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ExFat partition not mounting - No main bitmap was found
Had 2tb hard drive for about a year.
Was plugged into windows pc, actively using Exfat partitions 'iTunes' and 'windows'.
The power cord for the hard drive was pulled out, reconnected in both the ...
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Windows Built In FS Conversion tool?
Can I use convert.exe to convert my ExFat drive (Which is 3TB and not the boot drive, if that matters) to NTFS?
I'm in Windows 8, and I SERIOUSLY need to convert my drive, preferably without data ...
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Recover broken exFat drive
So I'm an idiot
And last night, half-asleep, in an attempt to mount a .img to my exFAT-formatted external drive so I could boot Ubuntu from it, I ran
dd if=foo.img of=/dev/disk1
like the Ubuntu ...
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Mount exFAT on Windows
I have a Lenovo Carbon X1 with a 128SSD. I'm dual booting Win7 (need it for a couple of apps that don't run on Win 8) and Win8, so once the OS and apps are on the drive there's not much room for data.
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Convert 64GB USB flash drive from exFAT to FAT32
I used a C400 64GB USB2 Flash Drive EMTEC green to record digital MP4 using a converter of VHS tapes and transferred them to a PC. This has worked very well. But a moment after I deleted one by one ...
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NTFS properties not available in exFAT
I've been trying to find a list of file/folder properties that are available in NTFS but NOT available in exFAT. The reason I want to know this is because I'm trying to copy a few files from a NTFS ...
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Repairing a corrupt exFat file system
Long story short : I messed up my GPT and went on to try to fix it without asking anyone, just searching around. Didn't turn out too well.
Right now all I'm concerned about is a 500GB that I ...
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Resize exfat Hard drive
Is it still impossible to to resize, shrink or extend exfat partitions ?! I cant find a way to do it, neither in windows nor with partitioning software. Any ideas other than formatting the partition ...
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Unable to access external hard disk drive in Windows XP
Note: I can access a flash disk drive formatted as exFAT. Just not my external HDD. So, you can imagine I have installed the exFAT update for winXP.
My external HDD was formatted in Mac OS X as ...
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Windows can't see the external exFAT partition but Mac OSX Can
I have a 2TB external hard drive that was pre formatted as one giant NTFS partition. I used windows 7 disk utility to partition it into two 1TB partitions and then formatted as FAT.
The formatting ...
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Flash drive disconnecting during BitLocker encryption
During the process of encrypting an 32GB, exFAT formatted flash drive (32K cluster size), the encryption process would randomly stop, with an error in the Event Viewer such as "unable to flush ...
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chmod'ing file on exFAT
Is it possible to chmod a file on an exFAT formatted drive? I'm on Mac OS X and I would like to set the permissions to not be 777. Is this possible?
What I'm really trying to do is set the ...
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Getting around the FAT32 4GB file size limit
I recently purchased a 32GB USB 3 stick that was formatted FAT32. I plugged it into my computer and attempted to copy a film onto it, the file was over 4GB however and it would not let me copy the ...
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How to open exFAT SSD in Ubuntu 12.04?
I have some files on my SSD and I want to put them on my Ubuntu 12.04(64bit) desktop , but Ubuntu cannot open the exFAT SSD when I connect it via USB. How can I make it work?
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OS X Lion thinks Windows UDF-formatted external drive as exFAT and tells that the drive is invalid
I've recently bought a Mac, and I want to share my Seagate FreeAgent 1.5 TB external hard drive with both my Mac and my PC. I've searched and found that exFAT or UDF is the way to go to have ...
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Is it best to reformat the hard drive to exFAT using 512kb chunk, or smaller or bigger chunks?
I can reformat a brand new 2TB WD Passport drive to exFAT, with choice of many "Allocation Unit Size":
128kb
256kb
512kb
1024kb
4096kb
16384kb
32768kb
which one is best if this drive is mainly used ...
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Is it best to reformat our external Hard drive to exFAT for compatibility with Mac?
I just got one of those Western Digital 2TB Passport external hard drive. Is it true that if I want the iMac running Lion on it to be able to read and write any files on the drive, and to have files ...
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Creating exFAT partition (for PC & Mac) alongside bootable HFS+ partition?
I have an external hard drive with a bootable HFS+ partition on it. I have unallocated space on this drive that I want to create a new exFAT partition on, so that my entire family's computers, both ...
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exFAT to NTFS formatting troubles
I recently ran a chkdsk on 2.5" 230GB SATA HDD but the plug was pulled before the end of the chkdsk and since then it wouldn't boot up.
Deciding to scrap all data on the HDD (no longer needed it), I ...
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Shrink exFAT partition
Is there any way to shrink an exFAT partition?
The windows disk manager has the "Shrink" option greyed out.
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Please explain wasted space on an exFAT formatted external hard drive
I recently bought a 750 GB 2.5" hard drive and put it in an external enclosure. It has Advanced Format Technology (AFT), but I use Windows 7, so I assumed I would be safe.
I decided to try exFAT, ...
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What's the technical reason why exFAT gives longer life expectancy to flash drives, than NTFS?
I might not have searched around really hard enough the answer of this, my question, but I really would like to know why.
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Disable automatic fsck_exfat on dirty volume mount in Mac OSX
I've several large hard disks formatted in exFAT to keep clean compatibility between Win7/Bootcamp and Snow Leopard.
Here's the problem: fsck_exfat needs something like 6-8gb of RAM to complete on a ...
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Windows 7 can't see exFat partition that I made in OSX Disk Utility
My HDD is formatted as the following
[HFS+ OSX SYSTEM PARTITION]
[HFS+ OSX TIME MACHINE PARTITION (just for convenient history)]
[NTFS WINDOWS 7 SYSTEM PARTITION]
[exFAT PARTITION]
[FREE SPACE]
the ...
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exfat sd volumes transfer to pc
Camcorders are now being upgraded to handle large sd cards in excess of 32 GB. I am now seeing cards upto 128 GB. How does one move these files to a windows pc so as to burn to a BlueRay disk.
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Why should I use exFAT over NTFS on removable media?
So, basically I always format my removable mass storage devices as NTFS by default, but someone told me I was better off using exFAT. Now I've been looking around google, but can't find any good ...
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Convert NTFS volume to exFAT (without losing contents)
I have a 500GB external hard disk which I use mostly for storing movies/music and some backup. Since I have some rather large files I use NTFS on it, but don't need the security/compression/encryption ...
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Does or will exFAT support symlinks?
I've just acquired a brand new laptop. Did split my ssd in 3 partitions, one for win7, one for macOSX and one shared data partition. I chose exFAT for this partition, but i did not find how to create ...
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what appropriate “Allocation Unit Size” for an exFAT SD card with ReadyBoost
I've brought an 4GB SD card and I'm dedicating it for use by ReadyBoost (on Windows7)
Im looking to get the most profit on performance, so i've formatted it with exFAT (as recommended by Microsoft) ...
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Which file system to use for a large (1 TB) external hard drive?
I've got a 1 TB hard disk drive which is currently formatted as NTFS. I've recently learned about exFAT. I'm connecting this drive via USB. Which filesystem should I use for this large hard disk drive ...
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Is exFAT safe to unplug without unmounting first?
I'm hitting the 4GB limit of FAT32 on USB drives more and more often. However, being able to unplug the device without unmounting it first is a must have for me. I've noticed exFAT recently, however I ...
