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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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Debian 12 and NTFS permissions

Back in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS I could copy to and from NTFS partitions without problems. Practically all apps had access to everything. Then there was an accident that made me not just upgrade to 22 but ...
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Are Authenticated Users required to be added to NTFS permissions for shared folder?

I am using Server 2019 and am trying to create a shared folder. But I want only certain users to have access to it. So, based on my knowledge (and quick online search), I created a Global Security in ...
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Server 2012R2 - "Access Denied" on drive in Explorer, but can browse by CMD line

I've just done an in-place upgrade of a Hyper-V guest from Windows Server 2008 to Server 2012 R2 (via Server 2012, as direct upgrade from 2008 to 2012 R2 is not supported). Usually one would create a ...
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My Seagate hard disk shows that's is RAW and also show that is 0 bytes

My Seagate hard disk shows that's is RAW and also show that is 0 bytes and in diskpart it shows that it is healthy, when trying to format to NTFS using diskpart it is stuck on 0%.
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NTFS hard disk not detected in Ubuntu

I have a 250GB SATA NTFS hard disk which i am trying to access thru a hard disk dock on my Ubuntu machine but i haven't been successful. Here's what i have done, Used 'dmesg' as directed in this ...
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make NTFS Junction system hidden on Windows

I'm trying to migrate my user profile to a separate partition, and I've got to the point of adding the compatibility system Junctions to the new profile. However I don't want to see them in my profile ...
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How do you defragment the MFT on an NTFS disk?

A while ago, I nearly filled my hard drive, much more than the recommended maximum of 85% of capacity. I believe that NTFS started storing files in the space reserved for the Master File Table (MFT) ...
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Windows disk partiton: Cannot shrink a volume beyond the point where any unmovable files are located

As you can see from the title, im not able to shrink my C drive NTFS partition (My Windows 11) partition. Here are something i tried to solve it: Disable hibernation through powercfg/h off Disable ...
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Reserve minimum space for volume shadow copy

Is it possible to reserve a minimum amount of space used by the volume shadow copies of a given ntfs volume under windows 2008 R2 server? I know how to set the maximum size, but not the minimum. For ...
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how to view hidden files on an NTFS drive that were copied from a Mac?

I have some files on my external NTFS drive that were copied from a Mac using Paragon NTFS. Back in Windows 7, I'm unable to view said files. I believe they exist because they still occupy space on ...
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Run offline scan in chkdsk?

Short form: How do I "run an offline scan" in chkdsk? Details: I'm running Win 11 Pro and trying to examine and possibly resurrect an external NTFS drive which appears to be corrupted. ...
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NTFS Special permissions - List Folder/Read Data and Read Attributes

I applied ntfs special permission "List Folder/Read Data" on a folder that contains a simple text file, now i can open the folder and see the names of files and subdirectories inside the ...
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Create a folder with a name ending with a dot on a NTFS volume in Linux

On Windows, the win32 API seemingly disallows a directory name to end in a dot (.) but according to several questions asked in that direction (e.g. link1, link2), the solution on windows is to specify ...
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How to fix module fuse not found error?

I used to be able to mount a NTFS formatted drive (read only) on my Ubuntu Linux (9.04) Sheevaplug. I was chasing the impossible dream of being able to mount it for both read and write and somehow ...
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Why am I unable to set NTFS permissions on %ProgramFiles%?

Using an Admin user account on Windows Server 2019, I am trying to change NTFS permissions for a user account on %ProgramFiles%, %ProgramFiles(x86)%, and %WinDir%, but I get an access denied error ...
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Create an EXFAT partition on a NTFS external HD

Is it possible to create an exFAT partition on a NTFS external HD? I just wanna backup stuff from an old macbook, so I thought maybe I can just create a new exFAT partition instead of full ...
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Streamlining Bind Mounting for User Folders between Windows 10 and MX Linux 23.2

I've successfully configured a shared partition between Windows 10 and MX Linux 23.2, ensuring strict mapping of user accounts in both operating systems. Steps such as creating the ntfs-formatted ...
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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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Formating to exFAT (FAT64) w/o losing data

I recently got a macbook air and I'm trying to make my external HDD to work with it. OSX supports reading from NTFS but unfortunately it doesn't allow writing. I need my files to be accessible on any ...
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Recovering NTFS / GPT partition after failed "Automatic Repair". Now shows as "RAW" in diskpart

My Wife's Windows 10 laptop seems to have suffered some critical failure on her primary system drive (c:). I didn't loose the whole disk since I'm able to get into WinRE and spawn a WinPE shell from ...
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HDD missing space until reboot

I have a non-system HDD in my computer. There is no hibernation, pagefile, backup, volume shadow set up on that HDD. Recycle bin is empty. The OS is Windows 8.1 the disk is NTFS. I downloaded some ...
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How to open files with colons in their names in Windows?

I have some files on my C drive with colons in their names. I'm pretty sure they were created in some Linux distro I used before. I know Linux supports colons in file names, while Windows does not. ...
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ExFAT is good for flash drives only or it also gives benefits on external HDD, instead of NTFS?

I have external HDD that around 7 years old and decided to reformat it. I heard that exFAT is good for flash drives and keeps sectors alive longer, do this applies for external hard drive also? Any ...
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Windows does not mount USB NTFS superfloppy

I have a Transcend Storejet external USB hard disk. This is not an SSD, but a mechanical disk with rotating plates. I have formatted the whole disk, without partitioning, as NTFS. I have used mkntfs ...
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Is it possible to recover files on NTFS after writing to the same directory?

