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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How to automount NTFS usb sticks on Xubuntu 12.10?
I'm running the Xubuntu 12.10 on a Lenovo T520 laptop.
If I plug a FAT formatted usb stick, it's mounted automatically, but if I plug in a NTFS formatted one, I have to mount it manually.
How to ...
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corrupt NTFS filesystem, how to recover files in folder?
I lost a folder with important data, and would like to know what's the best way to procede in order to recover the files.
this is what happened:
after booting up windows (vista), i received the ...
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Copying Windows 8 Users directory, how can I reliably deal with things with very long paths (possibly nested/linked)?
I was trying to move my "Users" folder in Windows 8 as described here and here.
But when I try to copy the folder using "xcopy" in Windows Installation Disk Repair Mode, after some files are copied, ...
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Running chkdsk on a disk partition without a drive letter
I have a hard drive that shows up in Disk Management as having two partitions.
One of the partitions says 69.71GB and that's it. The other says 4.82GB and, underneath that, Healthy (OEM Partition).
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Recover truecrypted NTFS HDD after quick format without rescue disk
The whole external hard disk NTFS partition was encrypted using TrueCrypt.
I accidentally run quick format on it. I can still mount this partition using truecrypt after restoring volume header but ...
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Do any filesystems support multiple forks / streams on directories?
Apple's HFS+ supports multiple forks such as the old data and resource forks. NTFS supports alternate data streams. I believe some *nix filesystems also have some support for multiple file forks or ...
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No space left on device, df shows 50%
I have done everything I know about, and now I'm completely lost.
I'm getting an error on my Storage partition. The drive is a ntfs, and I'm using ntfs-3g, the disk is being shared between my Windows ...
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Creating bootable NTFS partition on Debian
I have 2 partitions on my hard drive:
first one is ext3 formatted with a Debian installation on it (bootable)
second one is NTFS formatted and was used from a previous Windows installation as ...
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Format as NTFS without Journal
I have a flash drive that I'd like to format for use in Windows. I would like support for symbolic links, so I can't use FAT/FAT32/exFAT.
I would prefer to use the ext4 filesystem and disable ...
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Windows 8 and 7 NTFS drive incompatibility
I have a DELL XPS L702x, which has two 2,5" drive bays. I had a Windows 7 Ultimate on it for near a year, then, when Win8 came to be, i bought another SSD and installed it. Not dual-boot, just pulled ...
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Can I Install Ghost BSD on an NTFS partition?
I have installed ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop. And decided to check out Ghost BSD. Two of my drives are formatted using NTFS so that Windows installation can access.
So i have prepared one of drives ...
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NTFS partition size not recognized after disaster recovery clone
I'm in the middle of a disaster recovery of a 250GB hard disk that was "clicking". Obviously I didn't have a backup copy.
I managed to salvage all the files thanks to GParted Live that was able to ...
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Windows 7 - cannot access my own external disk
I use Windows 7 Home Premium and external USB disk with NTFS partition.
I cannot write-access the my own files on it, even as a member of Admnistrators group!
Is there any way how to go around this ...
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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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How to recove an NTFS hard disk on USB after ScanDisc has hung?
We had an old Laptop (Windows ME) whose only USB device had stopped working. Since the only working drive remained was a floppy drive, I bought an USB house, extracted the hard disk from the PC, put ...
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A raw dump from a corrupted large file
I have a large .rar file inside partion D (Windows7/NTFS). It's corrupted due to bad sector (I think) and when I copy it to another place (External-HDD) the system freezes after 88% of progress. I ...
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Cannot rename a file containing spaces and special characters on NTFS partition from Linux
I have both Windows 7 and Kubuntu installed on a computer. They both have access to a NTFS partition. I don't know how that happened, but I now have a directory containing weird characters: Bases de ...
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Copied a file with winscp; only winscp can see it
I recently copied a 25.5GB file from another machine using WinSCP. I copied it to C:\beth.tar.gz, and WinSCP can still see the file. However no other app (including Explorer) can see the file. What ...
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Removing `sparse` file attribute
The question is a bit broaded:
What's the sparse file attribute on NTFS partitions and how can I remove it?
Using Windows 7 and Windows 8.
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Cant Mount NTFS hdd on ubuntu server
i am trying to mount my NTFS 1.5TB hdd to my ubuntu server running version 12
I use this command
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /dummy
The error i get is this:
Mount is denied because the NTFS volume ...
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Disk size data is inconsistant (more then i can hold)
I have several disk partitions, i made then each 250gb. I used robocopy to copy one partition to another I got an error the destination disk is out of space. wtf they are the same size.
I right ...
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If you reset the password for a user can other users access the EFS encrypted files?
I have a user that's forgotten their password. I can log in and reset it but there were some EFS encrypted files. I can still access those files because my login is the security group.
If I reset ...
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Correcting tree from messed up file tree in NTFS partition
It's a real messed situation, but I'm quite at the end of my options.
It's my personal hardrive, so it's very important for me, and yes, I have no backup =(
The short story:
1) I have two discs. ...
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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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External hard drive FAT32 to NTFS conversion fails
I'm trying to convert the FAT32 file system of an external hard drive to NTFS. Here's what happened:
C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk G:
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume PIETEREXT created ...
