Found out why NTFS is not mounting?

eivinn · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 219 Location: Norway

I have like many other problems with mounting NTFS drives made with Windows2000. Last day when reinstalling Gentoo I run into some other partition problems resulting in the same error (bad ...block or too many mountet filesystems).
I fixed this by changing filesystem id.

Question is: Will this break my current NTFS drive?

Currently it reports as NTFS/HPFS in fdisk. This must be incompatible with the NTFS module in the kernel.

What filesystem id should I use if it's possible to change without deleting all data on the partition?

kirill

eivinn · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 219 Location: Norway

Well, I meant that I fixed the error with my filesystem id "b" FAT32, by changing it to "c" FAT32(..). This partition didn't have any data on it and I'm a bit worried if I delete a whole NTFS partition by changing the id to "NTFS Logical...". I tried to install WinXP on this once, but XP wouldn't recognise the format. But again, that wasn't a formatted partition.

So question is: Will I be able to mount my NTFS drive by changing filesystem id to "NTFS Logical..." with fdisk, or will this break the partition data?