Questions[ntfs](ubuntu)

I have a Toshiba satellite A-200 laptop with a Vista OS on it with 4 NTFS partitions

(C:) Vista 
(D:) Entertainment 
(E:) Work 
(F:) Sources

and I wanted to start using Ubuntu instead. So I tried it first from the live CD and everything was OK and all the partitions were shown and working and so I decided to install Ubuntu to replace Vista on the (C:) drive. After I did that I can no longer find my folders and files on the (D:), (E:), (F:) partitions and the only file system that is shown is one 198 GB although my HDD is 320 GB.

I can't access the lost data on the remaining 120 GB which I hope is still there and not totally lost

I am now working from the live CD but I am unable to install testdisk. Can I recover the Vista partitions by the product recovery CD to get my laptop back to the factory settings? Can I recover the NTFS partitions using a recovery program for Windows or will that make the problem worse?

I need these data badly as I don't have a backup for them.

I need to hide an NTFS partition from listing in the nautilus. How can I achieve that?

Is there any tool to do that?

And how can I hide files in ubuntu (except . operator)

When I try to do a ntfsck to a NTFS partition I get this:

sudo ntfsck /dev/sdb1
Unsupported: replay_log()
Volume is dirty.
Unsupported: check_volume()
Checking 161792 MFT records.
Unsupported cases found.

How can I clean a "dirty" NTFS volume without having to actually use windows chkdsk tool in the NTFS volume.

I also did a ntfsfix and it said that everything was OK but it actually was not.

I also get the same "Dirty" error when trying to check the filesystem using the Disk Utility:

I am starting to think I need some powerful soap.

On several machines that I've upgraded from Natty to Oneiric, I get an error every boot (one for every NTFS partition):

Serious errors were found while checking the disk drive for /windows/c.

Press I to ignore, S to skip mounting, or M for manual recovery

Following the suggestion in this answer, I ran fsck from the manual recovery shell. I got this output:

fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
fsck: fsck.ntfs: not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.ntfs for /dev/sda1

I can't find fsck.ntfs, and command-not-found doesn't help either. How can I make this error go away?

By the way, I've tried booting into Windows (XP) several times, thinking that Windows would repair the filesystems. But apparently Windows thinks the filesysystems are just fine. And it's odd that all NTFS filesystems are affected.

Also, I can work around this problem by dropping to a recovery shell and issuing mount -a, but for my coworkers' sakes I need unattended boot.

I have a script that I need to execute on an NTFS partition. The script's permission is set to 600.

I attempted to modify the permissions by running chmod 755 script.sh, which doesn't report a failure or anything - but it also doesn't change the permissions on the file:

$ stat script.sh

  File: `script.sh'
  Size: 297070      Blocks: 584        IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 811h/2065d  Inode: 35515       Links: 1
Access: (0600/-rw-------)  Uid: ( 1000/  xxxxxx)   Gid: ( 1000/  xxxxxx)
Access: 2010-09-30 14:05:16.041621000 -0700
Modify: 2010-09-30 14:05:05.070157000 -0700
Change: 2010-09-30 14:05:05.070475000 -0700

$ chmod 755 script.sh
$ stat script.sh

  File: `script.sh'
  Size: 297070      Blocks: 584        IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 811h/2065d  Inode: 35515       Links: 1
Access: (0600/-rw-------)  Uid: ( 1000/  xxxxxx)   Gid: ( 1000/  xxxxxx)
Access: 2010-09-30 14:05:16.041621000 -0700
Modify: 2010-09-30 14:05:05.070157000 -0700
Change: 2010-09-30 14:05:05.070475000 -0700

As you can see, it remains unchanged.