NTFS (New Technology File System) is the default file system for Windows NT and its derivatives (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, Server 2003 and 2008).
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Everyone has read/write/execute permission, but no one can create files
I mounted my USB hard drive using the instructions here and, well:
$ sudo mount -t ntfs -o umask=000 -rw /dev/sda1 "/media/MyBook/"
$ ls -l /media
total 12
(a couple irrelevent directories here)
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Windows 7 doesn't loads after Solaris attempted install
I got two hard disks, one of 40gb and another one with 1tb.
The 40gb has windows 7 installed on it, taking all the space of this hdd, and in the 1tb disk i got few logic and extended partitions; in ...
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Scan formatted hard drive for ANSI txt file?
Is there any software that will allow me to undelete a text file encoded in ANSI? I know one line of the TXT file (so search would be useful). The hard drive was formatted using a quick format so the ...
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Cloning flash drive while preserving empty space
I'm working with an industrial PC running Windows XP embedded.
The PC has a 2GB compact flash memory which acts as main drive.
I would like to clone the 2GB flash memory to a card with 8GB space.
How ...
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How to defragment a large TrueCrypt volume that has barely any free space
I have a TrueCrypt 7.1a volume that is about 50 GB in size, formatted with NTFS and has close to 100 MB of free space. I have close to 300,000 files in it. When I was setting this up, I did this ...
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Is there a client impact to server side NTFS compression?
One of a our file servers at work is being compressed with NTFS compression. I've read about it being generally inadvisable on servers. But I've not found anything the states where the ...
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New Windows 7 Installation New Hard Drive [closed]
I'm helping a friend repair a laptop. It is an Acer and had Windows 7 on it previously. There is a fresh HDD installed, and I have Windows 7 ISO on a USB drive. I start the installation process, ...
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Partition invisible on Windows, not on Linux
I have Windows 7 64b installed and recently also installed Ubuntu 12.04
Problem: 2 of 4 Partitions on the same harddrive are not visible in Windows.
Here is some info:
$ df -T
Filesystem Type ...
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What would cause Windows to see a disk device but no volumes?
I just experienced a blown power supply, and in recovering my system, I had to move a disk drive from an internal SATA controller to an external USB enclosure because it has a broken SATA power ...
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Renaming a file to its hardlink
I discovered today that renaming/moving a file onto one of its own hardlinks destroys the source link. If done via an Explorer window, the process is silent (no prompt). Copying (not moving) the file ...
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How to mount an NTFS filesystem, allowing all users full access?
How could I mount an NTFS filesystem in a way that would allow all users full access to it? If I use sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/drive, then only the root user can use it. It won't let me ...
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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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How to view how much RAM NTFS file cache is using? Any way to see what files are cached?
In effort to figure out why there's a general system performance degradation (Windows OS desktop/application lag) in the below issue (which may be memory-related), I would like for a way to see ...
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Is is possible that Tuxera NTFS driver is faulty in listing some filenames?
I'm dual booting Windows and Mac ML, and I'm try to access a file on both operating systems. This file is a song file with japanese characters in it. Windows has no issues accessing this file, however ...
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UEFI Boot a NTFS Drive
I'm trying to install Windows 8 through a bootable USB flash drive, in UEFI Mode. However, while it does work when the drive is formatted as FAT for some versions of Windows 8, the version I want to ...
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Set up NTFS permissions to deny access to a user but allow one of their programs
Is it possible to set up NTFS permissions on a folder to deny access to a user, while allowing a specific program running under their account to access it?
Specifically, user A is logged in as an ...
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Why does NTFS disallow the use of trailing periods in directory names? [closed]
On Linux, I can have a folder named temp..
If I try to do a mkdir temp. on a Windows machine, the trailing period is truncated.
If I try to sync a directory from Linux to Windows that has a trailing ...
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Restoring files on ntfs [duplicate]
So I was using gparted to extend my NTFS partition, but the linux desktop went to sleep and caused gparted to close before it was done.
I ran chkdsk /f /r on the drive and it seemed to repair it; ...
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Vim With Windows+Symlinks and a sandbox directory
I have a large project, and I have to work in and switch between a few directories often.
My solution was to symlink all the files that I want to get to quickly into a sandbox directory.
I just ...
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Recover NTFS partition back without formatting
If I try to chkdsk, I get the error
Unable to unable to determine volume version and state
I'm currently running a Partition Wizard Home Edition scan on the drive and it is
finding files and ...
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Transitioning to Ubuntu
I am currently running Windows 7 with 2 hard drives.
An SSD where the OS and apps are stored.
A HDD which stores all my videos, music, files. (NTFS)
If I was to format the SSD and install Ubuntu, ...
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What's going on with the disk space usage here?
I have a process where I am removing BLOBs from a DB and writing them to a file structure on disk. I have a 1TB disk, with a single folder in the root, and a structure similar to:
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NTFS4DOS without logo?
I want to create NTFS bootable image. I use NTFS4DOS for read/write access to NTFS partitions. I use it because it loads fast, in just a few seconds. Every time I load from it, the NTFS4DOS logo ...
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Windows SymLink Questions: How do I tell if a file is symlinked /
I'm not exactely sure how to phrase my questions, I'll describe what I'm doing, perhaps my misconceptions will show.
I'm on windows 7. I symlinked files that I'm working on in a project to a sandbox ...
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Does OS X support disk compression?
I am new to the Mac world.
As you may know, NTFS has options to "Compress this drive to save disk space" or "Compress contents to save disk space".
I want to know whether OS X supports this feature ...
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Why unrelated files get corrupted after a blue screen of death caused by audio drivers?
