Questions tagged [ntfs]
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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Accessing EFS-encrypted files after resetting Windows password
I have some EFS-encrypted files in Windows. The owning user account is protected by a password, which can be easily bypassed (i.e. reset) by many tools and methods.
So what will happen to these ...
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Is ext4 more expensive than ntfs?
I have just converted an NTFS partition to ext4, however the total space seems reduced from 421G to 415G. Where did the 6G go? And, the reserved space is grown to 199M in ext4, much larger compared to ...
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How can I find all symlinks in Windows Vista or 7?
I'm looking for a way to search for all the symbolic links on a NTFS filesystem on Windows Vista or 7.
It would be even better if I could specify a specific target to see if it has any symlinks ...
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Windows 7 : Disk space : windirstat shows 88 GBs used : Windows shows 143 GBs used
The total disk space shown by the "scanner" program is 232GB and the innermost circle shows used space is 143GB.
When I check with WinDirStat the total files used are 88GB.
Does this mean that the ...
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Where are files in the Recycle Bin stored, in respect of partitions?
I understand that the Recycle Bin is shared amongst local drives (partitions). When a file is "deleted" and sent to the Recycle Bin, does the file itself stay on the partition it was in prior to ...
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How to change file creation time in the different file systems
Is there a tool that would allow me to change the file creation time and file modified time on a list of files?
Must be able to work in the NTFS and FAT32 file systems.
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perform a CHKDSK on an NTFS image?
I have a system with a hard drive that has a few bad sectors. I used ddrescue to recover all available sectors on the drive, but the drive continues to develop new bad sectors so I junked it. Two runs ...
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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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Can't delete folder (in Windows 10) that contains special character [duplicate]
I have run into something that looks like a bug in Windows.
I have extracted a RAR archive onto my PC and the extracted folders cannot be deleted by any means!
My OS's language is English with some ...
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How are filenames stored?
I noticed that renaming a file doesn't change its hash. I also noticed that creating an empty file gives a file of zero bytes, yet it has a filename.
Since the filename seems to travel with the file ...
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Accidentally moved folder to System Volume Information
I accidentally moved a folder with lots of subfolders and files to System Volume Information on a Bitlocker-partially-encrypted flash drive. Now I can't move them back (not even with control-Z).
The ...
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What is Reserved MFT Space?
When I look at the drive map of Defraggler, I see a large section that I would estimate is about 4 Gigs that is Reserved MFT space.
I am running XP Home. This is an older machine and I am running out ...
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Getting Through EFS (Encrypted File System)
I'm 99% sure, at this point, that the answer is, "not possible." But I figured there are tons of smart people here who might be able to help me out, even if that help is just to validate that it's not ...
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how to set automatic NTFS LZX compression on new files
I know it is possible to compress files on the commandline with LZX:
COMPACT /C /S:E:\Backup /EXE:LZX
But i would like to do that BEFORE the files gets written on the disk.
If i enable compression ...
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Can't shrink to available partition volume in Windows [duplicate]
I have 1TB HDD with 800GB free space plus a typical System Reserved partition.
I removed system files before shrinking in Disk Management since suggested shrinking size was no more than 100GB
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Clonezilla restore from Samba - no 'restoredisk' option
I used a CloneZilla LiveCD to back up a couple of Windows machines to a Samba share. Now I'm trying to restore those images, and CloneZilla won't even give me the 'restoredisk' or 'restorepart' ...
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Will I suffer any major drawback(s) if I have the drive formatted as FAT-32
Is there any disadvantage(s) of using a 500GB external hard drive formatted as FAT-32 or is it simply a choice?
I am asking this because I am an owner of a PS3 and it only recognizes FAT-32 formatted ...
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undelete big files - mission impossible?
I've accidentaly deleted outlook.pst (6.7GB) file, while there was only 400MB free space left on primary NTFS partition (winxp).
I've tried several recovery tools to get this file back.
"Ontrack Easy ...
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NTFS partition no longer accessible, 3 MFT records corrupted, way to fix them?
I have a 2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 HDD with one NTFS partition. I hadn't used it in months, when I plugged it again this partition had inexplicably become inaccessible : the volume's letter appears in ...
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NTFS Permissions for parent folder to make subfolders accessible
Quick scenario on a local Windows system.
Drive E: is formatted with NTFS has the following layout and permissions:
E:\ (JohnDoe)
E:\folder (Administrator)
E:\folder\...
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Writing to NTFS drive in Linux
I've got an external USB drive that is formatted with NTFS mounted on ~/tmp. I can read it just fine, but cannot write to it, even as root (temp is a folder on the USB drive):
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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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How to have only Windows folder on 20GB SSD?
I know it's super easy to install Linux on multiple drives, but on Windows, I've never seen it before. I want to boot from a 20GB SSD and have everything else on the 1TB HDD. It would look like that : ...
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Is there a successor to NTFS? [closed]
What I am asking is if there is any file system that is known to be a possible successor of NTFS?
I am asking because I just bought a new external, and realized that the path to a file, including the ...
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How to prevent users from deleting one folder, while still giving them modify permissions to other files and folders?
I am trying to prevent users from accidentally deleting a certain folder in a parent folder, while still giving them modify permission on all other files and folders in the parent folder. But they ...
