ntfs corruption with linux?

[SilentDeath]

Hi,
Im using openSUSE 11.1 on two pc's and had some strange problems over the last few days. these are fresh installs, and Im supprised to be having disk problems rather than drivers, which went 100% perfectly (including ati 8.5 drivers )

So my vista install boots ok in safemode. I can set chkdsk and it will reboot in normal mode and have no problems getting to chkdsk, so it gets atleast that far..

BUT If I try to boot normally, it bluescreens with "ntfs.sys" "page fault in non paged area". So I assume its not the ntfs.sys file, as that is used in safemode.

I think some structure on the disk maybe wrong and making it crash? but chkdsk has no errors on a full scan

I notice dolphin has wrote ".dolphin" files everywhere with folder settings etc... but that shouldnt annoy windows?

Also a second thing (fixed) is the win2k bootsector got corrupted on the other pc, when installing grub ** to /boot partition on the other disk**. Putting grub on twice fixed though

Thanks
Mark

[SilentDeath]

Vista will now boot but not repeatedly. It will always bluescreen if the previous boot was not linux.


this is crazy, any ideas?

they are on seperate disks! the two partitions on the vista drive are mounted read only.

[peterb]

But there is still a common boot sector, and I guess you re using Grub as your boot loader. However I am at a loss to explain it as (AFAIK) nothing in the boot process writes to those areas of the disk so there shouldn't be any remnants from the previous boot left behind - at least not there.

[directhex]

Do you have BitLocker installed?

[SilentDeath]

Nope I dont have Bitlocker or any encryption. Theres no common bootsector

Heres my fstab

UUID=                swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
UUID=464de31d-fb79-462c-bc92-2314f35ef487 /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
UUID=ec749a30-1fbc-4f3f-9e44-51872afad55c /boot                ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6B200M0_B41CAX4H-part1 /home/kram/S200-2                ntfs-3g    ro,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0007,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500SB-01RFA0_WD-WMANK4358627-part2 /home/kram/IDE0-2    ntfs-3g    ro,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0007,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500SB-01RFA0_WD-WMANK4358627-part1 /home/kram/IDE0-FAT  vfat       uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0007,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6B250S0_B60RTQWH-part2 /home/kram/S250-Backup           ntfs-3g    ro,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0007,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6B250S0_B60RTQWH-part1 /home/kram/S250-Xp               ntfs-3g    ro,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0007,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y160M0_Y41XJYDE-part1 /home/kram/S160-Vista            ntfs-3g    ro,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0007,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y160M0_Y41XJYDE-part2 /home/kram/S160-2                ntfs-3g    ro,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0007,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0

Vista is on ata-Maxtor_6Y160M. that drive has two partitions (vista/backup) vista is set active and other than a repair done by the vista install cd is the original boot sector/mbr.

Grub is on ata-Maxtor_6B200M0, with a /boot, swap, ext3 and a ntfs partition. My grub/menu.lst doesn't (yet) have a line for vista.

I have the vista drive as default in bios, and press ESC and the bios gives me a menu to chose the other disks.


I really don't understand this. I put linux on a completely separate drive to avoid these issues