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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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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Recovered partition reports 0 bytes of free space
First of all, I am certain there is free space o the drive, and on Linux the free space shows up correctly.
So, here's what happened. I noticed that one of my hard drives still has windows boot and ...
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Trying to Mount external USB drive with NTFS partition in WSL, I get error 19
I'm Trying to mount an NTFS partition in WSL. But when I'm following the procedure described in Microsoft Docs
wsl --mount <DiskPath> --partition 2
in wsl I get the following error:
ERROR: ...
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Repairing ACL on Windows drive
Few days before I installed Ubuntu MATE edition. System was very unstable and crashing so I deleted it, but before that something weird happened.
Im tried to access one pdf file located on Windows 10 ...
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Cannot copy large VirtualBox image from local NTFS disk
I have a large (15.7 Gigabyte) VM image that I want to backup from my laptop.
It resides on a NTFS partition (windows 7; 64bit).
When I'm trying to copy the file using the "Windows Explorer",...
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WoeUSB error when writing to disk
I'm getting this error when I try to write a Windows 10 ISO file onto my 32GB USB:
Installation failed!
Exit code: 256
Log:
WoeUSB v3.3.1
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Mounting source filesystem...
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Windows permission: Unable to create file despite having permission
I have a directory that have the same NTFS permission as another. But I cannot create any file in it while I can in the other one. However, anything else seems to be normal, I can modify existing ...
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How do I recover data on a usb drive that was partially overwritten by the linux dd command?
I was trying to burn an iso image to a DVD with the command:
sudo dd if=/path/to/iso.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k status=progress
However, I ended up overwriting about 1.4 GB on my USB drive which had ...
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Making a Windows Folder Truly Read Only
I have an external hard drive. One of the root folders has the subfolders and files I want to protect. There are up to two levels of sub folders within this root folder. I want to set the permissions ...
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How to uncover drive status with Bash script?
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Ubuntu 20.04.4
GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
In a bash script, how to state a directory
like (/home/u3/Music/x) and get:
Partition Type and
File system
for that drive
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How to mount NTFS in Linux without root password
I want to mount/umount a 3rd hard disk (with a NTFS filesystem) under Linux (OpenSuse (Leap15.2)) only as needed and as a normal user. But without entering my root password every time. So far I have ...
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Moving the Recovery Partition, EFI System Partition, and a 16mb "Reserved Partition" to resize Windows partition
This is my first question, so please let me know if I'm missing something.
Long story short, I messed up one of my Windows 10 installation on another SSD and ended up with a Windows system drive too ...
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restore data on external disk after windows repair
Here is an issue my friend faced:
He has an external hard drive NTFS formatted. First he was putting photos to it using MacBook. Then he was putting photos using Ubuntu laptop. Then he moved to a ...
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How to create a file (placeholder?) with nonzero (>1k) size but 0 size on disk, on windows? [duplicate]
Just like a file that is "online-only" in dropbox, which shows its original size in the ntfs system, at the same time 0 bytes on disk?
I am aware that if the file size is smaller than 1k ...
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NTFS, chkdsk, check bad sectors and recover readable parts for only specified files?
It is a large disk and it seems all files but a few are readable. For the few files, reading fails at the same point. Something like position 1.5GB of a 5GB file. The SMART data does show ...
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Folder icon, desktop.ini and file attributes
When we set custom icons for folders, a desktop.ini file will be generated in it with the following structure:
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconResource=${path to the icon file},0
[ViewState]
Mode=
Vid=
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How to delete fake bad sectors from hard disk?
I have a portable 5TB HDD. I was downloading data on it and it was 3/4 (or so, almost full) full with documents.
I did chkdsk /f /v /r /x just to check it. It was shown to be perfect in HDD Sentinel ...
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What exactly does NTFS compression do to files?
Until not so long ago, I've not even known that you could compress specific folders, files or even entire drives using windows' builtin compression. A simple way to do this is just go to properties ...
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Data repair for a FAT32 drive that failed dynamic conversion to NTFS
I used this command
"CONVERT F: /FS:NTFS".
where F: is a 1Tb FAT32 formatted drive. Process hung and had to close it. After that my files sizes remained same but they were corrupt & ...
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Cannot delete junction as admin
I have a junction point in Windows 11 which points to a deleted folder, and I cannot delete it in any way. takeown reports success takin ownership, but then neither rmdir nor fsutil reparsepoint ...
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Allow users to edit files in a folder but not create new ones
I am trying to restrict file creation in a particular NTFS shared folder containing .xlsx files.
We need users to be able to still edit and save the existing files.
So far, I have tried setting ...
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Unable to mount BitLocker 2 encrypted NTFS partition using the new `ntfs3` driver found in Linux 5.15 Kernel
I made a fresh installation of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which comes with the new ntfs3 driver
$ uname -a
Linux HRK-HPZBOOK 5.15.0-27-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 14 04:55:28 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 ...
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USB flash drive doesn't work properly after making it bootable
I burned Raspbian buster lite on my USB drive.
Now I can only use it as storage.
I can see the USB flash drive and I can copy on it, but it doesn't accept any burning tool anymore.
What I have tried:
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How to access Windows ntfs ea/extended attributes under Linux or Windows? Or convert Volfs to DrvFs past version 1903?
