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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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