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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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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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ntfsdecrypt - Key does not have an EFS purpose OID

I'm trying to copy EFS-encrypted files from an NTFS partition using: ntfsdecrypt -k mycert.pfx /dev/sda2 -i 32768 and I get: Key does not have an EFS purpose OID Failed to extract the private RSA key....
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How To Create 'Transparent' or 'Undetectable' Symbolic Links With NTFS?

I'm currently using three 'cloud' services (Google Drive, Dropbox and SkyDrive). However, they are not very customizable; I've been unable to set all three services to sync the same local folder. ...
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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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Increase Windows disk write-cache size

On my 32gb system, the maximum disk cache size used appears to be around 3.8gb, as observed in task manager as "Modified" memory, whilst under heavy write load. This seems underpowered to me ...
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Why is my newly formatted (NTFS) 4 TB external hard drive has a Total Reserved Clusters of 4.7 GB?

I just bought a new external HDD (WD My Book 4 TB, it's my 3rd of the 4 TB variant). As per usual, I formatted it using NTFS with 4KB cluster size because I'm using Windows 10, but then when I checked ...
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Copying files of Windows partition using rsync gives readlink_stat(...) Input/output error (5)

I want to copy all files of a Windows 10 system partition (NTFS) to another partition (NTFS). I am using rsync under Ubuntu like this: sudo rsync -axHAWXS --numeric-ids /media/windows /mnt/windows-...
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Size on disk way bigger than expected

I have read Why is there such a big difference between "Size" and "Size on disk"? but why is mine so different? My RAID5 is set at 128kb stripe, the volume is formatted at 64kb NTFS. I would expect ...
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"Access is denied" to Admin when using Sysinternals Contig to defrag the $LogFile metadata file

I have folders with hundreds of thousands, to over a million files and subfolders in each parent. I'm reading that the NTFS log file may be responsible for slow file creation and other actions. How ...
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UEFI bootloader

Issue is that EFI systems only allow you to boot using FAT32. I have to deploy multiple images of Windows 8. My WIM image is larger than 4GB and unable to transfer to a FAT32 partition. I've been ...
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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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Windows 7 NTFS Symbolic Link - Network Share Availability/Timeout

In Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, is there a way to quickly detect if the target of a symbolic link is available? For example, a symbolic link is created to a remote share UNC using the ...
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Input/output error in OS X but not Linux on NTFS external hard drive

My external hard drive contains a directory. On my Mac I can't see this folder, neither in Finder nor with ls -la. But I know that it exists, since there is no problem with it on Linux. Because I'm ...
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Master File Table corrupt, any way to save data?

I've used search, but none of the results match my problem so I didn't have to ask separate question. I've installed Windows 7 RTM recently and since then partitions located on one of my HDDs have ...
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Accidentally removed own NTFS rights from volume in Windows 7

I am using Windows 7 and my hard drive is partitioned to C: and D: drives. Yesterday I tried to limit some permissions for other users to volume D and accidentally denied everything for group "Users" ...
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What is the difference between NTFS LFS version 2.0 and 1.1?

I have two external hard disk drives with the same make/model/capacity WD100EMAZ, and have quick formatted both with a cluster size of 64KB and NTFS. Oddly, I get a different LFS Version on each ...
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FFMPEG Permission denied on file in NTFS

FFMPEG won't read a file on my NFTS partition, even with sudo, giving the error "Permission denied". Something to do with whitelist and crypto? Full log: $ cp a.mp3 b.mp3 $ ls -l ?.mp3 -rwxrwxrwx 1 ...
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Unable to mount external hard drive, any information is very slow

I have used a My Passport 2Tera for 2 years and it suddenly it runs very slow (around 10 minutes until windows mount it and 1-2 minutes to list a folder content). I've seen some similar issues and ...
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What's going on with this reparse point created by mklink?

Here's some odd behavior I encountered with mklink which ships in Windows since Vista. I suspect if may be a defect in mklink or even as deep as the NTFS file system driver, but the behavior could use ...
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Deleting or copying file: File to big for destination file system

I've got a Windows 10 pc, with an internal (S:/) and external (I:/) hdd. Both are formatted to NTFS. I've made copies using bvckup 2 in the past. Today I found a small error for copying new files to, ...
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CHKDSK fails in Windows 10 but ok in Windows 7

I have an old SSHD (Hybrid) 2.5" drive from my old Macbook which I wanted to reuse. So I decided to backup its NTFS volumes on Windows 10 Home but when I mounted it complained that it needed to check ...
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What tasks should you perform when you transplant an NTFS drive?

