive also contains 3 other partition (primary) which
contain a lot of important information and also contains my ‘Program
Files’ directory (I install all my programs to this drive instead of the
usual C:/Program Files), so I really want to get it usable again. Since
I can see and access all the partitions and information using ‘Disk
Management’ I know that all the data is OK, I just need windows to stop
mounting it read only. I think this read-only problem is the reason that
the Vista Start-up Repair failed as it probably mounted the drive
read-only as well.
Can anyone help me get this drive either mounted read/write in a repair
console so that I can run chkdsk /F, or else mounted read/write in XP. I
don’t mind losing my Vista partition (although as it seams to be
structurally intact it should be fine to boot to still), but as I don’t
have space to copy all the data on this drive to (it about 700Gb of
data) I really need to make this disk read/write so I can use the data
(epically my ‘Program Files’ directory).
I had a good look around the web but nothing helped….so any help here
would be seriously appreciated.
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angryInch
At the moment the problem is that Windows XP (I have a dual boot and
this is the only one I can access) mounts one of my hard drives as read
only. I believe this is down to the fact that there seams to be a
problem with the MFT on the Vista partition of this hard drive.
I'll go through how I got to this situation!
I used Acronis Disk Commander to create some free space on my hard
drive so that I could install Fedora Core 8. However during the
installation of Fedora disk druid was not able to use the hard space,
though this was strange I just accepted it and booted back up to windows
and used Disk Commander to create a 40Gb extfs partition (mounted as
‘/’) and a 4Gb Linux swap partition. When I again tried to install Linux
(selecting the’/’ partition in disk druid) it warned me that there was a
problem with the drive and it would have to erase all data. Stupidly I
said Yes (it was late and night and I should have been paying more
attention), and immediately realising the stupidity of what I had done I
rebooted. Lo and behold my partitions were gone.
Handily I had a version of Ultimate boot disk at hand, so using
TestDisk I recovered the partition table, wrote the recovered table to
the MBR and then rebuilt the corrupted BootSector on my Vista drive (the
first and active partition on the drive I had formatted). However it
still would not boot up (even though the MBR was fine, as it got to the
screen offering me the choice of XP or Vista). I then tried to repair it
with the Vista install disk, but that failed.
Luckily my XP partition is on a different drive, so I altered the bois
so that the XP drive was the fist drive to be booted and managed to
successfully boot into XP. Now here is were I have a problem that I
can’t seam to fix.
XP seams to be mounting the problem drive (the one I recovered the
partition table on) in read-only (write-protected) mode, and none of the
NTFS partition are showing up in ‘My Computer’ I then went to My
Computer->Manage->Disk Management and the problem drive and all its
partitions are listed there (all as healthy) as the screen shot below
shows.
However, when I assign a drive letter to any of the drive’s, although
it assigns it properly I still cannot see the drive in ‘My Computer’,
however I can access the drives contents by right-clicking on them in
‘Disk Management’ and clicking open, I can also access them through
Command Prompt. I think the reason that I cannot access them through ‘My
Computer’ is because it is mounted read-only the assigned drive letters
won’t ‘stick’.
My next idea was to do a chkdsk, the result of which was:
> I:\>chkdsk
> The type of the file system is NTFS.
> Volume label is Windows Vista.
>
> WARNING! F parameter not specified.
> Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
>
> CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
> File verification completed.
> CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
> Index verification completed.
> CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
> Security descriptor verification completed.
> CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
> Usn Journal verification completed.
> Correcting errors in the uppercase file.
> CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
> master file table (MFT) bitmap.
> Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
> Windows found problems with the file system.
> Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
>
> 31138615 KB total disk space.
> 29424556 KB in 137010 files.
> 67488 KB in 20224 indexes.
> 0 KB in bad sectors.
> 265343 KB in use by the system.
> 65536 KB occupied by the log file.
> 1381228 KB available on disk.
>
> 4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
> 7784653 total allocation units on disk.
> 345307 allocation units available on disk.Great, so that’s the problem, then I ran a ‘chkdsk /F’, the result of
which was
> I:\>chkdsk /F
> The type of the file system is NTFS.
> Cannot lock current drive.
> Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write
> protected.Now, I know that chkdsk /F cannot run while the drive is mounted by
windows, however if I reboot and use the Windows XP disk to boot to a
repair command prompt I cannot access this drive as it has no drive
letter assigned to it (is there a way to manually mount a drive from
here?).
I have tried assigning drive letters to the drive using Acronis Disk
Commander, but as XP mount the drive read-only again the drive letters
do not stick. Also I have rebuilt the BootSector and checked the MFT
using TestDisk again, but the problem still remains.
This problem drive also contains 3 other partition (primary) which
contain a lot of important information and also contains my ‘Program
Files’ directory (I install all my programs to this drive instead of the
usual C:/Program Files), so I really want to get it usable again. Since
I can see and access all the partitions and information using ‘Disk
Management’ I know that all the data is OK, I just need windows to stop
mounting it read only. I think this read-only problem is the reason that
the Vista Start-up Repair failed as it probably mounted the drive
read-only as well.
Can anyone help me get this drive either mounted read/write in a repair
console so that I can run chkdsk /F, or else mounted read/write in XP. I
don’t mind losing my Vista partition (although as it seams to be
structurally intact it should be fine to boot to still), but as I don’t
have space to copy all the data on this drive to (it about 700Gb of
data) I really need to make this disk read/write so I can use the data
(epically my ‘Program Files’ directory).
I had a good look around the web but nothing helped….so any help here
would be seriously appreciated.
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