I'm running a dual-boot with Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows XP with GRUB. There are a few corrupt files on my XP filesystem, so I scheduled Windows to run Chkdsk on restart. I restart, select Windows in GRUB, and the screen shows saying it will run Chkdsk, press any button to cancel. Without me touching any buttons, it cancels it.
View 5 RepliesI have been dual booting Windows 7 with Fedora for a while (using GRUB, with Fedora as the primary OS) but am running into some problems now.
When in Windows, I was notified that a folder was corrupt and was advised to run chkdsk. So I ran this in the command prompt:
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chkdsk c: /F
which would run on the next reboot. When I restarted the computer, this didn't run.
I believe this problem has to do with the current MBR running GRUB, and not Windows immediately. In Windows, if I go to:Advanced system settings->Advanded->Startup and Recovery->Settings, the default OS is blank with no options available. Also, when running msconfig, under the boot tab, no OS is available.
I backed up the MBR in Linux and then tried to use the Windows recovery disk to do a repair, but no OS was found here as well.
If it helps any, here's what I get when I run 'fdisk -l'
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Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Dual booting Mint 8 and Windows 7. Windows is reporting a file system error. I go into properties and check for errors, but since it's in use it asks me to reboot. I do, and grub comes up. I select windows and it just takes me to windows without checking the file system.
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echo "savedefault --default=2 --once" | grub --batch; sudo reboot
should work. Is there any way to achieve it from windows?
This question made me wonder: "Can you run chkdsk using a Windows boot CD on a Linux NTFS partition?" Would it cause more problems, or fix them as in Windows?
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when i booted windows, it ran a chksdk, like it should, and in my computer it said that it had been shrunk (because the pie graph showed a capacity of around 70GB) When i go into windows disk management it says no unallocated space, just one big partition (and a 8gb recovery partition) this is the same with GParted on puppy linux, GParted on fedora 10 (live cd) says there is no drives I can mount or unmount and same error on partition logic... in EASUS partition manager i get told that there is no unallocated space, in the fedora installer there is only /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. Does anybody know.. how to install fedora on this partition, or get rid of the partition and repartition it another way. when i click on the option to remove all linux partitions and create default format, it errors and says it cannot make another primary partition, then says there is no room for /boot. and i can not proceed.
For system calls, is blocking or non-blocking default in C? Simple question, just am not seeing the answer super quickly.
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#define DEBUG
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string.h>
[code]...
My computer has taken a dive and it will not boot up. I have reasons to believe that it is the hard drive. I would like to run CHKDSK but I cannot get the computer to boot up into Windows. My question is this: Is there a way to run CHKDSK from Ubuntu? I can boot into UBuntu using a USB and I can mount and see the hard drive contents (and access them). I was wondering if there is any way I can get chkdsk/r to run and see what happens. (Anyway I can get it to run inside or outside of Ubuntu)
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have Ubuntu installed across an 8gb internal hd and a 32 Gb sd cardwhen I use to boot in often Ubuntu would do a chkdsk. Which i didn't worry about it to much as because i figured it was just the sd card that was causing this. Last week I was trying to fix sleep/hibernate[URL]unfortunately I didn't realize it was an old guide. (was the top google link for my search)so now when I boot up my machine it does a chkdsk then its switches to a black screen/terminal scree with an solid (as in not blinking like a prompt cursor) underscore in the top left corner.It just sits thereeventually I hit the power button see the ubuntu splash screen, then the laptop powers offI hit the power button
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View 1 Replies View RelatedWell about a week ago my computer acted a bit funny and upon attempting a reboot I hit grub error 17, and really haven't been able to make it past it. A had my original OS on it and get some files off and backed up at least. Backing up, I've only used a single OS of Hardy Heron. I don't understand why I'm being affected by this error when all I have is two harddrives that are used as unbroken partitions. Best advice I've used is to use a live disk, however the one I've currently got is for Lucid Lynx. I'm not sure whether I need to go and get the old version of a live disc since all I want are my files.
I'm content to update to the newer version (though part of me wants to wait for the next one since it's only a few weeks away.) If I could get my system running as it was that'd be great too. I believe the harddrives are fine since both are recognized in bios, just when running the live disk it asks if it wanted to install it or try it first. When running in the trial of Lucid, I can see the second harddrive and access files as I could on Hardy, but I can't see the main one. I really don't know what to do and am considering just starting over and cursing the loss of the data I want to preserve.
Whenever I power on my Xubuntu machine, GRUB does not load until I reboot. Once the system is running, I can reboot back into Xubuntu but if I power down GRUB does not seem to load. I've got the system to power on at 8am every morning but the fact that I have to reboot it is really annoying me.
Update:
Reinstalled GRUB to the master boot record of my first hard disk and it solved everything. I had to follow the second part of this guide to get it to work:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351
i have dual boot computer win7 and 10.04 ubuntu. i installed the ubuntu inside the win7
now i have problem that GRUB prompt out every reboot. i could get into system by type this(but GRUB come back after reboot)
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set root=(hd0,1)
loopback loop0 /ubuntu/disks/root.disk
set root=(loop0)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img
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My PC has been blue screening since yesterday, and I can't boot into Windows, which the rest of my family needs. I tried to repair from this live CD, but to no avail. If I had a XP Install disk, I'd be OK, but... I don't. I've read around, and it seems that I just need to run chkdsk, but that doesn't run under Linux, and there is no program to do the same under Linux. install and run chkdsk from a USB flash drive?
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recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,2)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7b4afbe0-28fe-4403-bd86-c4364bf10f98
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic root=UUID=7b4afbe0-28fe-4403-bd86-c4364bf10f98 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic
Installed 10.04 on my daughters laptop from within windows Vista. All went OK but I had two boot loaders, i.e. turn on laptop and I would get the Windows loader asking if I want to boot in to windows or Ubuntu. Upon selecting ubuntu I would get the standard grub loader that I have on my PC. Did an update a few mins ago and it asked me to update grub which I did and as there was only one disk showing clicked forward. Now on reboot I have grub rescue prompt, no such device. Hard drive is a single 80 gig drive with windows on one partition and ubuntu in another. Have the live cd so can boot from that I guess. What do I do next?
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After "fdisk -l",
I checked in /boot/grub and there is no menu.lst to modify. how I can get back my windows option in my grub menu ?