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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Windows doesn't recognize a partition as NTFS but recovery tools do
Today a computer of mine with Windows Vista can't boot any more. The message "Windows is starting" shows up and a few seconds later it reboots automatically.
So I took the HDD out and ...
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How do I merge C and D drive if there's boot and recovery partition between them? [closed]
Is it possible?
I've seen a similar question which was unanswered so my hopes are low.
How can I merge two partitions. One being primary C: and other being E:. One is in between. Recovery partition
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Calculating MFT for NTFS based Dynamic vhd
I am trying to calculate MFT offset from master boot section of NTFS filesystem of Dynamic VHD. The Little Endian cluster location of this Dynamic VHD MFT is highlighted:
which is then further ...
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safely interrupt ntfs-3g write stuck at less than 100kB/s
I'm trying to copy about 20 GB of data, some big files and some directories with many small files, from my laptop to an NTFS formatted hard drive in my desktop on the same network. I figured just ...
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Cannot enable NTFS compression on a 18TB HDD
When I had my 18TB drive filled I noticed I could not enable NTFS compression because the function was grayed out. I followed the directions here "Compress contents to save disk space" ...
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Partition is not accessible in WinXP after being used in RAID 1 under Ubuntu
I have created a RAID 1 array under Ubuntu using mdadm. I used the manual at this link: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-raid-arrays-with-mdadm-on-ubuntu-16-04
I created ...
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Disk operations hang after deleting folder on large NTFS volume
We have a customer system where a disk is completely inaccessible for a long time after deleting files. Typically, the disk is inaccessible for more than 45 minutes.
The system is a production system ...
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Linux claims half full NTFS external drive is out of space
I've got an external 5TB hard drive formatted as NTFS and mounted in Linux.
When I run df I get this info on the drive:
/dev/sdd1 4883735548 2398731656 2485003892 50% /media/me/DRIVE0
I also ...
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Why is Windows 11 accessing $BitMap, $Mft and $LogFile file on hard drive during idle?
I have a spinning hard drive which I use only for backup. The hard drive is noisy (as most spinning disks are), but normally it turns itself off during inactivity and produces no sound, which is what ...
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NTFS compression error on server 2016 with /EXE
I'm trying to transparently compress some files using the compact utility on my file server. These files are basically text backups, and compress easily at 10:1 or higher.
They are rarely read and ...
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Allow owner to read and create files, but not change or delete (mounted ntfs partition)
I would like to:
mount my ntfs partition (fstab or mount)
configure what is necessary...
then what I expect:
rm "file_that_existed_before_I_mounted_the_partition" # fails, deletion is not ...
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Deleting files doesn't free up disk space, but did increase $BadClus by the file size
System: Windows 11, externally mounted 8TB HDD WD disk NTFS
Used TreeSize Duplicate Search (Jam Software), then deleted some files with the option "Move to Recycle Bin (if available)" turned ...
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Fixing "Bad Sectors" found during External HDD Formatting, Windows 10 CMD Prompt
I recently was trying to reformat a external 3TB WD MyBook (USB) via Windows Command Line
I used the command
C:\WINDOWS\system32>format g: /FS:NTFS /X
and received the following output
The type ...
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How does Logical Cluster Number to LBA translation happen in NTFS?
I'm reading about NTFS, and I found out that NTFS uses LCN (Logical Cluster Number) addresses for files. The information about data blocks are stored in the FCB of the file which is located in MFT.
As ...
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How can I find out which sectors are used by files on NTFS?
I'm recovering data from a failing hard drive using ddrescue. It's a 2TB disk, NTFS filesystem, but only about 200GB or so is actually used, so rescuing it in its entirety would be a big ol' waste of ...
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All NTFS volumes on drive turning inaccessible at the same time
On Windows 10 I was browsing one of three NTFS partitions on an external USB drive. After a reboot none of the NTFS volumes on the drive are accessible, as in "can't even run chkdsk/damaged file ...
