Archive for December, 2010
NTFS Drive Failure
$MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0).
That was the fatal error I received yesterday while attempting to access media on my main external 500gb hdd. Now I’m running Ubuntu’s Meerkat Manor (10.10) with all the applicable daily updates, I’ve also got VirtualBox running. With that all being said, NTFS is a finicky format type especially in the class of properly mounting and unmounting the drive its formatted to. This error essentially means that you either have a hardware issue resulting somewhere in the drive, or that the drive wasn’t properly unmounted/mounted, and now refuses to mount due to data issues. What we need to fix this is obviously the drive in question, VirtualBox, a windows xp (preferably) machine, and some permissions.
If you don’t have a windows xp machine set up using vbox, I recommend going over to their site (or irc: irc.freenode.net#vbox) and figuring it out. Once its set up, go under the settings for the machine, find the usb section, and add your drives in question. Boot XP and pull up command prompt.
start -> run -> cmd
Type in:
chkdsk /f (drive letter here)
The /f, its important. Its unbelievably important. After you type that in you may be prompted to allow the machine to unmount the drive. It may sound silly, but its necessary to be able to have complete control over the drive. The check will run for a while, depending on the size of the drive and the amount of data occupying drive space. Once thats all done, eject the drive via windows, shut down the windows machine, and viola! Drive should boot right back up in linux!
Launch of TheFoundFaith.net!
I bought the domain a few years in back with the intentions that have long been extinguished. Fortunately for me though, my love of travel and adventures has led me to discover a new use for the domain! Lately I’ve been developing an application called Trips, in which I can add positions on a map using a simple system, then display the positions dynamically on a map using the Google Maps API. So far the system is very basic in its nature, hopefully I’ll be able to expand and make it more universal to my needs. Right now I’m still working out all the kinks, hopefully by the end of the week I’ll be able to add pictures to the map as well as map out all where my favorite places to camp are.