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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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Network Error : Windows Cannot access on Ext2Fsd ext3 drive
Unable to execute exe files from ext3 drive form Windows7 64 bit
giving error :Network Error : Windows Cannot access
Error code :0x800704b3
PS: Creating editing copying everything else works ...
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formatting ext3 to fat32/ntfs on windows 7
In a failed attempt to install Linux Mint on an external hard drive, I damaged the disk. Now, it does not show up in the 'My Computer' folder or in Disk Management. I speculate it might have to do ...
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Lost files on ext3 external drive
I have a 500Gb portable HDD that I formatted with ext3 to use with an NAS. Yesterday I was reorganizing the thing and dragged a folder with all my old photos, a few videos, old documents, etc. to a ...
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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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ext2 or ext3 filesystem with the most available space
First of all, security is important so I want to use a reasonable size of inode backups and things like that, whatever those mean...
I want to use ext2 or ext3 for a common partition between Win7 and ...
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Truecrypt + EXT2IFS/EXT2FSD Safe?
Is it safe to mount an EXT3 partition encrypted by Truecrypt in Windows using Truecrypt to decrypt it and then EXT2IFS or EXT2FSD to read/write to it?
I have not attempted it yet because I would ...
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Accessing a ReiserFS partition from Windows 7 x64
I checked the couple other questions on this topic, but the solutions provided are not working in my setup.
EDIT
Just found out tonight the partition I thought was ext3 is actually ReiserFS
The ext3 ...
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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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How to read external USB hard drive formatted ext3 from Windows 7?
I had to format a USB hard drive to ext3 to use it with a Linksys nas box. Now I can't read the hd when I unplug it from the nas and plug it directly into my Windows 7 computer. (The computer ...
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How can I access EXT3 partitions on Windows 7?
Is there any way I can use ext3 partitions on Windows 7?
I have tried to install http://www.fs-driver.org, but it doesn't seems to run on Windows 7.
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repairing ext3 partitions using windows?
I have a linux partition with arch linux installed,i installed windows 7,and now GRUB is gone,i tried installing it again,but it turned out that my ext3 partition is corrupt,i need to fix it before ...
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