I've accidentally deleted a couple of .tex and .pdf files. The files were stored under C:\Users\Name\Desktop\notes on my laptop's SSD. I'm using a Windows 11 Pro. It seems like this happened about a ...
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How to prevent massive fragmentation when copying large files to NTFS HDD?

I have some virtual machines, and for example the first one I'm looking at is 89gb. Unfortunately when I try to copy it to a new drive it forms around 100,000 fragments (more than 1 per mb.) I don't ...
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How to write a localized NTFS boot sector?

Little unknown fact: NTFS boot sectors come in different languages. They can say "BOOTMGR is missing" and "Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart", but they can also say the same thing in other languages. This ...
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How to create and format a partition using a Bash script?

Is there any way to create and format a partition using a Bash script? I think it can be done with fdisk but I don't know how to feed commands from the Bash script into the fdisk shell and then exit ...
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When a folder is encrypted in Windows, where is the encryption data/keys stored?

I have an encrypted folder in Windows. Presumably there must be a key stored somewhere to access the data. Where exactly is the key stored? If in the registry, where in the registry? I have an ...
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What does "$DATA (nonresident)" mean?

There was a blackout in my home and my computer's hard drives' filesystems were corrupted. I checked the system files and the hardware, and found no problem. But I did the stupid thing of running ...
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How to identify file by "File Record Segment"?

How to actually identify files by "File Record Segment" addresses as reported by chkdsk? There was a blackout and my drives' filesystems were corrupted, the hardware and operating system ...
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How to see all files affected by chkdsk?

A few weeks ago my home lost power while my computer is on. Recently I have encountered some problems. So I did a full system check, I used SeaTools for Windows and all drives passed S.M.A.R.T check, ...
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partclone, ntfsclone, partimage, G4L: compatibility and feature set

I have a very specific use case for which I am looking into Linux-based backup solutions that can be used to back up (not necessarily clone) and restore a Windows system (XP through 8.1 must be ...
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Does NTFS write files two times when compression is used?

I've read in this answer https://superuser.com/a/1358858/1506333 that NTFS does double writes, uncompressed data first, then compressed, is it true? Motive Nº1: It will kill SSD much faster, since it ...
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NTFS compression on SSD - ups and downs

This topic discusses NTFS compression on HDDs as a method of improving disk access performance, and concludes that it's poor at that more often than not. But I have always viewed compression as a way ...
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Formatting 500gb HDD NTFS to FAT32 then returns: The volume is too big for FAT32

I got the same error message as this post and it also took me 6 hours to wait for that process to finish. But now, I already understand a little why the problem occurs after reading the answer from ...
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Export UNC path NTFS permissions to CSV file

I need to export UNC path NTFS permissions on a Windows Server 2008, the only way I found possible so far is "wmic /node:rhea share get name,path" this will provide me with the share and ...
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How do you enable NTFS compression across all drives?

How do I enable NTFS compression for each of my drives? Currently it is available on my C: NVMe, E: SATA SSD, and my K: HDD but the drives I actually want to compress are not able. K: drive able to be ...
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Get the default cluster size for NTFS

I try to determine the default cluster size for NTFS. I check this table. The problem is when the size in the boundary, for example: 2 TB–16 TB: 4kb 16TB–32 TB: 8kb Then what will be the cluster size ...
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NTFS external hard drive formatted on Linux is not recognized by Windows

I fully formatted a hard drive in NTFS on Linux from a completely empty (zeroed) drive and it is not recognized by Windows 10. It is not listed in the Windows File Explorer nor with the fsutil fsinfo ...
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NTFS get the MFT entry by the record id in $DATA attribute list

I'm trying to code a simple NTFS parser in C and in this video explains that in attribute list $DATA, there is a file record id, this is an unique id in the MFT table that identifies the entry, he ...
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NTFS Compression by file extension

Can I enable NTFS compression on a disk, based on file extension? I mean, that I don't want these files compressed: *.hc, *.mkv, *.mp4, *.ogg, *.7z, *.zip, *.odt, *.docx, *.png, *.jpg but I want these ...
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Thousands of bad clusters discovered by chkdsk on external HDD

2 days ago, during download, uTorrent started to throw CRC error (write), i resumed failing download multiple times with no luck(same error appeared again and again just in few seconds/minutes), then ...
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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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Remove My Documents junction points?

AT home, I have a few notebooks of different vendors. All have Windows 7. On a few of them, there are NTFS junction points in my home directory. For example: C:\Users\xxx\Anwendungsdaten (...
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Restore "Unknown" Partition To ntfs

I'm using Fedora. I don't know why my NTFS (/dev/sda3) partition is changed to "Unknown". I can't read this partition. My important files are located in there and I have to change it back to ntfs ...
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Why can't I create sparse files on my NTFS partition under Linux?

I have a very large sparse file on an EXT4 partition, and I want to copy that file to an NTFS partition. The file has a size of about 2 TB, but since it is a sparse file it uses only 700 GB on disk. ...
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Changed "partition type" to EFI GPT accidently when default WAS Intel using TESTDISK

So i was trying to recover a failing drive by doing some tests. This drive was connected externally. After some trial and errors - I decided to 'write changes' after going into the EFI GPT category ...
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Convert drive from exFAT to NTFS without losing contents (Workaround)

I have a 5TB external drive with about 200GB of data in it. I want to convert it from exFAT to NTFS but without losing its contents. Currently I have no way to backup the data on the drive, so I need ...
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Does changing a NTFS readonly attribute rewrite the file?

Does changing a NTFS readonly attribute rewrite the file? I used this command to set readonly in every file recursively: Get-ChildItem -Path "D:\Alphabetic\W-Z\XYZ" -File -Recurse | foreach {...

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