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Wiped and Reformatted external hard drive says it is completely full and windows cannot access it
I had a 1TB external HDD that developed an unresponsive folder. I used the errors checking tool on the properties tool tab, and that repaired the folder. I then moved the data off to a replacement ...
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Why does my Bitlocked External HDD go read-only after I unlock it?
Windows 10, AD-managed environment, WD My Passport external.
We had a new external HDD enter circulation, which per policy has to be bitlocked. This being new, policy is also that it be fully ...
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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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Seemingly random ISO files won't copy to USB HDD
I have had a handful of iso files from different sources; different vendors, custom bootdisks, with entirely different contents, and of varying sizes that simply won't copy to my external HDD. I have ...
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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 not usable on Windows, but works on Mac - how to fix?
My 4TB Western Digital MyBook hard drive has gradually stopped working in Windows 10. When it does show, it only works for a minute then the system behaves as if the drive is not available - even ...
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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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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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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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Cannot open/copy files on an external USB NTFS drive because of an issue with permissions
Short story:
I have an external USB HDD drive (NTFS) with some important files which I cannot open/copy any longer because of an issue with access rights.
I assigned all necessary access rights in ...
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Message "file too large for recycle bin" on any file on external HDD Win 10
On my external only-files (no Windows) NTFS 2TB HDD Win 10 raises a "file too large for recycle bin" message on any file I delete.
I formatted the HDD with the onboard Windows partition tool and the ...
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