Shared Drive Problems (Erased file indexes)

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I've got a dual-boot Win7/FC15 box (Thinkpad) that's got 3 partitions (#3 being a shared NTFS Data drive).

In the past couple of weeks, I've noticed that if I create a new file/folder on the shared drive while in FC15, then it doesn't show up when I boot into Win7. Running the DskChk results in a deleted file/folder.

I'm not really certain where to start w/ this one - am I looking some kind of compatibility issue? Any pointers?

Google-fu and forum-search-fu didn't seem to help.

Tx!

[Jean Pierre]

if I create a new file/folder on the shared drive while in FC15, then it doesn't show up when I boot into Win7.

Windows has restrictive rules on file names. Special characters (such as ? * are not allowed, and the last character may not be a space or dot.

Running the DskChk results in a deleted file/folder.

The chkdsk for Windows 7 renames the files whose name does not conform with Windows rules, it does not delete the files, it moves them to a special directory and puts a log into "/System Volume Information/Chkdsk/Chkdsk*.log" which contains the old name and the inode number, such as : "Deleted invalid filename foo:bar (83) in directory 30."

You should be able to recover your files from there.

Note : if you mount with option "windows_names" you cannot create files which do not match Windows rules.