Scanning a Windows drive from OS X (-me-do)

From: Matt23 Jul 2010 09:50
To: Oscarvarium (OZGUR) 31 of 40
Funny you mention this. I used a tool called Winclone (a Mac app designed for cloning Windows partitions and restoring them) to perform exactly this procedure (increase Boot Camp partition size without reinstalling Windows). You can't do it in Disk Utility, but it's really not that hard.

1. Convert your Windows partition to NTFS, if it isn't already
2. Clone the partition (with Winclone) to an external drive
3. Using Boot Camp Assistant, delete the old Windows partition
4. Relaunch it and create a new, larger partition
5. Cancel the install when prompted (choose Quit and Install Later)
6. Restore the clone you made earlier to the new, larger partition


Then find out which edition and license of Windows you have and perform a repair install. Huzzah.
From: koswix23 Jul 2010 10:03
To: Matt 32 of 40
'ang on, if it's home he can't use NTFS, can he?

EDIT: Hmm, apparently he can. Must have been thinking about encryption :$
EDITED: 23 Jul 2010 10:17 by KOSWIX
From: ANT_THOMAS23 Jul 2010 10:45
To: Oscarvarium (OZGUR) 33 of 40
So what you're saying is you really don't want to start from scratch with a fresh XP install?
From: Oscarvarium (OZGUR)23 Jul 2010 11:43
To: ANT_THOMAS 34 of 40

Well I'd rather not, but if it's the only way then I'll go for it. I might use the WinClone thing or just copy all my stuff over to my PC and install a fresh Windows.

 

Either way, I'm probably going to do it slowly. I have the lazies.

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From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)21 Oct 2019 10:09
To: ALL36 of 40
ntfs-3g

oh. this is really fucking old. more coffee.  :-$
EDITED: 21 Oct 2019 13:58 by DSMITHHFX
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From: william (WILLIAMA)23 Oct 2019 19:24
To: ALL38 of 40
The tension is palpable. 
From: gracia (GRACEINC)30 Oct 2019 11:19
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 39 of 40
As far i remember its chkdsk /? from CMD and chkdsk /f to fix file system information errors; or chkdsk /r for the disk repair....
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)30 Oct 2019 16:48
To: gracia (GRACEINC) 40 of 40
I've got a printout of the instructions buried somewhere. Haven't needed to use it since I switched to Windows 7. I use ntfs-3g all the time to mount ntfs partitions on linux, not for running fs checks though.
EDITED: 30 Oct 2019 16:49 by DSMITHHFX