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file-name encoding problems
I googled over this topic but couldn't find what I was looking for... the following "happend" to me:
I had my files stored on a NTFS-USB Harddisk, because of space problems I moved them to an ext3 ...
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100% reliable directory copy on Windows systems (NTFS)
Is there a directory copying method for NTFS that can copy a directory 100% accurately, every time, with every single file, sub-directory, permission, attribute, and symbolic link / junction intact ...
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Problems in Linux Mint 13 MATE with NTFS partitions
I'm using Linux Mint 13 MATE (32 bit).
With Caja file manager (based on Nautilus 2.x) I can create, modify and remove folders and files on NTFS partitions whitout problems.
But, for example, when I ...
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View a list of symbolic links on system?
Is there a way to see a list of all the symbolic links that are active on a Windows machine?
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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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“Deny All Permissions to Everyone” doesn't prevent me from deleting a file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to deny delete/modify permission to a file?
The story is pretty simple:
I'm an administrator.
To prevent accidental deletion of a file, I have denied all ...
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Debian Harddrive Fdisk - Same ID's and changing letters
I am trying to create and install a debain NAS and ive been having a hard time because I am new to all of this. I used ntfs-3g in order to automount my 4 NTFS drives. I also have a partitioned ...
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Windows 7 Access denied to Samba Drive
I have a external hard disk that I want to share via samba. I have currently mounted the drive using:
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/Seagate -t ntfs -o uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=000
Currently my ...
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User folder access when dual booting Win7 & Win8
I've got Win7 & Win8 in a dual boot configuration. When I try to access my Win7 User folder from Win8 I get permission errors. I understand that my user accounts in Win7 & Win8 have unique ...
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How can I search my Windows 7 machine for all files with alternate data streams?
I'm interested to see if any files on my system have any ADS (NTFS Alternate Data Stream).
At least the build-in file search on Window 7 Starter doesn't seem to have this option.
Is there a way with ...
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remote symbolic link / junction
Might be a pretty obvious one but have had some trouble finding solid answers.
I have a directory on a windows network share containing different versions of an application. I would like to have a ...
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Find file or directory by NTFS id
Say I receive the following output from chkdsk:
Deleted invalid filename Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (88216) in directory 403737.
Is there any way to find the name(s) of this directory ...
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Recover, reconstruct, rebuild files after NTFS laptop disk crash - root folder and MFT destroyed
My 120GB laptop disk has crashed and is no longer bootable nor readable by Windows.
I was running Windows XP Pro SP3 on it (sole partition).
To save embarrassment let's just say that my last backup ...
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Internal drive does not appear in the Recycle Bin Properties
Windows 2003 Server, 2GB internal NTFS drive. It's not showing on the recycle bin properties. How do I fix this?
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Recover IDE partition in windows xp
I have accidentally delete my partition (Right click to My computer --> Manage). Now when i run some recovery tool, it show me every thing is there.
As i have not formatted the disk or partition so ...
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NTFS frequent corruption when writing many small files, index $I30 error
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate on a laptop with a 500G HDD, and had all partitions formatted as NTFS. I do a lot of programming and LaTeX typesetting, both of these involves a large amount of ...
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NTFS: chkdsk reports 11237 files on empty disk
Ok, there is actually 1 file reported by DIR, and the two directories contain 5 subdirectories. 21 directories if you count . and .. as DIR does. ATTRIB /s /d reports 12 entries, including the ...
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How to hide desktop.ini files without hiding other hidden files/folders?
Is there anyway to hide desktop.ini files, but unhide them when I need them? They get in the way when I'm moving files and such but I do use them so deleting them isn't an option.
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Running projects from NTFS partition on Ubuntu
I'm dual booting Windows 7/Ubuntu 12.04. I want to run C++/Java projects from a NTFS partition, where I keep generally all my files and projects. I fiddled with the fstab. One time I removed 'noexec', ...
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How to access files on a USB-connected NTFS disk removed from a Win7 notebook?
My daughter seems to have fried her motherboard in her Lenovo Notebook. The disk seems to be fine. I removed the disk and used a universal disk-to-USB kit to attach it to another computer. The disk is ...
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Corrupted NTFS Drive showing multiple unallocated partitions
My external hdd with a single NTFS partition was accidentaly plugged out (kids!)... and is now corrupted.
Iv tried running ntfsfix - with no luck - output below..
When I look at the disk under disk ...
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Recover ntfs harddisk with linux
I try to recover data from a windows laptop.
The windows vista would not boot anymore "missing bootmgr" and my attempts on the pc failed. So I removed the drive and plugged it via sata/usb adapter on ...
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Recover lost video file/stream from an NTFS filesystem
I recorded an online video conference using CamStudio. Unfortunately when it reached 4 GB CamStudio suddenly warned me it couldn't save the file (because of its size or something) any more, then ...
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Is there a way to change the permissions of a series of directories on Windows 7 without getting a dialog box when it can't change the rights?
Is there some way to change the permissions recursively on a series of directories without getting a dialog box that pops up and tells me it can't change the permissions on a particular file?
I keep ...
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Unable to mount external hard drive
I have a Western Digital My Passport 2.0 TB and I think I may have had a bad ejection one time when I ejected my hard drive. When I try to plug it in on my ubuntu 12.04 machine, it gives me this ...