Yesterday while hibernating my Windows 7 computer, I got BSOD which complained about Creative sound card driver (ctoss2k.sys). I have been using this system for two years already and I haven't had any ...
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External HDD has corrupted NTFS, can't be mounted on windows. How can I fix it on linux? [duplicate]
I'm testing my friends external HDD, which can't be accessed on Windows 7 - it installs as USB device, but does not mount. On linux, SMART readings show, that the disk has too many bad sectors, but I ...
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HD became RAW, trouble formatting to NTFS, can't install Windows [duplicate]
My grandmother's pc had some issues and wasn't booting into Windows so I was trying to fix it. I was going to make a partition to send the backup files but wasn't able to because the HD became RAW for ...
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Empty folders after NTFS file system recovery
I used TestDisk to restore a "quick formatted" drive. When the software asked something about differing MFTs, I selected to copy the MFT backup. Now I've realized that whole directory branches are ...
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Split HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows
I have a file called hosts located at:
%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc
I want to create two partial file of a single one. So that, I can add my entries each time to a new file without having ...
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NTFS windows 7 file created time stamp bug
I am not sure is it a bug or not. When you make a copy of a file (in the same directory). The created & modified time stamps take the current time. At this point, if you delete/rename the original ...
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How to resolve daylight saving time discrepancy when copying files from camera to HDD?
When copying files from the SDHC card of the camera to a local HDD for storage, I find that sometimes the modified time of files is a hour different. I believe this is because the SDHC card uses ...
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Lost all data after chkdsk on NTFS partition. How do I get it back?
I have a multiboot system with a shared NTFS partition (300gigs) across OS's (Windows7, Debian, Arch).
Recently I booted into Windows and it prompted me to run CHKDSK and after that I can't see any of ...
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Recover Windows with locked NTFS partition
Let me first explain the situation.
I have a laptop with one hard disk. It had Windows 8 on one partition and Windows 7 on another. A third partition was used for the recovery (by default created by ...
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Can't mount image of NTFS partition created by ddrescue
I've used ddrescue successfully in the past but I'm having no luck this time. Usually, I make an image of the partition, run a fsck or whatever else on the image to fix file system errors, mount it ...
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Is it fine to encrypt if there are cross-drive NTFS junctions?
I was thinking of encrypting the whole disk or only my data partition D:. However, I have NTFS junctions on the system partition C: linking to D:. More precisely, I made a junction to point my user ...
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How to recover data from a formatted hard drive? [duplicate]
I am pretty much new to Linux. I have given my hard disk for someone to install ubuntu. He formatted my entire hard disk. I would like to recover some of images that I lost. Previously my hard disk ...
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NTFS vs FAT file system on XP or later, any usage stat?
I'm working on a backup application (something like dropbox, only for different market and different purpose), For this, I need to reliably track changes made to file system.
Because of the way ...
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How to get more information about repeatedly corruptions of a NTFS filesystem?
Brief description
The problem I'll describe occures just recently on my Laptop, running Ubuntu and Win7. Ubuntu is installed on a SSD, and the additional HDD contains the Win7 installation (which ...
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The privilege bits doesn't seem to work on a mounted ntfs partition
I've added a line in /etc/fstab to automount a ntfs partition with umask setting to 000:
/dev/sda6 /home/cuoverkiller/win7.Storage auto umask=000 0 2
expecting all users can read and write without ...
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Is it safe to put a hibernated hard disk to an external casing?
Last night I hibernated my laptop, only to find out in the morning that it cannot be turned on again (power light is off even when the adapter is plugged in). Long story short, I have tried many ways ...
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Retaining usable permissions and ownership copying unix files to NTFS
I have an old solaris system with terabytes of data on it. Recently we got a new server and I went along with the recommendation of a windows server "because it was easy to manage". Someone copied ...
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Can I convert a fat32 disk image to NTFS, and how?
I have just imaged a FAT32 disk drive on a NTFS disk drive.
I'm aware I could have imaged on a FAT32 HDD and convert it later, but I figured it out too late and I'm trying to save processing time (I ...
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How do I add additional locations to the Windows 7 Recycle Bin Properties?
I have set up a home network with a small file server running Samba. I read on a forum post that by re-mapping a user folder on Windows 7 to a network drive, a reference to that drive will be added ...
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Which distros of linux works on ntfs external drive without having to format it? [closed]
So here is the deal: I have an external hard drive NTFS 320GB with some data on it and i want to install an portable version of linux WITHOUT formatting the disk. I'm totally new to linux. Which ...
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Mounting a complete disk image rescued by ddrescue
I've recovered a complete NTFS disk with ddrescue in Linux. The catch is I didn't just rescue the partition (sdX#) but complete disk (sdX) with partition table.
It's really easy to mount disk ...
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any way to mount partial raw ntfs images?
I have a raw image from ddrescue which is a partial image of the complete source NTFS partition, simply because the target drive is smaller then the source.
I cant mount this partial image so as to ...
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Get rid of MountPointManagerRemoteDatabase on external drive (under System Volume Information)
I really want to get rid of the System Volume Information on an NTFS external hard drive to be usually plugged onto the same XP SP3 machine that I have control of. After setting permissions so I can ...
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Why don't hard link destinations on Windows Server 2003 immediately show the proper file size and last modified time?
I wanted to create hardlinks to files on Windows Server 2003 and I stumbled upon the superuser question hardlinks on ntfs with windows. I tried mklink as one of the answers suggested and found that ...
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convert FAT and NTFS without data loss
Which one of these filesystem format conversions will keep the data on disk, and which will require backup, reformat, and restore?
FAT32 to NTFS
FAT32 to FAT16
NTFS to FAT32
NTFS to FAT16
Note: I ...
