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I have 30 hard drives of which 12 are Linux. How do I give them drive letters? I also have about 3 usb that need drive letters as well
I used to have 2 main workstations. Windows and Linux - Ubuntu for the Linux. Between the two of them, I had more than 30 hard drives in 2 NAS boxes operating on a JBOD basis and each workstation ...
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Data copied from NTFS drive to ext3 drive disappears upon reboot in Windows 7
I am trying to copy 500+ GB's of data from an NTFS formatted HDD to a ext3 formatted one. I am doing so from within Windows 7 Pro 64.
At first I was using Ext2 Volume Manager to mount the ext3 drive.
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Can ext2fsd be used to turn a volume as NTFS?
I have a ext4 formatted hard drive. Could I plug it into my Windows system using ext2fsd, and turn it into NTFS using the following steps?
Plug ext4 formatted drive into Windows using ext2fsd.
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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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Is it possible to reformat an NTFS drive as Ext3 while keeping the data intact?
I have a 2 TB drive with about 900 GB of data on it. I'd like to convert it to ext3. I understand that there is no way to actually do it. So I'd like to try the following:
Shrink the 2TB partition ...
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How can I recover files from an hd I accidentally converted from NTFS to EXT3
I accidentally converted my 1TB external drive from NTFS to EXT3. I have a ton of data on the drive and I believe the data should still be there. Is there any way to either convert it back to NTFS ...
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Shrink EXT3 and Expand NTFS
I have a partition table that looks like this:
[root@tower ~]# fdisk /dev/sda
WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
switch off the mode (command 'c') and ...
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Performance of file operations on thousands of files on NTFS vs HFS, ext3, others
[Crossposted from my Ask HN post. Feel free to close it if the question's too broad for superuser.]
This is something I've been curious about for years, but I've never found any good discussions on ...
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Damaged NTFS Partition by GParted
I've lost my 150 GB partition with family photos/videos and other valuable files.
I have an external 320 GB HDD, with (it was) partitions: [30 GB ext3 ubuntu bootable; 150 GB NTFS with family data (...
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Partition table is corrupt
I have a corrupt the partition table on the laptop that is running Ubunutu 10.4.
Before the partition table was corrupt I had the following partitions:
2 primary partitions:
1st - NTFS
2nd - Extended
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Data recover from a different hard disk format
I had an ext3 formatted disk with Debian.
I copied files to another Debian in another pc.
Then I installed Windows 7 on that disk, with a new ntfs format.
Later, I realized I didn't copied some files ...
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Convert NTFS to EXT3? [duplicate]
I have 1TB external HDD, the file system is NTFS
and i need to convert it to Ext3.
My operating system is Ubuntu 10.10
is there anyway to do so without losing my data??
Thanks for your help
Alaa Alomari
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Should external drives be converted to ext3?
I switched over from Windows to Linux. I have an external drive that has basically just media files on it. Are there any advantages to converting this to ext3, or should I just leave it as ntfs3?
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What partition type is faster for virtualization?
I am running Ubuntu and installed a virtualized Windows XP using Oracle's VirtualBox. I have a good 64GB partition to store the VirtualBox's .vdi hard disk image files. But I would like to know what ...
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Ubuntu Wubi "drive" failure; mount drive in XP?
I installed the Wubi distribution of Ubuntu on a separate partition (which is silly, since why do I care if Windows can still manage the partition?) a few months back; it was pretty awesome, until ...
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