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). NTFS was developed when Microsoft decided to create Windows NT: WinNT as an operating system should be more complete and reliable, did not serve as the ...
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Is it possible to reformat an NTFS drive as Ext3 while keeping the data intact?
I have a 2 TB drive with about 900 GB of data on it. I'd like to convert it to ext3. I understand that there is no way to actually do it. So I'd like to try the following:
Shrink the 2TB ...
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Partitioning HDD on Windows 64 bit
I got here Dell laptop running Windows 7 professional 64 bit. I just installed it. I am using Windows's Disk Management tool to partition the disk. There is C partition, then System Reserved partition ...
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tool to repair mft or ntfs journal on a disk which underwent failed hibernation
I've read through some of the posts related to corrupt or not working ntfs partitions, but without a proper solution for my case. Here it is: my system is
SSD on mini pci express, with win 7 ...
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How do I create a symlink on NTFS from Linux?
According to the NTFS-3G documentation,
Dereferencing junction points and symbolic links created by Windows is thus made possible, so are hard linking, renaming and deleting, but creating new ones ...
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How to remove bad sectors information from cloned partition?
When some bad sectors ( literally 5 ) appeared on my previous HDD, I decided to replace it. I decided to clone whole drive using dd (run from GPartEd) in do-not-stop-on-read-error mode. That is:
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Can a hp SimpleSave 2TB External Hard Drive be recovered thats possibly been infected by a Mac computer?
A hp simplesave 2TB external HD owner, recently lent it out. When it came back, it couldn't be used with Windows anymore
They thought it may have become too full
It went to the 2nd person again with ...
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How do I recover files from a RAW-formatted external HDD? [closed]
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RAW to NTFS (Data already recovered so not important)
My external HDD suddenly changed to RAW format so i can't access it anymore. Is formatting the disk to NTFS and ...
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Newly formatted (NTFS) external hard drive already has 'Used space'. What determines the used space's amount? Is it correlated to the HD's capacity?
I just bought a new external hard drive (WD Elements - 1 TB). In a PC with Windows 7, I formatted it by Right-clicking the drive > Format (Quick Format - NTFS) before using it and, and then checked ...
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Does Linux support NTFS file system [closed]
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Is NTFS on Ubuntu stable?
Does Linux (Fedora + Ubuntu) support NTFS file-system. They are known to support ext file system. I want to have same file system for both the ...
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Verifying file integrity on NTFS under linux
I have an NTFS volume that I share between a linux machine and a windows machine. Recently I have had a couple of strange problems where files have become corrupted. This has affected some media ...
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How can I clean an NTFS journal from Mac OS X 10.7.3?
One of my hard disks has an NTFS volume with an unclean journal. I want to make an image of the volume using Disk Utility, however How can I clean the NTFS volume from Mac OS X? I have tried ...
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Looking to report on last file access for our archives
We are looking to generate a report that would let us know when files in our archive were last accessed. We are trying to determine which files can be moved to lower cost and slower storage devices, ...
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How can I induce a non-zero return code from chkdsk.exe?
I am writing a line-of-business utility that will, among other tasks, run chkdsk.exe in read-only mode on NTFS secondary data hard disks. To fully test my utility I need to induce a state on one of ...
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NTFS-3G: Using user mapping, all files become executable after boot to Windows
I have an NTFS partition shared between Windows 7 and Fedora 15. I added a .NTFS-3G/UserMapping file to map my main user/group in Windows to my main user/group in Linux. This was fine until I booted ...
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After a repair/chkdsk, all NTFS junction points are gone
I've been repairing a Windows 7 64-bit installation. In the process, the Windows partition was subjected to several rounds of automatic repair, chkdsk, sfc, even a volume shrink. Long story. Anyway, ...
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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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Is it safe to replace a folder with a partition mounted to that folder n Windows 7?
I know most programs won't notice the difference, but is it true for e.g. virtualization software like VMware?
I'll give you an example:
Let's say my virtual machines are in C:\_VM\
My C: space ...
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Remove Permissions
On one of my a partitions, Windows 7 is installed. I would like to delete this partition, but to backup before the following folder "E:\Users\Daniel". Just copying the folder doesn't work ...
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CHKDSK is unable to fix NTFS errors
After my PC shutdown due to power failure, I noticed several errors in EventViewer.
The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume ...
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I don't understand changes to Vista/7/2008 NTFS permissions
In NT prior to Vista, if you created a local folder and were in the Administrators group and gave that folder Full Control, you could access that folder locally. Now in Vista/7/2008 it says "would you ...
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How does NTFS compression affect performance?
I've heard that NTFS compression can reduce performance due to extra CPU usage, but I've read reports that it may actually increase performance because of reduced disk reads. How exactly does NTFS ...
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NTFS partition accidentally turned into a unknown filesystem type
I had an XP partition set as my boot partition, set to the left of my Windows 7 partition. I deleted the XP partition and expanded the 7 partition to the left. I tried to restore the MBR using ms-sys ...
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Drive system file size
When i made a new drive it take some space for system file
FAT32 take the less space, then NTFS, then ext4
my question how to know the space will be taken for the system before make the drive, if the ...
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NTFS partition alteration or removal
My PC has one disk divided into 2 partitions. The second (which in Disk Management is referred to as 'Boot'and 'Logical') appears to contain the OS although there is a WINDOWS folder on the larger ...
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How can I recover files from an hd I accidentally converted from NTFS to EXT3
I accidentally converted my 1TB external drive from NTFS to EXT3. I have a ton of data on the drive and I believe the data should still be there. Is there any way to either convert it back to NTFS ...
