So what happened is I was creating a partition on my HDD (main one, no external ones) that could be accessed from both Windows and Ubuntu, one I could store files I would use on both in. I had empty space on the Windows partition so I shrunk that to the minimum and then created a partition with what was empty. That went off without a hitch. Now, when I try to mount my Windows partition, this is what I get:
Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /media/ubuntu/Toshiba Satellite A105 S4304: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=999,gid=999,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/ sda1" "/media/ubuntu/Toshiba Satellite A105 S4304"' exited with non-zero exit status 13: Failed to load runlist for $MFT/$DATA. highest_vcn = 0x7894, last_vcn - 1 = 0x78ef Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation for more details.
I looked around and found I should try running this command : sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda1
but I got this:
Mounting volume... Failed to load runlist for $MFT/$DATA. highest_vcn = 0x7894, last_vcn - 1 = 0x78ef Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error FAILED Attempting to correct errors... Failed to load runlist for $MFT/$DATA. highest_vcn = 0x7894, last_vcn - 1 = 0x78ef Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error FAILED Failed to startup volume: Input/output error Checking for self-located MFT segment... OK Failed to load runlist for $MFT/$DATA. highest_vcn = 0x7894, last_vcn - 1 = 0x78ef Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk.
EDIT: 9/2/2013 Adding sudo fdisk -l
info:
Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders, total 195371568 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x5f425f42 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 54028287 27014112+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 54028288 117415935 31693824 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 117417982 195371007 38976513 5 Extended /dev/sda5 193296384 195371007 1037312 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 117417984 193296383 37939200 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order
What should I do? I don't want to shut down in case it will cause problems. I know that moving partitions can cause problems (accidently deleted GRUB once by simply re-formatting the Ubuntu partition...oops :P), but I didn't think this would. I have the Windows XP disk somewhere, but I'm not totally sure where, I could try and find it. Should I use Rescatux?
Help!