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can you chkdsk from a windows vm? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by juli@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I need to repair a drive with chkdsk and don't have access to windows

edit: hopefully, I only have to do it once. I will search for someone with a real windows machine. It's not worth the trouble =(

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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes. But since we're in Linux land, you may be able to replay the journal and un-dirty your disk by mounting with the ntfs3 driver listed here https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/ntfs3.html, or you could try using 'ntfsfix -d [your device]' from the ntfs-3g package to clear the journal and the dirty bit, although whatever the last operation was on the filesystem may be left in an incomplete state since the journal is not replayed.

I haven't done it in a while, but with virtualbox I have used direct disk access by creating a special vmdk with vboxmanage to give a VM access to real partitions.