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Does CHKDSK have any volume size limitations?
A colleague of mine mentioned he thinks CHKDSK, since it's so old, probably doesn't support very large target volumes. For example, if you wanted to run CHKDSK on a single, super large volume like say,...
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Cannot mount new hard disk after using dd command to copy old hard disk
I wanted to create a backup copy of my external HDD (/dev/sda) to new HDD (/dev/sdb).
Initially, old HDD had one ext4 partition and new HDD had one exfat partition.
I did the following.
$ sudo dd if=/...
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New external hard drive has software installed in it and I'm not sure if I can format it without bricking it
I bought a new hard drive and to my surprise it has software installed in it.
I tried to copy stuff inside but due to it having a different filesystem, there were some issues with allowed names and ...
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exFAT external HDD changes 'Last modified' date by one month
I have a 1 TB exFAT external HDD mounted on my Ubuntu 20.04 system and am copying a large assortment of file (photos etc) to it.
After copying, the files seem to come across correctly. File contents, ...
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Plugging in external harddrive freezes filesystem
When I plug in my external harddrive (like 8 years old), the file system freezes. It registers on the computer but when I open the file explorer on my system it just doesn't load ever (even on folders ...
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Failing to repair an external HFS volume
Trying to repair an external hard drive (Seagate portable 2TB), it had one partition that contained both time machine stuff and some files that i only have one copy of unfortunately.
I assume that ...
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Cause of slowdown when saving many image files to external HD?
I am generating several million jpg images using a python script for a deep learning project. I am storing these on a 14TB hard drive on my Mac. The total size of the image folder containing the ...
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File size mismatch by a huge margin in properties?
I have this single file on my HDD and it shows that its size is 150bytes but in properties tab it shows as 850 GB, What's happening here ?
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Why shouldn't I always format hard drives in ExFAT?
I'm in the process of formatting an external hard drive with the purpose of long storage of backups (photos and whatnot). Currently I use Mac OS, but I'm not sure I won't switch in the future. As far ...
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How to stop Windows creating unknown alphanumeric folders in my external drive?
I posted similar question and accepted an answer as Visual Studio installation can left behind these files as documented but there is more to it.
I haven't installed any Microsoft product but I keep ...
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Mac OS won't properly recognize both partitions on external drive
I have a big external drive that's already in use by my Windows computer. I also need to use it for a Time Machine backup of a Mac.
So far I've partitioned it up with MiniTools Partition Wizard. ...
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Transcend 1 TB external HDD is not gettting detected on Windows systems after I installed Ubuntu on it
I recently installed Ubuntu (full Ubuntu, not a persistent Ubuntu) on an external 1 TB Hard disk.
While doing so, I had the hard disk formatted to ext4 journaling file system. The OS works on the ...
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What can I do to improve performance of rsync when run on SMR drives (shingled drives)?
When syncing with rsync to or from SMR drives performance drops to a minimum of 3 to 5 mb/s, with noticeable head flying noise.
This is especially unexpected if rsync only reads the SMR drive. ...
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Where can the 'Fat32 Format' utility be downloaded from ? (shown in picture)
I know this is a silly question (if not a downright stupid one)
Where can the Fat32 Format utility be downloaded from ?
I obviously tried using Google but the only website I could find was this
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External HDD not assigned drive letter on Windows
I have an external 5TB drive (Seagate Expansion Desk). It has 2 partitions (FAT32 & NTFS) with valuable files. I may have unplugged it before without doing it "safely" on Windows 10. It is now not ...
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