On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:16 AM Lily White <lilywhite2...@outlook.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a NTFS flashdrive. When I plug it into Fedora, it reads and > writes normally. However, when plugged into M$ Windows, only an icon and > a not-so-informative ``Removable media'' is shown. > > When I try to reformat it with Windows Disk Management, another > not-so-informative error ``Windows cannot format the given drive'' is > shown. > > I then filled it with zeroes with a Chinese partition management program > (AoMei, if that is useful) and recreated NTFS on it. It worked on > Windows. However, after a plug into Fedora it was ruined again: Fedora > recognized it, but Windows did not. > > Results of `sudo fsck /dev/sdc1': > > ------------------------------------- > fsck from util-linux 2.37.4 > Unsupported: replay_log() > Unsupported: check_volume() > Checking 256 MFT records. > Unsupported cases found. > ntfsck was unable to run properly. > ------------------------------------- > > So I ran `ntfsfix` on it and the following output was produced: > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Mounting volume... OK > Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully. > Checking the alternate boot sector... OK > NTFS volume version is 3.1. > NTFS partition /dev/sdc1 was processed successfully. > -------------------------------------------------------- > > A rerun of fsck produced identical output. > > *Note that the drive was usable on Fedora throughout the process.* > > Any idea what's behind this? > ------ > From LilyWhite with love > I haven't done this for a while, but I used to have a similar problem with Win7 and FAT drives; however, Win7 would always offer to repair the drive and it would be fine again. It happened only on one series of promotional flash drives I had bought in bulk, i.e. they were all the same type and probably from the same production run. So I don't have real suggestions, but a question: does this happen on all NTFS flashdrives, or just this one? Maybe it's the drive itself.
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