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How to delete file that has invalid name? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Files with illegal filenames
I've accidentally created -?.tgz file on my NTFS hdd (working under linux). And I'm just curious is it possible to delete it under Windows 7 ...
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How can I add metadata to NTFS files/folders?
I want to tag different file types (i.e. .pdf, .epub, .iso, .bin, folders,..) using the same descriptive fields. For example i would like a metadata field "type" which would be "eBook" on pdf- and ...
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Add partition to Windows XP Guest after extending Logical Volume on host?
How do I add a partition to a Windows XP Guest after extending the Logical Volume on the host?
I have a CentOS 6 Server running several virtual machines, one of which is a Windows XP Guest. The ...
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How to create link in NFS that is visible through NTFS?
I have a NFS share in Windows 2008 mounted in Linux.
If i create a symlink in Linux it works as expected in Linux.
In Windows it appears as a file and we can't follow it.
If i create a link in ...
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NTFS partition created in OSX won't show up in Windows
I have a 3TB external drive that I recently partitioned and formatted to use to backup all my various computers -- two partitions, one NTFS and one HFS+. I did the initial setup using Disk Utility on ...
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how to convert NTFS to ext4 in windows?
I want to convert one partition of my windows which is NTFS (or can be FAT32) to a linux file system partitioning?
I'm looking for some tools or ways to do it for me!
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How can I trace NTFS and Share Permissions to see why I can (or can't) write a file
I'm trying to track down WHY I can write in a folder that, by my best estimation, I should not be able to write. The folder is shared with "Everyone" has "Full Control", with the files being more ...
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How can I know which blocks/sectors were last written to on an NTFS volume?
Is there a tool that would enable me to identify which blocks of data were last (most recently) written to an NTFS volume?
Perhaps the NTFS volume's "$Journal" file might have information that can be ...
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Any way to recover a file with bad blocks (CRC error in Windows)?
What I see is this:
Windows complains when reading a file because the CRC for it mis-matches its calculated CRC.
This means NTFS has a CRC for the file.
I expect the offending block/sector can be ...
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Why does fsutil have a byte count mismatch in sectors versus clusters?
I'm using fsutil to get info about a drive. Here's actual output:
NTFS Volume Serial Number : ...
Version : 3.1
Number Sectors : 0x0000000004fccfff
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What is the maximum allowed file size for NTFS partitions?
I'm writing an application running on Windows XP And Windows Vista (both are 32 bit version) which has to write a very large file on disk, on a NTSF partition.
What is the maximum allowed file size ...
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Need advice on HDD imaging software
I am trying to decide on imaging software.
My system:
Desktop running Vista 64 and 750GB hard drive.
I need to create an image file of this entire disk, including the MBR, and put it on an external ...
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Cloning Fresh Windows 7 -fsed HDD to Linux Server because having no external HDD or disks for the Backup
New lenovo x220 laptop with Windows 7 Pro with the below specs. I want to backup the disk to my server but I need to know the W7 fs, what is it?
$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb Windows/
NTFS signature ...
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Is there a maximum recommended usage percentage for an NTFS volume?
A few years ago I heard something about the maximum recommended usage for an NTFS volume not exceeding 50% otherwise it's performance would drop drastically. I do not recall any arguments just the ...
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Filesystem compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 and Windows 7
I have a laptop that installed with hackintosh (OSX 10.7) and Windows 7. I already created with 3 partitions with GUID partition table. Mac using Extended (Journaled), and windows 7 using NTFS.
The ...
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Recover locations of moved files
I'm desperately looking for a solution to my problem.
A Windows virus moved all my ebooks from their sorted out folders to the parent directory. an example of what I mean is:
ORIGINAL LOCATIONS
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What are these Extended Attributes (EAs) in the files in Windows 8?
When I run CheckDisk on a Windows 8 Consumer Preview volume, I get:
> chkdsk /v S:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Windows 8.
WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running ...
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ddrescue'd an ntfs partition, can I chkdsk it?
I have a hardisk that is failing (windows wouldn't even boot off the recovery disk). I was able to make an image of it in linux using ddrescue, but linux can't mount the thing. In linux I get the ...
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Disk-use tool that's hard-link aware
What tools, akin to Treesize Free (and others of that ilk) are there that are hard-link aware? Either my google-fu is failing, or there aren't that many out there as I haven't yet found one.
I've ...
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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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Can I mount a volume that is targeted by iSCSI in Linux?
I have a GPT NTFS volume that I have targeted by iSCSI. I need it to be a drive on my Windows machine AND access the information simultaneously in Linux. Is this possible? I can do some kind of ...
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How do I mklink junction + move content from C:\Program Files to D:\Program Files?
I have a few applications that absolutely refuse to install into anything but C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files(x86). Changing the registry keys for default install folders doesn't seem to provide ...
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VirtualBox - Mounting raw NTFS partition seems to result in corruption
I am virtualizing Windows 7 using VirtualBox on a Ubuntu 11.10 host. Since I had some performance problems, I decided to mount my native Windows partition (I have a dual-boot setup) in raw mode, which ...
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Is there something like hardlinks that split into separate files on modifications?
Let's say files orig and copy are huge but identical files. In order to save storage space one could therefore either make copy a soft-link to orig or hard-link both files to the same data. orig must ...
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Can append only NTFS files become corrupted if power goes out?
NTFS journals metadata so the file system itself doesn't corrupt if the machine goes down. I read this is not the case for file data itself. But what if the data is only appended at the end of the ...
