Continued Run chkdsk /r

Asked by Wondering

Clean install of 9.10 (no upgrade) Gets to screen where it checks the installation and then stops with the dialog box "run chkdsk /r" and try again or para phrase.

I have gone through the chkdsk /r & /f twice for all disks and partitions and still continue to recieve same error dialog box.

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A. Denton (aquina) said :
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Is it an NTFS volume you're talking about? I'm asking because "chkdsk /r" (with a slash for the parameter) sounds like a MS Windows specific command. In case you receive that message when booting windows there's probably something wrong with your NTFS drive. That's why I cannot recommend multiboot environments to anyone.

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Wondering (nwpretards) said :
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This a NTFS.
I have 2 Drives. C: Drive is NTFS 40 GB D: & E: is a 320 GB drive partitioned NTFS.

Would it be better for me to uninstall and change the C drive to FAT?

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Best A. Denton (aquina) said :
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Yes that would indeed help you out since the internal fs dependant check youldn't always show up with corruption errors. Nevertheless I think you'd rather lay out your Ubuntu installation on a seperate drive and make sure it doesn't mount the NTFS drives. Also make sure the ext3/ext4 volume of Ubuntu is out of windows view. Of course Windows can't access 'em by default but on syse special configurations an unknown volume may cause confusion.

Try to use seperate harddraives and set up a multiboot environment (I wouldn't do that) or run Ubuntu in a virtual machine. Then it's up to the OS (Ubuntu) to detect everything and run in its env. Windows won't complain anymore as well, since the VM drive is simply a file on an NTFS drive and thus totally transparent. ;-)

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Wondering (nwpretards) said :
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Thanks Aquina, that solved my question.