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New volume error message: The media is write protected
My customer has several volumes on his Windows computer. In order to test something, I'm trying to get the same situation, so I have shrunken my main disk (C:-drive) and created a new volume (on the D:...
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Moving the Recovery Partition, EFI System Partition, and a 16mb "Reserved Partition" to resize Windows partition
This is my first question, so please let me know if I'm missing something.
Long story short, I messed up one of my Windows 10 installation on another SSD and ended up with a Windows system drive too ...
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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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Setting a NTFS partition as a removable drive in Windows 10
First message here.
I'm trying to set up my laptop for double booting Linux and Windows. I have two SSD, one SATA and one NVME.m2. Both are GPT formatted
I'm following the instructions from Arch Wiki ...
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Recover NTFS file system from RAW partition w/o recovering individual files [duplicate]
There is an NTFS partition with data that was converted into RAW partition by a piece of software. Now it's not readable. File recovery utils easily find all the files (including deleted ones) and it'...
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How to set un-executable permission for the file in ntfs partition in linux?
Enter into debian whose filesystem is ext4:
vim /tmp/sphinx.rst
sphinx tutorial
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installation
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::
sudo apt-get install python3-sphinx
create a new project
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How to move users' data from a separate partition on one drive to another drive and remove the original users' data partition?
Simplifying, my old drive has four partitions; we are going to speak about first two (which "belong" to Windows; the remaining two "belong" to Linux). Let's call the first two partitions C: and D:; ...
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What is the difference between a drive and a volume in NTFS?
I apologize if this is too simple a question, but I couldn't find the answer (or perhaps just couldn't understand the answer) by a bit of googling.
What is the difference between a drive (e.g. C: ...
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Windows detected that the EFI system partition was formatted as NTFS
Current Setup
/dev/sda - Secondary internal disk (despite the a).
/dev/sda1 - Old ESP, not actually used.
/dev/sda2 - An unused Linux, for backup purposes.
/dev/sda3 - Swap partition.
/dev/sda4 - ...
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Boot Camp Assistant did not give partition option when I went to add Windows 10 ISO
I am attempting to get windows on my mid 2014 mac book pro. On all the videos I watch there was a prompt to choose how much space I wanted for windows. I did not get this partition option. I have the ...
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Windows 7 displays an NTFS formatted(under Windows 10) HDD as RAW partition
I have a new HDD(ST2000DM009) which I formatted under Windows 10 as an NTFS MBR disk and copied some files on it. It's meant to be a storage HDD, not system one. When I connect this HDD to a Windows 7 ...
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I am trying to shrink my drive on Windows 10 but I keep running into Microsoft or NTFS files
After days of work I managed to get the Windows disk manager to show available shrink space of 490GB (my actual free space). After multiple tries of smaller and smaller sizes I keep running into ...
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How to let linux mount an NTFS partition in an "unsafe state" due to Windows crash?
I have an NTFS partition that's shared between Windows and Linux. This partition holds my linux home folder, so it's important that I can mount it in read-write mode, and that it is mounted before I ...
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Windows 10 live USB can't find installation partition
Recently, I've decided to install Windows 10 on my Ubuntu machine but in a separate partition so that I could dual-boot it. However, the installer wouldn't recognize the NTFS partition I created when ...
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Mounting a hard drive as a folder in Windows?
Why would you mount a hard drive as a folder? I am asking this because I have a 120gb SSD hard drive that runs Windows 10 and I also have a 1TB HDD in this computer as well that I have not partitioned ...
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How can I merge two partitions. One being primary C: and other being E:. One is in between. Recovery partition
There are no one beside another. Program is not allowing me to merge them.
Here is a screenshot:
What is this 450mb Recovery? I had Xubuntu on new E: partition witch I formatted to NTFS. Recovery ...
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Hide partition from Windows 10 to prevent hybrid shutdown issues in Linux
I have a dual boot machine (Windows 10 and Arch Linux), with an NTFS partition that is only used by the Arch.
Unfortunately, after shutting Windows 10 down normally, Arch won't mount that partition ...
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Fresh install of Windows 10, keeping intact partition with data
I have to install Windows 10 Pro in a bootable hard drive of about 1Tb (model WD10EARS), formatted like this: first an 850Gb NTFS partition with data, and then 150Gb of unallocated space. My aim is to ...
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Should i use ReFS instead of NTFS?
I have just installed Windows 10 and I am adding in a 4TB Storage drive.
Should I use ReFS on instead of NTFS?
I have heard it is more reliable to use - are there any drawbacks to using this ...
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