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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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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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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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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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Newly formatted (NTFS) external hard drive already has 'Used space'. What determines the used space's amount? Is it correlated to the HD's capacity?
I just bought a new external hard drive (WD Elements - 1 TB). In a PC with Windows 7, I formatted it by Right-clicking the drive > Format (Quick Format - NTFS) before using it and, and then checked ...
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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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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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