Since my Windows-system (the system disk) crashed, I had no Windows anymore on my PC. After installing Ubuntu, I could mount my NTFS-partitions, but only in read-only mode. Trying to mount them in read-write mode resulted in errors, because “the NTFS logfile is unclean”. There are tools for Linux that can set a flag in the NTFS-partitions, that will be recognized by Windows so that it will perform a chkdsk on that disk on the next reboot. The only problem was: I have no Windows anymore.<\/p>\n
> Enter VMWare Server.<\/p>\n
I installed VMWare Server, the free edition that can be downloaded from VMWare’s site<\/a> (an “apt-get install xinetd -y” could be necessary). Since I own a legal Windows XP Pro copy, I installed that into a VMWare guest-OS, and started it. Worked great. Powerdown, modify the VMWare configuration to include the physical<\/strong> disks (for advanced users only) that contained the NTFS-partitions. Restart the guest-OS again, and voila, explorable extra disks. Shutdown Windows properly and the partitions are once again in a clean state. Mounting them in Ubuntu is now a piece of cake.<\/p>\n VMWare<\/a> is an invaluable piece of software. I own a legal (prehistoric!) “Workstation 3.0” that I used on my laptop to go to clients and being able to work on my<\/em> machine with their<\/em> Windows. Great software!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since my Windows-system (the system disk) crashed, I had no Windows anymore on my PC. After installing Ubuntu, I could mount my NTFS-partitions, but only in read-only mode. Trying to mount them in read-write mode resulted in errors, because “the NTFS logfile is unclean”. There are tools for Linux that can set a flag in […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}