Somethings gone wrong - maybe badly, do you know what this means....

[Diss]

I am running Ubuntu Feisty

Not sure if this is anything to do with the problem but i'll start with it just in case:

If i open system monitor there is a line that reads:
/proc/fs/vmblock/mountpoint
type:vmblock
total:0
free:0
device:none

i don't recall it there before - what is it?

OK - onto the real problem:

1) its a dual boot system and winXP no longer boots - it just hangs at the starting windows screen - Ubuntu boots fine though

2) If i try and access one of the (3) hard drives Ubuntu locks up. This HD is an additional windows drive (NTFS) though it is not the boot drive

3) sometime opening system monitor doesn't seem to work (or fdisk -l)

4) i originally noticed lock ups when i was accessing MP3s on the NTFS drive which locked up the system - not tried this for long but crashes even happen if System Monitor tried to open (when running Amarok)

I was thinking maybe the NTFS hard drive is on the way out, but on the dual boot HD Ubuntu boots but not winXP so i assume the physical boot drive is OK

CONCLUSION
WinXP is somehow messed up, and/or maybe the (non) boot NTFS drive is also busted

anyway i can do something like a scandisk from linux?

any other suggestions much appreciated

thanks

Diss

 

[gumbald]

Do you get any of the crashes when you unplug the non-boot NTFS drive altogether?

 

[leezer3]

Dead drive
I would presume Windows is trying to access it at boot time (It sometimes chooses to store files in the most stupid places)
If you've been using NTFS-3G or similar to write to the drive in Linux, if you're lucky this could be the root of the problems, but it sounds hardware-terminal (Windows shouldn't totally hang, but error with a simply corrupted drive)

-Leezer-