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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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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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Why is my newly formatted (NTFS) 4 TB external hard drive has a Total Reserved Clusters of 4.7 GB?
I just bought a new external HDD (WD My Book 4 TB, it's my 3rd of the 4 TB variant).
As per usual, I formatted it using NTFS with 4KB cluster size because I'm using Windows 10, but then when I checked ...
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Can I write into an NTFS system from Linux? [duplicate]
I have two hard drives, one have Arch Linux and the other one Windows 10, I know I can't write from W10 to linux (although there are applications for that but is not recommended). But what about ...
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External hard drive no drive letter
I have a single partition NTFS external hard drive that I use with a Raspberry Pi. I'm getting some i/o errors, so I plugged it into my Win10 machine to see if I could run chkdsk on it to further ...
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macOS, exfat 3.5 hdd recognizes in one external enclosure, says not recognized and to initialize in other (no thanks), what could be the cause?
I have a single bay enclosure that I initialized an 8tb drive in as exfat in, then I got a 5 bay enclosure, when I stick it in the 5 bay it's not recognized and says to initialize.
I put it back in ...
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NTFS external drive showing corrupted files (that are not corrupted) on Linux-based systems
I'm using a Seagate Expansion 6TB drive on Linux, NTFS-formatted (For easy handling in both Linux and Windows machines), which I intend to use for upgrading my Linux based NAS running on an RPi3.
My ...
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How to remove strange file in NTFS external hard drive: /bin/rm: cannot remove 'file': input/output error
I have a problem in my external hard drive 5tb samsung. When I try to delete some files (just some files), I receive an error:
/bin/rm: cannot remove 'file': input/output error
Everything began when ...
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WD Red 3TB NTFS BitLocker drive suddenly shows up as "2048GB GPT Protective Partition"
Last week my new (<1year), NTFS, single-partition, non-OS, BitLocker-encrypted Western Digital Red 3TB drive stopped mounting, and only shows up in disk manager as a
Basic, Online, 2048.00 GB, ...
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External Hard Drive not accessible Raw in disk management but ntfs detect when lauch chckdisk
I can't access my external hard drive.
it's looks like a corrupted filesystem problem but I don't know how to fix it.
please fine bellow my chkdsk log.
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> chkdsk /f d:
The ...
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Can't move files over 4 GB to my NTFS external HDD
Whenever I try to move a file over 4 GB from my SSD to my external HDD, it says that the file is too large for my drive. I've heard multiple people say that I need to format my HDD to NTFS. The ...
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missing option to move file to recycle bin
recently, i bought a seagate backup plus slim 2TB external HDD so that i could move my in-game recorded video before editing. i used a third party partition software to format my new drive to NTFS ...
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Deleting or copying file: File to big for destination file system
I've got a Windows 10 pc, with an internal (S:/) and external (I:/) hdd. Both are formatted to NTFS. I've made copies using bvckup 2 in the past.
Today I found a small error for copying new files to, ...
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exFAT, NTFS, Windows, OSX support dilemma
I have an external 2TB drive with 700GB used, the drive no longer shows up on my mac after the battery died on my mac whilst running an rsync backup to the drive. It appears exFAT has really poor ...
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Does NTFS write in the background?
Does NTFS do any writing in the background when the user is not writing any data? Does it do any writing after the write/copy dialog reaches 100% and closes? I've seen claims that it does this ...
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