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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 ...
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Is it possible to backup the MFT in Windows? - NTFS
I experienced my first crashed Hard Drive a few days back, luckily it was not the primary disk and was just full of software which I could reinstall on.
I tried several utilities like
Easeus ...
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How did chkdsk repair a failing drive (ntfs) that was even flapping in the bios?
One of my client PC's blue screened overnight and wouldn't boot.
The system post was hanging also for about 10 seconds trying to find the drive.
System would not boot afterwards saying "inaccessible ...
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How to recover quick-formated (Windows NTFS disk, formated by Mac) HDD?
I accidentally connected a Windows NTFS HDD to a Mac. The Mac was in a foreign language (Italian) and I (may be) quick-formated the HDD. I think that the information is there, but the FAT table is ...
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Convert NTFS to case-insensitive
Can I convert an NTFS volume to case-insensitive? If I can do it by formatting / erasing, that is fine. I have a backup. BTW, I cannot use FAT, exFAT, EXT3, EXT4 or others. I have to use NTFS.
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Is there a solution to replace Account Unknown (S-1-5-21-*) SIDs with existing SID
I have a typical "Account Unknown" on many files from old/other Windows installations and there are a ton of typical answers everywhere.
However, I'm not looking for typical takeown, subinacl, xcacls ...
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Prevent Windows 7 User Accounts from accessing files in other User Accounts
I'm trying to set up another User Account on my Windows 7 Professional laptop for use by another person. I do not want that person to have access to any of the files in my User Account on the same ...
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Getting files out of a NTFS-formatted system disk via USB
I have replaced an old SATA disk in my laptop with an SSD. Now I want to get some files (that I thought I backed up but I didn't) from the old disk. I have an external disk enclosure that connects the ...
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Is there ANY backup tool that can handle 256 path length limit on NTFS?
Is there ANY backup tool that can handle 256 path length limit on NTFS ?
I'm not talking about a sync or filecopy tool like robocopy,
but an incremental backup tool like cobian backup (which cannot ...
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How to find out which files are stored in a certain section on the disk [closed]
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How do I determine what file occupies a given sector?
My hard drive recently spit out bad sectors. I used ddrescue to clone it onto a another drive. Unfortunately there ...
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Which built-in windows group should I use for NTFS permissions on dual boot Win7?
I am still using dual-boot on some of my computers, so I have two Windows 7 installations running. Most data is on a partition on a separate hard drive that both installations use.
For certain files ...
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Provoke corrupt ntfs file system or change it to a non accessible under windows
Is there a way to provoke a corrupt NTFS file system? Or how could I change the hdd's file system to any other (extX, raw) without data loss and accessible under linux but not under windows (well, at ...
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Is it possible to create an image of a corrupted HDD?
My hard drive is corrupted but recovering it bit by bit, takes ages as its a USB2 portable HDD.
But I need my portable hard drive for uni/college. Is it possible to copy the entire hard drive ...
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Portable HDD keeps corrupting? popup “format this drive to use it etc”
I've got a ADATA Superior SH93 (500GB) for a while now. Formatted as NTFS. And within the first week two times the drive got corrupted (asks me to format it to be able to use it, although it was ...
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Is it possible to control disablelastaccess on a per disk basis in Windows 7?
I want to use Lastaccess info on the system disk at least for some time, but not on the storage disks.
1) Is it possible to control disablelastaccess on a per disk/partition basis in Windows 7?
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Create a multiboot USB drive with NTFS or ext2
I am trying to create a multiboot flash drive, but I don't want to use fat 16 due to the huge performance cliff between fat 16 and other file systems like ext 2 or NTFS. I need to have multiple linux ...
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Resize a raid1 ntfs partition
My computer is running windows 7 on a software raid1 (ntfs obviously) partition.
I would like to reduce the size of the partition (currently the on whole disk) to install a raid0 (or 1 I don't know ...
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Padlock overlay and Authenticated Users Group in Windows 7
In Windows 7 Professional how to you eliminate the padlock overlay icon from multiple files? I can do it from individual files by adding the "Authenticated Users" group to the list that has full ...
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Need advice with TestDisk output
I have a 1.5tb NTFS storage hard drive (1TB data), it was accidently formatted fat32 bootable, the format utility only ran for a few seconds before the drive was disconnected.
Using Test disc from ...
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How to transfer a Time Machine to an NTFS partition (or how to copy HFS+ hard links)
Do you know a way to copy HFS+ hard links to a folder on a HFS+ or NTFS drive?
Before you say it can't be done, I don't want actual backing up functionality of Time Machine, just the ability to ...
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Is it possible to determine when a NTFS partition was created?
We have a client where it would be very useful to determine WHEN a drive was a initialized or an NTFS partition created. Is there a timestamp value somewhere? If anyone could shed any advice it ...
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Migrating Windows 7 to new hard drive/partition
So, I'be managed to migrate my Windows 7 data over from /dev/sdb3 to a new partition on /dev/sdc1 using ntfsclone. I managed to resize the volume size to match the new partition size. I also used ...
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NTFS permissionless for limited user account xp home
Help me please...
How to make every external drive with NTFS enable delete files or folder in limited user account xp home edition. Just like automaticaly permissionless. Like FAT32.
I can make it in ...
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testdisk: finds primary NTFS boot partition, but can't mount/access data/boot
Ran Ultimate Boot CD on a Windows XP machine that's in a reboot loop (safe mode not working), checked disk health, etc. It's fine. Ran testdisk, finds the NTFS primary boot partition, can browse ...
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Why does a journal filesystem need to check disk?
After I got the BSOD on my Windows 7 computer, I restarted my computer to find it asking me to do a disk check. I did other things in the meantime but it seemed like it took a few minutes.