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Convert NTFS partition to ext4 - How to copy the data?
I wanted to convert my D:\ partition with all my data from NTFS to ext4 and the internet told me that I should do the following:
Shrink all partitions to a minimum size
Back up my data (done by ...
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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 to access external HDD with NTFS from my iMac for free? [duplicate]
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A free utility for NTFS writing on Mac OS X 10.6.5?
Is there a way to access (read/write) my external HDD with NTFS file system from my iMac (10.6.5) for free ?
I know about ...
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Recover files after unsuccessful partitioning
I wanted to install another Linux on my computer, so I tried to resize one of my NTFS partitions with Norton Partition Magic. It didn't complete successfully, showed some errors, said that the ...
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How to create bootable DOS USB stick which sees NTFS drives?
How to create bootable DOS USB stick which sees NTFS drives ?
I've found ntfs4dos.exe by Mark Russinovich, but I don't know how to use it with dos.
Also I've found many ways to create DOS bootable ...
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Why would the NTFS ACL utility `icacls` alter the system partition behind the scene?
I attached an hdd to my win7 machine and assigned the drive letter I: to the only partition on the hdd. The hdd was originally from another computer, and to avoid all those "you don't currently have ...
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NTFS: prevent/deny directory delete in a otherwise "personal" folder
I have a directory shared via CIFS from a Windows 7 "server". No domain: just simple workgroup.
My clients access this directory via LAN via "Standard User" (no "Administrator") accounts on the ...
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Are there any changes or additions to NTFS in Windows 8?
With Vista came a number of improvements like self healing and symbolic links. Even though these might be OS improvements, they're functionally file system changes.
For Windows 8 have there been any ...
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How to save a ntfs partition which suddenly became empty
One ntfs partition of my laptop was suddenly wiped out without any notice to me, when I rebooted from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 12.04 today. I am in need of help to save my files on that partition, which ...
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Is there any way to figure out which file is changed by chkdsk to replaced bad cluster?
I already posted similar question, but until nobody replied as solution of it. so i am trying to change the question as more detailed.
This is the last screen just before exiting chkdsk. There were ...
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Migrate to SSD - NTFS mount point for Program Files
Here is my thought. I have a new computer that I just built and am considering migrating to a SSD. I have Windows all setup and my Development environment configured so I want to avoid having to re-...
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Accessing former XP drive as second drive under Windows 7 without Chowning
RE: Accessing former XP drive as second drive under Windows 7
Removed primary drive from XP machine and hooked it up via usb adapter to a machine running Windows 7. Isn't there a way to read this ...
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Allow users to create files but not edit and delete them
Is it possible to allow users creating new files inside a folder but not modifying them?
I'm trying to set such permissions but the problem is that when I disable write attributes and write extended ...
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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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Drive removed while accessing, filesystem is corrupt, can it be fixed?
The drive slipped off my desk and dropped out of a USB-HDD 2.5" SATA caddy while I was copying some files, and now it won't recognize properly in Windows. It does show up in Testdisk but before trying ...
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Windows directory on Linux
I have Linux (suse) and Windows (XP) on my system, but my windows files don't appear in the windows directory of linux. I can't see them. What can I do?
Thanks
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How to easily convert fat32 local disk to ntfs?
How to easily convert fat32 local disk to ntfs?
Can I do it without formatting the local disk?
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How to get NTFS like snapshot behaviour in BTRFS?
I would like to use BTRFS to host VMs in VirtualBox to be able to use Snapshots without LVM or such. In theory I don't need CoW behaviour all the time because of performance reasons and using ...
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External Hard Disk is not empty but files are not being displayed
My external hard disk has data on it. When I right click and see properties it says has 189GB occupied, but I am unable to see any files in it. It is of NTFS format. Can anybody tell me what's wrong ...
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How to compress entire drive C in Windows including locked files?
If I just set checkbox for compressing drive C in Windows Explorer, I will get numerous file sharing errors, because many files are opened when Windows is running.
Is it possible to compress drive in ...
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Is it safe to convert NTFS to ext2 with anyconvertfs?
I want to convert an NTFS filesystem (never used with Windows, and no use of any special features - just a bunch of files. Not even any hard links / symlinks / etc.
I know it's possible to make the ...
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Changing deleted partition back to NTFS without having to recover to another drive
Recently, I accidentally deleted a partition off of my external hard disk. I had a copy of Minitool Power Data Recovery left over when the same drive had become RAW about a year ago. When I selected ...
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What filesystem for shared (read/write) PC/Mac external drive? [duplicate]
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Cross-platform file system
Is there a recommended filesystem to use when sharing an external drive between the Mac and PC? I understand there are options for Macs to read/...
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file permissions - correct ntfs mount option
I want to mount my NTFS partition to have the same permission as my files and folders in Linux. I have the current mount options:
UUID=4C4EF1264EF1098A /run/media/user/FILES ntfs-3g defaults,exec,...
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How can I format a partition as HFS on a PC?
For various unimportant reasons, I want to format a partition using MacOS's native HFS filesystem.
Is there any software that will let me do this on a PC, without connecting the hard drive directly ...
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