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Is there any reason to keep the (new) default of LastAccessTime being updated?
AFAIK the new default for Windows 10 and 11 is to update file LastAccessTimes.
This seems to be a bad idea as it thrashes SSDs and serves no useful purpose.
But perhaps I'm wrong. So, is there any ...
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How do you enable NTFS compression across all drives?
How do I enable NTFS compression for each of my drives?
Currently it is available on my C: NVMe, E: SATA SSD, and my K: HDD
but the drives I actually want to compress are not able.
K: drive able to be ...
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Invisible file on Windows NTFS disk [duplicate]
On a windows 10 Home system there is a file which does not appear to have any name. It does not appear in either Explorer or with the dir command. Macrium backup tells me (using the total amount ...
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Is it possible to mount an ext4 partition in Windows, and move the ProgFiles and Users folders on that partition?
I am looking for the most storage-efficient way to dual boot windows and linux with linux being the 'primary' OS. I had an idea, that maybe I can create a very small partition that is just big enough ...
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Does stripping 8dot3name entries on NTFS OS partition on Windows 10 on an m.2 SSD provide any noticeable benefit?
I've read about 8dot3name problem when there is a large number of files on a hard drive partition (>300'000 is the general rule of thumb, it seems) but all the sources are at least several years old ...
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Access folder on read-only disk with no NTFS permissions
I have an interesting situation; my main OS hard drive has started to go bad. It's an SSD, and according to the manufacturer, when this happens it automatically switches to a read-only state to ...
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Extracting (or copying) files to a compressed NTFS folder makes Windows report the disk is full when it's not
I've been trying to extract a series of compressed files - total ~50GiB (uncompressed) - to a hard disk with about 55GiB of free space.
Because this is a slow hard drive and with limited capacity, ...
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Will restoring Windows 10 from restore image destroy Linux ext4 partitions?
Reinstalling various Linux systems I have affected the efi partition that was used by all systems of the same drive, including Windows.
Restoring Windows from a restore point doesn't work but I have a ...
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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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Can't boot from aomei uefi boot stick
I am not able to boot from my previously used legacy aomei boot stick since our new notebooks are uefi only. So I tried creating a new uefi boot stick. Unfortunately I was/am not able to see any ...
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Is it possible to change NTFS permissions on a big tree faster?
Is there any way to change permissions for a huge tree faster in Windows?
Is it really necessary to wait hours to just change an owner?
I was thinking that such thing as "inheritance" was invented ...
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Unable to delete folders from Mac archive on Windows
I extracted a zip file, but found that I cannot delete the extracted folders afterwards. Including the actual file folder and the __MACOSX folder.
If I shift-delete these files, nothing happens. If I ...
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fixing ntfs partition after ddrescue
I had some really slow disk access and determined my disk was unhealthy. I was still able to see file contents and use most of the drive contents in Windows, but a few files were inaccessible. This ...
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Removing a folder from File Explorer that no longer exists on the file system
I uninstalled an application using the product's official MSI package, it worked as expected but seems to have left a 'phantom' folder behind which is blocking my next installation.
I'm 99% sure I ...
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Could not locate '\EFI\Boot\bootia32.efi': [14] Not Found
When I boot up Windows 10 IoT (64-bit) on one specific device, before booting, a black screen with the following message always pops up:
** UEFI:NTFS (ia32) **
[INFO] Boot disk: PciRoot(0)/Pci(0x1D,...
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