Questions tagged [ntfs]
NTFS (New Technology File System) is the default file system for Windows NT and its derivatives (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, Server 2003 and 2008).
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Linux breaking my NTFS filesystems?
I'm currently using Kubuntu 22.04, kernel 6.5.0-28 amd64.
Ever since the unassisted update, my system has been stuttering a lot. Initially I thought it was the RAM, but then I noticed that the system ...
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Why is my partition readonly flag being reset
I have a partition which I want to be readonly. It is one of several partitions on an external USB drive with GPT-style partitioning.
I have followed the instructions here and it works great for a ...
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Windows after Nobara installation
I found this tutorial, but it seems to be written for someone that has a single drive.
My current setup is:
200 GB SSD (NTFS) that contained a previous Windows install, that I plan to format as the ...
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user profile is corrupt; seemingly with no possibility of recovery
This is my last resort, I've contacted my IT guy and hes not seeing a solid solution other than me sending my drive out to a place that can do low level data recovery besides some shot-in-the-dark ...
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Ubuntu freezes during I/O on external NTFS disks
I have external NTFS disks of 1TB, which I use to keep a backup of my data. This disk is plugged into the PC once a month or so. I noticed that my Ubuntu freezes while copying 300 GB of data from this ...
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How can I suppress, disable the message "are you sure you want to copy this folder without properties" and related check
I understand the NTFS to FAT32 format problem but THAT is not my problem. I am coping from a NVME M.2 NTFS partition to a EXFAT SD Card.
I do not care about file properties.
How can I skip this step / ...
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Large NTFS disks are causing Ubuntu 24.04 to hang during I/O operations
I noticed that while performing I/O operations on large NTFS disks, (say 1TB, 2TB), Ubuntu is freezing. SSH and Ping do not return anything from remote PC, and this PC does not respond to keyboard, ...
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TestDisk - rebuild NTFS partition on dead WD Elements [from macos]
I have a 5TB WD Elements external USB disk, which was formatted as a single 5TB NTFS partition without about 4TB of files. It's not a bootable disk. It stopped mounting, so I pulled it apart and ...
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Windows installer can't recognise my drive with Linux Mint installed on it
After making a Windows 10 bootable drive, I soon realised that the Windows installer could not find identify the main drive within my laptop to install Windows on. I assume this is due to the nature ...
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external HD RAW, then what?
Argh. It is one of these bad days really.
I had my work archive external 6tb HD attached on my main computer
(no bootable system on it)
I don't really know what happened, but when I put it back on, ...
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HDD: 0x8007012E The volume is too fragmented to complete this operation
I have a 4TB HDD used for storing backups made by UrBackup server run on Ubuntu - but formatted as NTFS. (Ie, data was written by linux on NTFS drive). In windows Explorer and on Ubuntu it reports as ...
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When copying 10ks of files, rarely a copy is larger and zero filled to the next block
I have an issue that sometimes occurs when copying data from SD/CF cards to internal drives, but also manifests when backing up a large archive of photos to external drives. Files are copied using ...
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How can I recover lost partitions?
My primary SSD has its boot sector erased, thus all partitions are not recognized by the computer. I can't boot the operating system on it, and I am currently using a spare HDD with bad sectors, and ...
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How to automatically do a ntfsfix every time at reboot? [duplicate]
On a dual-boot laptop I have a partition /dev/nvme0n1p4 which I want to mount as ntfs partition for Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows-10. But really often this partition only mounts as read-only. The entry in ...
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Check if file referenced in MFT actually exists on NTFS volume
I have a large NTFS disk. Due to unwise modification of partitions (namely, I enlarged C at the expense of D), I now have a lot of files that appear in windows explorer but cannot be open. I suspect ...
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