how to do chkdsk in windows 7 without using more than 5GB RAM?

[Nothinman]

The terminal in Linux is one of the best things about it. It's infinitely more useful than cmd in Windows. But you rarely actually _need_ it these days, Ubuntu has gone to great lengths to curb it's use. I haven't had any issues with network shares, but I usually mount them manually by running /sbin/mount.cifs from the command line.

Personally, I wouldn't do the WUBI thing. It's got to be slower since you're running the system from a loopback file within a non-native filesystem. Running it in a VM for testing would likely work out much better.

 

[tommo123]

think i've got virtualbox somewhere.

will give it a shot.

though - how's the ATi drivers now for linux?

 

[Nothinman]

All of my Linux boxes have nVidia cards so I can't really comment on AMD/ATI's stuff. But that won't matter while you're running it virtualized since it'll just see the virtual hardware.

 

[tommo123]

ta mate.

i guess as the drive is connected via USB that as long as i allow it, the vbox ubuntu install will be able to have exlusive access to the drive?

 

[Nothinman]

I'm not sure about VirtualBox, I've got VMware Workstation through work but I believe so.

 

[tommo123]

ta

 

[asdfas]

' If you have more than 4 GB RAM then you can limit chkdsk RAM usage to 4 GB by using the chkdsk 32bit version. It is found in C: \Windows\SysWow64\chkdsk.exe ' source: http://superuser.com/questions/328165/why-is-chkdsk-using-90-of-my-ram