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Windows 11: Find and Grant read Permission for Unreadable files
I'm using WinDirStat to see how my hard drive is being used. I see 9.2 GB marked as <Unknown>. I'm assuming these are files which my Windows user can't read. I'm an administrator, and the hard ...
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How to recover file system access after losing non-mirrored MFT records?
After I unplugged my external drive after a phony safe removal on Ubuntu, two sectors are destroyed. The important sector contained records 4 to 7 (which is $AttrDef, $ (root), $Bitmap and $Boot) of ...
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Is it safe to delete a file that is reportedly bigger than it should be
After calling unrar on a RAR archive on my 1 TB NTFS drive, I am left with a file, that reportedly has a size of 86T.
Is it safe to delete such file? What is the best way to safely get rid of this ...
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Is there a way to make changes to an NTFS hard-linked file be written to a new file?
A single NTFS file can be "hard linked" to multiple directory entries; all the directory entries (e.g. A, B, C) point to the same data. If a change is made to this single file (e.g. A), all ...
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Why the location for Partition entry in MBR doesn't contain partition entry?
I'm learning file system recently. wikipedia says the partition table is located at 0x01BE, but when I check my USB drive(NTFS) by a binary tool, there are some words there "Press Ctrl + Alt + ...
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How to convert NTFS to ext file system without loosing data in zeroin os
I was using windows 11 and switched to Zeroin OS
I have 2 hard disk on my pc
1- Agile 240 GB SSD
2 WD 2 TB HDD (It was having two partition on windows but now showing only one)
After switching from ...
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Confusion about NTFS compression and `du` on ZFS (was: How to *really* disable NTFS compression?)
I am using ZFS with compression+dedup on my host system and use Qemu/KVM for virtualization. I wanted to let ZFS do it's job and disable Windows 10's NTFS compression feature (both, CompactOS and NTFS ...
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Crystal Disk Info, SSD. NTFS corrupted
My 128GB SSD is configured in RAID1. According to the technical specs it has 100TBW. Total host writes is now more then 150 000GB. The filesystem is getting corrupted all the time.
I think this SSD is ...
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Windows equivalent of Linux fallocate cmdline tool
Is there a (free) Windows commandline program to allocate (that is, reserve) arbitrary space in a NTFS filesystem to an arbitrary filename without actually writing to that space ?
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Is there any reason to keep the (new) default of LastAccessTime being updated?
AFAIK the new default for Windows 10 and 11 is to update file LastAccessTimes.
This seems to be a bad idea as it thrashes SSDs and serves no useful purpose.
But perhaps I'm wrong. So, is there any ...
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Why do the "<" and ">" characters seem to corrupt Windows folders?
I was watching FlyTech's video, and when he made a pair illegal folders (one named "<" and the other named ">"), it made Windows think the folder containing them was ...
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Recovering GPT table after failed volume merge
Background.
I shucked a 14TB wd drive. I didn't realize it was exFAT and I wanted NTFS security features (for what it's worth). Upon finding out exFAT was hard to convert and I only had 1.3TB used (I ...
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Why does Windows 10 only offer to format my memstick to NTFS (not eXFAT)?
I have a 128 GB memory stick which shipped with a exFAT-formatted file system.
But when I try to reformat it (context menu properties in File Explorer), it only offers to format to NTFS with no other ...
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Windows program level permissions to write to a volume
I'm using a windows machine in AWS which has an FSX volume mounted. I'd like the volume to be read-only for all processes save for ones from a specific downloading application, which would have read ...
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Wiped and Reformatted external hard drive says it is completely full and windows cannot access it
I had a 1TB external HDD that developed an unresponsive folder. I used the errors checking tool on the properties tool tab, and that repaired the folder. I then moved the data off to a replacement ...
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Is it worth switching from NTFS to ZFS or Btrfs to prevent silent data corruption?
I have 4 external hard drives.
Two of them are formatted to ext4 because I was a linux user, and the rest two to NTFS.
I read somewhere that data on hard drives would be corrupted before we knew it,
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Can we merge a dynamic volume made of 2 partitions to make 1 regular NTFS partition?
