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Old June 17th, 2012, 07:25 PM
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Rescue Windows Hard Disk with Linux.... chkdsk

I have a non booting 2TB disk, that when I removed it from the computer and connected via USB on another windows machine, it said it wanted to format it

I therefore used a bootable FATDOG Linux disk in the computer that won't boot, and after a struggle, finally lists the contents of the non bootable disk

Is there a Linux command similar to CHKDSK that can be attempted without losing files, so that it has a better chance to boot into windows ?

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Old June 21st, 2012, 03:56 AM
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I am not familiar with FATDOG Linux, but if it has NTFSProgs then you can use fsck.ntfs or fsck -t ntfs to check and fix the filesystem of an NTFS (Windows) disk.
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Old June 21st, 2012, 03:23 PM
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What Live CD download would have this ntfs utility

Might try to get hold of it

Also the command to type into Terminal window
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Old June 22nd, 2012, 03:33 PM
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The command is: "fsck.ntfs" or "fsck -t ntfs"

There are many LiveCD's that have NTFSProgs, but I don't know first-hand which ones do. I do know that SystemRescueCD does.
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