[SOLVED] NTFS filesystem damaged? after update

edgar · 2011-05-21 07:38:37

Hi!

I have a pc at home with win 7 and arch linux. I didnt use arch for a
while, but a few days earlier ive logged in and made an update. pacman
-Suy
Everything went fine (as always

After this ive restarted the pc, and tried to start win7. It wrote
that the filesystem must be checked.

The error massages look like this:

file record segment (3011) unreadable.
(a lot of them with increasing number.)

After these messages the program tries to fix the errors it found. Im
writing ,,tries", because the pc always restarts after an "unknown
error" message.

Normally i would suggest it is a physical error of the hdd, but the
timing makes me think the update made something wrong...

The good thing is, that i can skip the check and win7 runs fine,
without any differences.

What do you suggest?

Thanks. :-)

Last edited by edgar (2011-05-23 12:17:11)

Rhiadratech · 2011-05-21 09:57:26

I'd try expressly calling Chkdsk to run a check next boot of win7.

Now, i've not run Windows since XP, so I dont know if you need an administrator level command prompt or not, but the command you'd need is
chkdsk c: /r

Thats check the disk partition c: and recover readable data.
Change the drive letter if that isnt correct for your system.
It will moan it cant cos files are in use, ask if you want it to run when you reboot. The answer is yes.
Then reboot.

Spider.007 · 2011-05-21 13:02:19

Do you mount the NTFS partition from Arch? If not, the update has nothing to do with it. If you do, I still highly doubt this was caused by the updated packages.

edgar · 2011-05-21 18:59:14

Rhiadratech: ive tried that. The result is the same.

Spider.007: it is mounted, a grub update could affect other partitions.

The problem is still unsolved.

stqn · 2011-05-22 17:14:12

I suggest a backup and a badblocks check .

edgar · 2011-05-23 12:12:15

The problem is indeed caused by bad blocks.
But it wasnt that easy to prove that, when ms chkdsk always fails to finish :-)
Ive used "hdd regenerator". I dont what did the program exactly do with the hdd, but after the "regeneration" ms chkdsk was finally able to check the disk and showed a lot a of bad blocks. :-(
So it seems this has nothing to do with arch linux. The timing was just a coincidence..

btw the hdd is a Samsung HD103SJ, 2 months old :S

thx for the responses ;-)

ewaller · 2011-05-23 15:06:32

I would suggest that you double check your backups (sic: plural) to make sure they are current and will work when you need them.

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[SOLVED] NTFS filesystem damaged? after update

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