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

From:	Oscarvarium (OZGUR)	22 Jul 2010 18:46
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Right, I'd better actually try to fix this instead of just pretending it doesn't exist...

I might/should be able to get hold of an XP CD and boot from that. I /think/ that both my borked install and the disc are XP Home but if they're not, what will happen? Will an XP Home disc repair an installed XP Pro?

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From:	Dave!!	22 Jul 2010 19:33
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No, no it won't. And to make it even more annoying, you'll need a disk which matches the type of license as well. For Home, you've got OEM and Retail disks. For Pro, you've got OEM, Retail and Volume License disks. ---

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From:	Oscarvarium (OZGUR)	22 Jul 2010 19:54
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Hrmm... :/ If I boot from the disc (assuming that all works fine), and the editions don't match, will I be able to install a new copy of Windows, retrieve data and then delete the old one? Also, how much space does your common or garden XP Home take up. 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.

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	22 Jul 2010 22:59
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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:	koswix	22 Jul 2010 23:03
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Are you a mental? GIVE ME MEAT! :@ msg:37418.1

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	22 Jul 2010 23:03
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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 00:06
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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. ---- What can't social media do? Make coffee Tie its shoes Spell

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From:	Oscarvarium (OZGUR)	23 Jul 2010 00:34
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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:	Manthorp	23 Jul 2010 05:32
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Seems a bit harsh. Especially coming from you. "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951 www.manthorp.co.uk

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From:	koswix	23 Jul 2010 07:29
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:C GIVE ME MEAT! :@ msg:37418.1

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From:	Matt	23 Jul 2010 08:50
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quote: MacRumours Forums 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:	koswix	23 Jul 2010 09:03
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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 :$ GIVE ME MEAT! :@ msg:37418.1

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	23 Jul 2010 09:45
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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 10:43
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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 09:09
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ntfs-3g oh. this is really fucking old. more coffee. :-$ “China Is Breeding Giant Pigs the Size of Polar Bears”

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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	23 Oct 2019 18:24
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From:	gracia (GRACEINC)	30 Oct 2019 10:19
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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 15:48
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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. “Having a super time riding my favourite pony Satan.”

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