external NTFS drive won't mount to windows after ubuntu

[zero777zero]

I'm dual booting hardy heron and vista. i've used my seagate NTFS external hard drive for several months on Vista. after using it for about a week on ubuntu it will no longer work with vista, vista wants to "format" it. i unmount whenever i shut it off and it still works fine with ubuntu. now how do i get it to work with vista without reformatting?

[PmDematagoda]

Try and run ntfsfix on the drive by installing ntfsprogs with:-

sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

and then:-

sudo ntfsfix /location/of/drive

then see if the drive now works properly.

[matt$2]

Your description is very hard to follow.
An NTFS drive doesn't 'MOUNT TO WINDOWS'.

You used your seagate NTFS external hard drive on vista, or
you used vista on your seagate NTFS external hard drive?

it still works fine with ubuntu, but how do you get it to work with vista without reformatting??? Is that without vista reformatting the instance of ubuntu, or the other way around??

Clear concise meaningful text would help alot.

I have some ideas, but they may have nothing to do with what you're trying to ask about.

[Daelyn]

I'm dual booting hardy heron and vista. i've used my seagate NTFS external hard drive for several months on Vista. after using it for about a week on ubuntu it will no longer work with vista, vista wants to "format" it. i unmount whenever i shut it off and it still works fine with ubuntu. now how do i get it to work with vista without reformatting?

Apart from the great tip of running the ntfsfix program from ubuntu;
~ What happens if you try running a check disk on it in vista?
~ If you go in to Control panel / admin tools / computer management / disk manager. Is it listed in there as a recognized partition etc?

[Daelyn]

Your description is very hard to follow.
An NTFS drive doesn't 'MOUNT TO WINDOWS'.

You used your seagate NTFS external hard drive on vista, or
you used vista on your seagate NTFS external hard drive?

it still works fine with ubuntu, but how do you get it to work with vista without reformatting??? Is that without vista reformatting the instance of ubuntu, or the other way around??

Clear concise meaningful text would help alot.

I have some ideas, but they may have nothing to do with what you're trying to ask about.

I saw no problem understanding what he wrote. And, I can't see him using Vista on a external HDD very easily. I'm sure this ain't the case

[matt$2]

I saw no problem understanding what he wrote. And, I can't see him using Vista on a external HDD very easily. I'm sure this ain't the case


Good you can speak cryptic. I can't

[PmDematagoda]

This is meant to be a support thread, so let's try and keep it that way without commenting about the style in which people post.

[zero777zero]

thanks for the responses, no my external drive DOES NOT have an OS on it nor is it partitioned in anyway.

PmDematagoda, if i run that code will it have any risk of losing data on my hard drives?

and just in case i wasnt clear, the NTFS drive reads/writes fine in ubuntu, but once i unmounth and go back to Vista, it will not work with vista.

[matt$2]

ok Now I get it. The ntfs partition on the external hard drive can't be mounted by Windows after having been mounted and unmounted by ubuntu.

Now I'm at a disadvantage by not having used these ntf3g tools at all yet. I doubt hugely if you'll damage or lose data, but I haven't tried it.

How about saving the content of the partition not only to be safe but to then format your ntfs partition to fat32. Then return it to the newly formatted fat32 partition. Then definitely no problems.

I suspect your going to tell me it's a 500 Gig hard drive or partition size and it's too big to do. it is a way around it though.

[PmDematagoda]

PmDematagoda, if i run that code will it have any risk of losing data on my hard drives?

There shouldn't be any risk of that.