If the ...
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Troubleshooting a failing Hitachi hard drive
Recently, a friend's XP computer started to refuse booting, both in regular and Safe Boot modes: the windows logo appears, then the progress bar hangs, a BSOD is shown for a few milliseconds, ...
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Recover slightly corrupted Windows XP drive with Linux
I installed Linux and that involved shrinking a Windows NTFS partition. I didn't move it, just shrinked it a hair. When I rebooted windows, it said "Disk can not be read". I booted my Lubuntu and ...
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Resizing partitions without moving or loosing data (dual boot)
I have a Dell Studio 1555 currently dual booting Windows 7 & Ubuntu with a dedicated NTFS partition that serves as a bridge between OSes for my files,music, videos etc... My Windows HDD is running ...
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Serving NTFS partition on linux through ftp
I'm using the default configuration for proftpd on Linux Mint with only the following directive changed:
# Use this to jail all users in their homes
DefaultRoot ~
I created a user userftp ...
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How do I read and write to NTFS drive on Mac OS Lion
I have tried the following solutions without success:
Paragon NTFS
Tuxera NTFS
http://osxfuse.github.com/
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2010/10/ntfs-3g-for-mac-os-x-2010102.html
All of them allow ...
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Disconnected USB drive during NTFS file transfer, will space be reclaimed?
I have a NTFS external drive that I was transfering a large file to. The transfer appeared to be hanging, so I pulled the USB connection. Is the file system smart enough to reclaim the disk space for ...
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How does cluster size affect NTFS compression ratio?
I read that NTFS compression needs a patition formatted with an allocation unit size <= 4KB.
How can the cluster size of a partition affect the ratio of NTFS compressed files? For example, a ...
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Recover drive damaged by software [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Best undelete tool for NTFS/FAT?
I was working in windows and decided to reboot. When I reboot, the drive that the windows partition is on is unrecognizable and is not ...
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Sector-precise partition editor with resize NTFS?
Is there a sector-precise partition manager that can resize an NTFS partition? Accepting Windows software and Live CDs.
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Hard/SymLinks and Alternate Data Streams
An interesting thought just occurred to me while thinking about NTFS.
NTFS supports hard links, symbolic links, and Alternate Data Streams. Is it possible for an ADS to be a link to another file? ...
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Windows: How turn off hidden attribute for all files and directories on a drive?
My Windows 7 was recently infected by the system-fix.com virus and it hid all my files and directories. I believe I've removed the virus but I still can't find many files and programs.
Is there a ...
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Scenario - NTFS Symbolic Link or Junction?
Differences
Symbolic Link - Relative or absolute paths, supports UNC shares and file or directory targets
Junction - Absolute, local directory targets only
Scenario
Let's assume we're creating a ...
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Why is NTFS case sensitive?
I personally thought that NTFS was case insensitive, since you can type cmd, CMD, cMd or even CmD and still get the command prompt. However, why is it that during a CHKDSK x: /f /r, sometimes it fixes ...
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Cannot remove files on Windows
I've got some files that I wish to delete. They are on a local hard drive. This hard drive has never been near any other operating system. I am the administrator, and the only administrator, for this ...
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Seeing Ubuntu-made files on an NTFS partition from within Windows 7
I have a dual boot system in place, Ubuntu/Windows, each on its on physical hard drive since I also have SRT active on the Windows partition.
The setup is as follows:
Disk 1:
- Partition 1: System ...
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Creating files in NTFS root folder
Introduction:
I'm attempting (and in part succeding) in replacing a number of folders with mounted VHDs in Windows Server 2008 R2, in an attempt to emulate UNIX' bahaviour with bind- or loop-mounts. ...
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Puzzled whether format the partition or simply copy back contents
In my previous question ntfs-partition-gets-auto-corrupt-becomes-raw-and-unreadable,
I got some answers, but I am still not clear as to how to solve the problem.
To quickly summarize it,
Problem: ...
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Make file undeleteable but accessable
Iam having a problem with denying current user from deleting file on desktop.
I tried to use icacls with:
icacls file /grant:r %username%:(X,AD,WD,RD)
from site but it didnt help
I tried to deny ...
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Formatting a Drive in Windows XP vs. Windows 7 [closed]
Are there any differences between formatting a drive in Windows XP vs. 7?
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Recovering data from two partitions, one NTFS, the other ext4
I have an external HD, and it had three partitions on it. One was a 4GB ext4 filesystem ,and two others 120GB NTFS and 120 GB ext4.
I created an image on the 4GB using the Linux utility dd on Fedora ...
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NTFS disk hardware fail - recover files
I looked at most questions related to this, but most of them are when somebody accidentally formatted the HDD. So I'm asking again.
Dell Laptop with 70Gb HDD crashed. Windows XP is not bootable, ...
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windows 7: Event 55 The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable
Here is a real bad one!
Windows 7 RTM with SP1 installed [Version 6.1.7601].
Recently tried to delete some folder on my hard drive and Windows prompted "Error 0x80070570: The file or directory is ...
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How could a directory transform into a Unix file?
I have an NTFS hard drive which I've been reading/writing to on my iMac using NTFS-3G / Tuxera. The reason that it's NTFS formatted is because it came out of my old PC. Its singular function is the ...
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How to format External Western Digital hard disk when all NTFS boot sectors cannot be written to
I want to format my external hard drive which is a Western Digital 500GB, through cmd dos command. But it fails because all NTFS boot sectors are not writable. Here are the commands I gave and what I ...
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1TB NTFS to FAT32 Drive too big?
I have just tried to change the format a 1tb NTFS drive to fat32 and I'm getting a message that the drive's too big. Can anyone help?
