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How to remove ACL functionality altogether in Windows 10 / NTFS?
Recently saw some interesting benchmarks of Early Windows 11 WSL2 Performance vs Native Ubuntu Linux vs Windows 10. Some comments about this seem to indicate a belief that Windows' ACL implementation ...
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Increase Windows disk write-cache size
On my 32gb system, the maximum disk cache size used appears to be around 3.8gb, as observed in task manager as "Modified" memory, whilst under heavy write load.
This seems underpowered to me ...
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Empty Partition Reported as Full
I have a Windows 10 desktop with a 1 TB drive that I use for my OS partition plus one other 500 MB partition (mounted as E:) that almost exclusively has junction links to folders on my other drives (...
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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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How to move a partial download to another disk?
I inadvertently download a file to a disk that has less space than the file itself.
The whole size is around 100GB and the size on disk for now is around 40GB.
I want to move the file to another disk ...
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win 10 conflict between NTFS mapped drive and samba (1.0) mapped drive
i have a win 10 with 2 mapped drives. one is mapped to another win 10 share drive, and the other to a samba share on Ubuntu server. This setup has worked well for the past 5 years plus.
Last week, i ...
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Win10 somehow overwrote a partition file table with an old copy
I've had something very weird happen:
I have a Win10 install on a SSD, with another 4 disks connected. Then I added a new disk where I copied 2 large folders to, then I turned PC off and unplugged all ...
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Remove NTFS encryption from files
One of the programs I used, apparently, set up file encryption on my PC. First, I noticed the "Encrypting File System" pop up asking to backup encryption certificate and key, then once I ...
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Seemingly random ISO files won't copy to USB HDD
I have had a handful of iso files from different sources; different vendors, custom bootdisks, with entirely different contents, and of varying sizes that simply won't copy to my external HDD. I have ...
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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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First NTFS boot sector corrupt, filesystem is RAW, successful repair - repeats after every reboot
I've had this happen on three different customer machines over the last few months, and for the life of me I can't figure out a lasting solution.
In all cases, it appeared that the problem occurred ...
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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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Can't open folder - Location is not available
I performed copy of all folders and files from hard disk A to hard disk B,
I had one shared folder on HDD A, this folder was also copied.
I removed HDD A from computer (disk is broken) and let there ...
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How do I block access to files across OSes [Windows/Linux]?
Is it possible to block access to some files/folders from outside of a Windows account?
e.g. if I boot the PC with a Linux live-USB, I can access all the files within the NTFS partitions and I'd like ...
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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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