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Scanning a Windows drive from OS X (-me-do)

From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)22 Jul 2010 23:59
To: Oscarvarium (OZGUR) 24 of 40
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>I'm currently at about 1GB free so space will need to be made no matter what, just wondering how much I should budget for.

 

I'm thinking you might be borked right there, and you may as well salvage whatever data and do a clean reinstall. On a bigger disk. For xp pro I'd budget minimum 10G, and maybe 20-30G if you're putting all your apps, games etc on there as well.

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From: koswix23 Jul 2010 00:03
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 25 of 40
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Are you a mental?
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From: ANT_THOMAS23 Jul 2010 00:03
To: Oscarvarium (OZGUR) 26 of 40
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To carry on from what Smitthy has said, you'll probably need more than 1GB free but can't you just copy all the stuff you want/need to the OSX partition (if there's enough space) and just start from fresh on the XP partition? Or something like that, maybe use an external hard drive if you have or can get hold of one!
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From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)23 Jul 2010 01:06
To: ANT_THOMAS 27 of 40
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It could even be a swap space/virtual memory issue (coupled with disk fragmentation), & if he freed up another couple of gigs, depending on how much physical memory is in the machine, it might become bootable again.
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From: Oscarvarium (OZGUR)23 Jul 2010 01:34
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Unfortunately when I (got my flatmate to) set up Boot Camp I didn't envision using it very often so I only put aside 30 of my 150 Gubs. I could quite easily transfer it to OS X partition, my PC or external drive but I'd worry about losing setup stuff because that's the kind of thing I worry about.
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From: Manthorp23 Jul 2010 06:32
To: koswix 29 of 40
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Seems a bit harsh. Especially coming from you.
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From: koswix23 Jul 2010 08:29
To: Manthorp 30 of 40
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:C
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From: Matt23 Jul 2010 09:50
To: Oscarvarium (OZGUR) 31 of 40
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Funny you mention this. I used a tool called Winclone (a Mac app designed for cloning Windows partitions and restoring them) to perform exactly this procedure (increase Boot Camp partition size without reinstalling Windows). You can't do it in Disk Utility, but it's really not that hard.

1. Convert your Windows partition to NTFS, if it isn't already
2. Clone the partition (with Winclone) to an external drive
3. Using Boot Camp Assistant, delete the old Windows partition
4. Relaunch it and create a new, larger partition
5. Cancel the install when prompted (choose Quit and Install Later)
6. Restore the clone you made earlier to the new, larger partition


Then find out which edition and license of Windows you have and perform a repair install. Huzzah.
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From: koswix23 Jul 2010 10:03
To: Matt 32 of 40
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'ang on, if it's home he can't use NTFS, can he?

EDIT: Hmm, apparently he can. Must have been thinking about encryption :$
EDITED: 23 Jul 2010 10:17 by KOSWIX
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From: ANT_THOMAS23 Jul 2010 10:45
To: Oscarvarium (OZGUR) 33 of 40
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So what you're saying is you really don't want to start from scratch with a fresh XP install?
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From: Oscarvarium (OZGUR)23 Jul 2010 11:43
To: ANT_THOMAS 34 of 40
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Well I'd rather not, but if it's the only way then I'll go for it. I might use the WinClone thing or just copy all my stuff over to my PC and install a fresh Windows.

 

Either way, I'm probably going to do it slowly. I have the lazies.

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From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)21 Oct 2019 10:09
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ntfs-3g

oh. this is really fucking old. more coffee.  :-$
EDITED: 21 Oct 2019 13:58 by DSMITHHFX
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From: william (WILLIAMA)23 Oct 2019 19:24
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The tension is palpable. 
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From: gracia (GRACEINC)30 Oct 2019 11:19
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 39 of 40
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As far i remember its chkdsk /? from CMD and chkdsk /f to fix file system information errors; or chkdsk /r for the disk repair....
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From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)30 Oct 2019 16:48
To: gracia (GRACEINC) 40 of 40
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I've got a printout of the instructions buried somewhere. Haven't needed to use it since I switched to Windows 7. I use ntfs-3g all the time to mount ntfs partitions on linux, not for running fs checks though.
EDITED: 30 Oct 2019 16:49 by DSMITHHFX
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