Re: Corrupted

Rajko M. wrote:
Claude Hopper (11) 5. ? wrote:

I still have a problem with SUSE corrupting my NTFS partitions.
Different computer, different harddrive same problem. After installing
W2K on the first partition of 80 gig I install OpenSuse 11.0 64 bit live
CD which creates a swap, 20 gig root and 200 gig home, no problem.
Writes grub and creates a menu for windows and linux. Go to boot W2k and
blue screen, files corrupted. I even restored the boot sector with Yast
and W2k still don't boot. Why is Suse screwing with my NTFS partitions?
I can only solve it with using separate harddrives for each.

After openSUSE installation your NTFS is marked as dirty [1] to provoke file
system check. It is not real corruption, it is just one more measure to
make sure that windows knows new size of NTFS.

You should just let windows chkdsk to finish the check. If you reboot in
this moment by turning computer off than NTFS will be really dirty and
windows will attempt to run chkdsk (again and again) until you let check
finish and after that windows will continue to boot as usually, unless your
intervention in the middle of filesystem check made some real damage, which
is with NTFS not easy to happen, but it is not impossible.

[1] 'dirty' means that file system is not cleanly unmounted and file system
check is required. Yes, windows does that too, just it is hidden behind
shutdown screen.

This is interesting. I use a 40 gig drive as master and a 320 gig drive as slave. I loaded W2k on the 40. I made a 100 gig vfat 32 on the first partition of the 320. Then I used Clonezilla and saved the 40 gig ntfs as a partition file on the vfat, then burned it to a dvd for safe keeping.
Then I installed the live CD Opensuse 11.0 RC1 64bit. All is fine, W2k boots, suse boots but.......W2k no longer sees the Vfat32 partition on drive 2, it wants to format it, thinks it's unformated. Now OpenSuSE sees the vfat partition just find and dandy and the back files just fine. So SuSE did something to the Vfat partition the same as it does to the NTFS partition when I load OpenSuSE to the same drive.
Is anybody getting any of this?

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