Ubuntu and Windows Vista problems

[popcorn09]

Hi,

I have a dell inspiron 1420. It was running Windows Vista earlier and
a couple of days back I installed Ubunru 8.04 RC on it. I did the
automatic NTFS resizing since originally there was only one partition
with 140 GB. I made a 20GB partition on which I installed Ubuntu and
the rest remained NTFS with Vista.

The installation went fine, Ubuntu seemed to run fine. It was mounting
NTFS too. I tried downloading some files to the NTFS partition and it
all seemed fine.

Now when I booted into Vista, it gave an error saying that C: needs to
be checked for errors. It progressed fine, booted, etc. Now Vista
randomly crashes say when I am watching a video or downloading a file.
Moreover, the NTFS partition would no longer mount on Ubuntu. It gives
an error saying that cannot mount NTFS partition because the logfile
says that it was not shutdown cleanly. It shows to be still in use...
blah blah.

Can anyone shed light on what is wrong? Has the resizing messed the
partitions? Do I have any recourse except to format, partition, and
reinstall everything?

Please help!

Thanks.


[Edit] This worked after I prefixed a sudo. Sorry for the trouble!

[Pumalite]

I'm not a Windows user, but I understand that if Windows is not closed 'cleanly', all sort of things can happened. As example you can end up with Ubuntu not regognizing your ethernet, etc. I think it has something to do with hibernation in laptops. In Desktops, I don't know.

[arsenic23]

You should be able to mount that ntfs partition if you use '-o force', so it'd look like:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdaX /whereever/you/mount/it -o force

[popcorn09]

You should be able to mount that ntfs partition if you use '-o force', so it'd look like:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdaX /whereever/you/mount/it -o force

I mounted it. Now I read in some other post about ntfsfix. So I try doing -

$ ntfsfix /dev/sda3
Mounting volume... Error opening partition device: Permission denied.
Failed to startup volume: Permission denied.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors... Error opening partition device: Permission denied.
FAILED
Failed to startup volume: Permission denied.
Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk.

This is the NTFS partition. Any idea what is wrong?

Thanks.

[Pumalite]

Run TestDisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download