Re: [Nolug] The worst fix ever

Wait wait... did Ron just top post?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

>
> Yeah, with all the "major rewrite" that was Vista, they really should have
> made sure that chkdsk actually checked disks...
>
> On 2010-01-05 17:38, Chris Jones wrote:
>
>> Lol yes, I've worked in those environments. I don't care though. Chkdsk
>> is how old now? Fix the damn thing already! LOL
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
>> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:52:00 To: <nolug@nolug.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Nolug] The worst fix ever
>>
>>
>> You don't know very much about corporate change control, prioritization,
>> QA, etc, etc, etc.
>>
>>
>> On 2010-01-05 16:05, Techmaster wrote:
>>
>>> Nope, it affects Windows XP as well. The sad part is it probably took
>>> longer to make that web page with that answer on it, than it would
>>> have taken to just patch the source of chkdsk and recompile it.
>>>
>>> I just ran into this exact issue, which is how I found MS's proposed
>>> solution. I instead booted up an Ubuntu Live CD and deleted the files
>>> on the first try. :) Kind of sad that Linux now does NTFS better
>>> than Windows does it. For the longest time, NTFS was read-only in
>>> Linux.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2010-01-05 15:24, Techmaster wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246026
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anybody else see the problem with this? Some unimportant files
>>>>> get corrupted, but the fix is to backup, format, and restore
>>>>> everything but the corrupted files? LOL
>>>>>
>>>> To me, that seems a perfectly rational solution. After all, what should
>>>> a
>>>> Linux user do if the inode table gets corrupted.
>>>>
>>>> The *real* stupidity is:
>>>> NTFS supports case-sensitive (POSIX) file names, but Chkdsk does
>>>> not check file names in case-sensitive mode.
>>>>
>>>> Since this only affects versions up to Win2k, they apparently fixed
>>>> chkdsk
>>>> for XP.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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