I recently asked this question: Recycle bin on transplanted drive And it got me thinking: What other housecleaning sorts of tasks should you perform before and after you transplant an NTFS drive to ...
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Windows Explorer's "New > File" menu won't display without "Write Attributes" permission for the folder

In Windows Explorer, a folder's context menu only displays the New > File options if the Write Attributes permission has been granted on the folder. However when using another application such as ...
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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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Copying files from ext4 to NTFS

I am trying to copy some files from an Ubuntu-based (ext4) external drive I have to my NTFS external drive. I opened up ext4 hard drive in Windows (it's read only) and started copy / pasting to NTFS. ...
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Shrinking NTFS partition: numerical result out of range error

I have a NTFS partition on my 2TB hard disk. Currently it is 1.7TB big, and there's some unallocated space to the right of it of about 100GB. There are no other partitions on the disk. I would like ...
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How can I view an "EA Record" (presumably part of the MFT in NTFS)?

I recently ran into a situation where a failing USB hub caused an external hard drive to not "safely disconnect." In the process of repairing the drive to avoid having Windows see it as a RAW ...
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Mounting Safecopy Image in Kali (Or any other OS)

I've been trying furiously for about 2 to 3 weeks to get the data off this drive. And I've had lots of learning while I've done it. However I still am with no data. I have used SafeCopy to make a copy ...
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What does a "Copy/Cut & Paste" operation exactly consist of?

I understand the purpose of these operations. What I'd like to know is 1.What happens at the File System Level ? Does a new MFT entry for the copy get created in the destination volume's MFT and ...
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Attempting to install Windows 8.1 as secondary OS, misdetects EFI partition

Currently I have Arch Linux installed as my primary OS, and wish to install Windows 8.1 as a secondary so I may utilize certain special hardware (a capture card which has no Linux drivers at the ...
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Decrypt EFS-encrypted file (I do have certificate backup)

I have an encrypted folder on a Windows 8 machine, which was encrypted by another user-account (which I cannot boot into due to a corrupted profile). But I do have the private-key backup certificate ...
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Windows 8.1 fails to optimize System Reserved partition

I have Windows 8.1 Professional x64 running from a 256GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD. Windows has divided the drive in to two partitions: System Reserved (350MB NTFS) C: (238.13GB NTFS) Whenever Windows ...
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Do not allow locking read only files by network

I have shared a folder with read-only access rights. But if someone is using files from this folder, I can not delete these files, because they are locked. Is there any way to prevent read-only users ...
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Safe option to handle NTFS on Mac

What are the risks associated with the following methods and which one is the less likely to damage the OS or the drive? Tuxera/Paragon OSX "native" NTFS support (via terminal tweak) Windows Virtual ...
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What's going on with the disk space usage here?

I have a process where I am removing BLOBs from a DB and writing them to a file structure on disk. I have a 1TB disk, with a single folder in the root, and a structure similar to: F:\RootFolder\...
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Change windows files permissions from Ubuntu

I need to change a windows file permissions from Ubuntu, I found that article about it https://askubuntu.com/questions/195464/how-to-change-file-permission-from-ubuntu-wubi-install I did change that ...
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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 reading/...
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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 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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Is it possible to create or store a Windows backup system image on a non-NTFS drive?

I'm trying to use Windows Backup on Windows 7 to create a system image to a network location. The destination, identified by UNC path, is an Apple Time Capsule formatted with HFS+. While Windows ...
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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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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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No space left on device in Linux although enough disk space and inode available

I ran into this problem when copying a lot of files using tar -cf - * | (cd ../bar; tar -xf - ); I did search on the issue, and found the below suggestions, none of which worked for me. This problem ...
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Reason and functioning of split NTFS permissions

On a fresh formatted non-system NTFS volume of type hard disk media (unpartitionable USB thumb drive is different) under Windows 10, the NTFS ACEs are as follows (Get-Acl): FileSystemRights : -...
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Why does CHKDSK find file system errors after formatting a disk?

I'm having trouble copy data to a brand new disk. I don't know yet if this is the result of the tools I've used, sequence of events during copying, or some issue with the files prior to being copied. ...
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Moving files on NTFS reveals multiple conflicting versions

I just want to understand how this could have happened, apologies if this is not the correct question format. I tried moving a large folder from one NTFS partition to another. The process was briefly ...
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Windows 7 Extend Main Partition Not allowed

UPDATE  I have changed this SSD to "dynamic disk" https://superuser.com/a/1080796/1074900 merged the 70 GB Other NTFS partition to the 10 GB Unallocated space than restarted the machine ...
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fixing ntfs partition after ddrescue

I had some really slow disk access and determined my disk was unhealthy. I was still able to see file contents and use most of the drive contents in Windows, but a few files were inaccessible. This ...
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Removing a folder from File Explorer that no longer exists on the file system

I uninstalled an application using the product's official MSI package, it worked as expected but seems to have left a 'phantom' folder behind which is blocking my next installation. I'm 99% sure I ...
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NTFS seagate ST31000528AS drive can be accessed from various linux distributions but not from Windows

This a windows 7 NTFS system drive that stopped booting windows.When seen from a windows repair boot DVD it appears as RAW.Seagate diagnostics (Seatools) Fails at 10% of simple diagnostics.BUT various ...
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