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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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Is there any way to figure out which file is changed by chkdsk to replaced bad cluster?
I already posted similar question, but until nobody replied as solution of it. so i am trying to change the question as more detailed.
This is the last screen just before exiting chkdsk. There were ...
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WD Passport reformatted from Mac to PC (NTFS) capacity reduced from >100GB to 126MB
I just had to move files from a Mac to a PC.
I copied all my files off of my WD passport, reformatted it for Mac & copied about 100 GB of photos from the Mac.
Then I used HTFSExpress to pulled ...
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External NTFS HDD with index errors
My external HDD became problematic. I wanted to get rid of some unused data, and found two folders were not accessible under Windows because they were corrupted and unreadable. These folders had no ...
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(External USB) HDD not accessible as usual after strange behaviour
first of all, I'm using Linux (but have access to a Windows PC as well).
During some data transfer, my external USB hard disk drive (NTFS formatted) suddenly was no more accessible, I could not ...
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filesystem conversion from fat32 to ntfs on external hard drive
i'm currently having problems with a filesystem conversion on a 1TB external usb hard drive.
The drive is filled with about 300GB and attached to a windows 7 system.
The conversion was started using ...
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Fixing broken external HDD partition
Basically I used Quick Format on a HDD (300GB ish) and I was changing it from NTFS to FAT32 I believe it was a while back so I cant remember much but it basically just stopped working. Now it wont ...
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NTFS drive not working
I copied some files from another computer to my western digital external hard drive and then after I connected it to my PC Windows can't recognize my NTFS drive.
A few month ago I changed partions to ...
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Files Larger Than 4GB Are Not Transferring To Hard Drive?
Moving things from my laptop to a 1TB hard drive. Stops at any file larger than 4GB saying that that there isn't enough space on the hard drive.
I checked the formatting on my hard drive and it is ...
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CHKDSK finds no errors but drive keeps on failing
So here is the problem: I have an external disk that I use to store all the archived data, e.g. photos, movies, etc. The drive is formatted as NTFS, and checking the Disk Management tool from the ...
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Convert Drive to NTFS from FAT32
I'm having strange problems converting my HDD from FAT32 to a NTFS file storage.
I first ran chkdsk N: /f and came up no problems so I ran convert N: /fs:ntfs but it tells me there is a problem.
How ...
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Is it safe to delete the System Volume Information folder?
I have a 3 TB external NTFS drive I was originally using on Windows. I'm now using it on a Linux samba fileserver, and there's a folder named "System Volume Information" on the HDD root. Windows ...
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Input/output error in OS X but not Linux on NTFS external hard drive
My external hard drive contains a directory. On my Mac I can't see this folder, neither in Finder nor with ls -la. But I know that it exists, since there is no problem with it on Linux. Because I'm ...
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How to fix external USB NTFS hard drive that stopped working in Windows but works in Mac Os X?
I have an external USB 1 TB hard drive which is formatted in NTFS. After copying of large amount of small files it stopped working. Meaning when I connect it to Windows XP or 7 the OS starts to lag ...
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Recover NTFS partition back without formatting
If I try to chkdsk, I get the error
Unable to unable to determine volume version and state
I'm currently running a Partition Wizard Home Edition scan on the drive and it is
finding files and ...
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Segate NTFS hard disk on Mountain Lion
I have Segate external hard disk which can hold upto 1 TB data. I was able to use this hard disk on my Mac laptop even after upgrading to Mountain Lion.
However since last 2 weeks I am not able to ...
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