How to chkdsk MS Win partition from Ubuntu?

[pointyblue]

My sister's Win 2k pc crashed and I've installed Ubuntu 7.10 in stead. (And it actually runs much faster even though it's a pretty old computer!! \\:D/ )

It's a dual boot system with the Win 2k not working. The reason I haven't deleted Win 2k yet is that I hope to make it work so I can gain access to the old emails + address book from Outlook Express and I also need to gain access to some contacts she stored in Outlook.

When I try to boot Win 2k from Grub it blue screens and tells me that I have to chkdisk /F the hard disk to fix a problem. As I have no windows system disk or installation CD that seems to be impossible.

Do any of you know if I can somehow chkdsk /F the drive from inside Ubuntu? I believe there's a fsck command or something but don't know how to use it...

[lswest]

chkdsk is not the same as fsck, i wouldn't run fsck on an ntfs windows partition...only possible option is to use a windows install disk and repair the partition...

[pointyblue]

Yeah well ... the only problem is I haven't got a windows install disk... :confused:

Anyone else..?

[lswest]

this (http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-77799.html) might help

or, supposedly,
fsck -t ntfs /dev/hda might work, but i can promise anything, might make it worse. -be sure to unmount the drive before you run fsck on it-

seems like i was wrong about fsck :P guess it's come a ways since i tried to recover an ntfs partition with it a couple of years back.

[terminal]

sudo apt-get install ntfstools

then u can do ntfschk /dev/sdaX
I wont bank on it to fix all problems though .