I accidentally deregistered the legacy wsl1 install at %APPDATA%\local\lxss (back at the time when wsl was called bash on Ubuntu on Windows and there could be only 1 rootfs which had to be installed ...
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How to restrict the system account of a specific windows system from accessing a drive
I installed two windows 10 operating systems on my computer. For some reason, I don't want the system account of one of the windows operating systems to modify the files on this disk, and I don't want ...
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How to best apply compression in Windows to speed up a slow disk with a powerful CPU?
I have a desktop PC with a reasonably powerful Ryzen 3700X (8c/16t) that runs Linux. I need to occasionally use Windows, but not often enough to justify dual-booting. I have instead installed Windows ...
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File deletion on NTFS vs ext4
How does deletion of files on NTFS compare to deletion on ext4 in terms of basic methodology?
This may be too broad of a question, so alternatively, I was looking at the Veracrypt docs
On Windows, ...
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Check progress on NTFS compression
I have a NTFS disk with compression enabled and moved a couple of files (300gb~) to it.
Every time I refresh the windows explorer window I see that the free space on the disk is growing, which I ...
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Recover files from HDD with partition type unrecognized and boot sector that can't be read [duplicate]
I was trying to retrieve data from an old (9 year old) HDD, which was working fine a month ago, after leaving powered off for a month. When I turned on my Windows PC on, it took a long while to boot [...
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NTFS with UserMapping under Debian (LMDE 5)
I've a dual boot system with Windows 10 and LMDE 5.
I'd like to setup file permissions correctly when mounting windows NTFS partitions.
The .NTFS-3G/UserMapping was created correctly.
When using sudo ...
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Can't convert a RAW SD card(MBR formatted) to NTFS or any other windows readable file system
I want to convert my RAW sd card to NTFS or FAT32 file system. I tried using diskpart and tons of other third party tools to recover it but my sd card is partitioned MBR style and I believe diskpart ...
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How to recover partitions?
my partitions are lost and my datas are also lost when I use ntfsfix on my hard drive. For the partition table like this:
sdb disk
└─sdb1 unallocated
└─sdb5 /DATA1
└─sdb6 /...
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Any way to bypass/restore HDD sector count [duplicate]
I have a WDBU6Y0020BBK external hard disk which recently died for no apparent reason. It was making no strange noises, had no reported SMART issues last time I checked, and wasn't even that old. ...
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How to Manage SSH Key Permission in NTFS When Sharing Among Multiple System
I often work with remote hosts on multiple devices, mostly Windows and Linux machines. To avoid deploying my SSH keys everywhere, and circumvent the hassle of syncing SSH configuration, I put my SSH ...
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How can I create a hard link to a directory in Windows? [duplicate]
A comment at How to create a directory hard link in Windows? states it is "technically possible" to create a hard link to a directory, but so far I have not found anything about how to ...
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What features of journaling file systems are actually useful? [closed]
Not concerning about permissions, security, seamless usage with different OS. Journaling remains unclear.
Do I need journaling (how exactly will it help)? If yes/no what is the threshold, when I ...
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Reproducing folder named *
The question Folder named * was brought to my attention. I thought I could easily reproduce this by taking Git Bash and entering
mkdir \*
At first I didn't look closely, I just saw a folder appear in ...
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Folder named '*'
Browsing old hard drives I came across this folder named *:
I cannot open, access or rename it from Windows.
I have tried accessing it through Moba Xterm, where I get
ls -l
ls: ./*: No such file or ...
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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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chkdsk on mounted NTFS partition
I have mounted NTFS partition as Folder on c:\windows\NTFS folder.
How do I perform a chkdsk on the mounted NTFS partition?
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Does Windows send TRIM command with every delete?
I understand the concept behind TRIM. I know you can schedule TRIM through the "optimization schedule" part of "defragment and optimize drives". But does Windows send a TRIM ...
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Accessing multi partition USB hard drive on MacOS
I'm having problem accessing a healthy USB hard drive on MacOS. The HD is specially partitioned to have
EFI
5T ExFat
diskutil list output
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
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NTFS Sectors per Cluster for 2MB cluster size
Formatted a disk partition using DiskGenius for NTFS with (maximum) cluster size of 2048KB (2MB). I notice Windows itself also can format NTFS with this cluster size in Disk Management. This setting ...
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Why is the default allocation unit size smaller (2048 bytes) for exFAT than for NTFS (4096 bytes) when formatting a disk on Windows 7? [duplicate]
I see that the default allocation unit size is smaller for exFAT (2048 bytes) than for NTFS (4096 bytes) when formatting a disk on Windows 7 via Windows Explorer:
Why is the default allocation unit ...
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Why is 1024 Cluster Size with blank drive being shown while querying WMIC for available drives?
I wanted to know cluster sizes for my flash drive (ExFAT), and I followed the useful answer here:
https://superuser.com/a/1358598/602756
Here is output of cmd: wmic volume get driveletter,blocksize
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Macos with external ntfs (default read-only). Python os.walk will not recurse through subdirs on ntfs
With Macbook 2021 (arm64).
uname -a
Darwin MacBook.local 21.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.1.0: Wed Oct 13 17:33:01 PDT 2021; root:xnu-8019.41.5~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64
External drive, SSD2TB, is ...