I had unused space between two partitions, and I decided to do "Extend volume" in the Windows disk management tool. It works, and now E:\ uses two partitions (dynamic disk):
Problem: since ...
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Disk stops to respond completely on top folder read
This was an unusual failure not exactly similar to typical cases, it started when a simple folder rename on disk completely froze responsible process with later stable symptoms:
When HDD was ...
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Files copied from one NTFS disk to another are not visible, but only on one machine
I used my Win10 desktop to copy data from my NTFS disk to a new one (where Windows 10 was already installed). I copied just some files, and not a while partition. I've put the files in c:\data.
Then I'...
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What is $MFT file and can the size be reduced?
I use WizTree to check why my disk space is shrinking without reason, and I found that there is this $MFT (hidden) file, which consumes 8++ GB.
What is this? And is there anyway I can reduce the size ...
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does files on ntfs have uid and gid?
I see that NTFS files have SID.But I'm using ntfs-3g user mapping, I'm able to map UID to SID of NTFS file but unable to find windows GID of the NTFS file. Does windows NTFS files have a GID?
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Incremental copy of log file content
I have a couple of log-files, growing one line at a time, as log files do.
The files are available via SMB network share.
I want to periodically copy these files. Since the network is rather slow and ...
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Does CHKDSK /R overwrite unused space?
This may seem like an odd question but I was wondering if "chkdsk /r" overwrites all the unused space on a target volume. I understand that the purpose of "chkdsk" is simply to ...
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Windows recovery show disks as RAW, can't run CHKDSK, but Linux sees them normally
My disk is dying (increasing Reallocated Sectors Count) but every time CHKDSK fixed everything untill next time and I'd like to continue like this as long as possible, given that I know all risks and ...
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Folder size in k4dirstat less than folder contents
It is happening in ntfs partition. What's is the cause?
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Symlink or Drive Letter for Remote Network Shares?
What differences exist, conceptually and operationally, between (a) drive letters and (b) directory symbolic links in Windows 10, where the target is a remote network share (or a directory within a ...
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Git clone failed on Windows due to file name length
I'm trying to clone a Git repository on a Windows machine that has an NTFS volume.
Unfortunately I get several errors:
error: unable to create file (...) Filename too long
The files in question are ...
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Make a Windows Junction Link point to other directory without removing it and creating it again
I have a Windows Junction Link which points to directory A. Now I want it to point to directory B.
Currently I delete the junction link pointing to A and then I create a new one pointing to B.
Initial ...
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What to do when VeraCrypt "Repair Filesystem" literally takes forever and blocks you from working?
Update (I'm the poster who has lost access to the account): The command "WMIC diskdrive get Status,Model" claims that the "health" of the disk is "OK". But File Explorer ...
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Recover an NTFS filesystem accidentally over-formatted with FAT - getting the filesystem back?
I accidentally FAT formatted a NTFS partition, and now it shows up as an empty FAT-partition. I'm thinking much should be recoverable, since AFAIK NTFS puts much of the important stuff towards the ...
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Fix corrupted ntfs drive to save files [duplicate]
i have a ntfs drive that i often use on a mac, so i was trying to make it writable and followed several online tips.
inside etc/fstab/ there was a line LABEL=Untitled none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse but ...
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Unable to detect NTFS partitions on Linux
I have Windows and Ubuntu installed on a SSD and my other data on a separate HDD. Ubuntu (and Fedora before this) does not detect the NTFS partitions on the SSD. The disk does show up in GParted and ...
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Cannot mount image of NTFS partition recovered through ddrescue
The hard drive on my laptop has been giving me read errors, so I decided to back up the data on it.
I decided to use ddrescue to recover the data on the main NTFS partition. I first created a ...
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Why are same-drive relative-path symlinks created with non-Admin WSL under a drvfs mountpoint inaccessible in Windows?
When I try to use the same-drive, relative-path NTFS symlink I created with WSL under a Windows drive / drvfs mountpoint on the Windows side, I get error that it is inaccessible. The symlink has the ...
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