Re: Linux utility needed in Windoz

On 1/19/2022 1:18 AM, Robert Baer wrote:

>> Even Linux has utilities, such as "ntfsfix" for fixing the $MFTMIRR
>> that Windows 10 keeps breaking.
> * Meaning Win 10 crashes ranDUMBly?
> How often, and is it hard to fix?

$MFTMIRR is *damaged* by Windows 10.

If you are in Linux and get a complaint that a partition
cannot be mounted, that's when you might try ntfsfix.
Assuming it is an NTFS partition of course.

*******

Moving back and forth between Windows and Linux is a
pain in the ass, when it really should not be like that.
But Microsoft must mess around, and that's just a taste
of what happens.

The System32 folder in a Windows C: is compressed with
New Compression attribute, and that must be undone before
you can modify System32 DLLs and the like, from Linux.

In Windows 10

    compact.exe /compactos:query   # Check Windows C: System32 for New Compression present

    compact.exe /compactos:never   # Tell Windows 10 to undo the compression. Now the
                                   # files can be modified from Linux.

You would not do that to a Windows tablet with 32GB Flash storage, but
for most other hard drive based desktops and the like, the option to
disable compression is perfectly viable.

HTH,
    Paul