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Windows 10 "Enable NTFS long paths policy" option missing
For some time, Microsoft has supported an option to remove the limit of 260 symbols for NTFS file name length.
The web is full of articles, describing what should be done.
Hit the Windows key, type ...
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How does OneDrive make its folder not functional for older Windows versions?
After the Fall 2017 Creators Update for Windows 10 OneDrive folder can not be accessed using prior Windows versions. This oddity is described at the official site:
If you have installed the Fall ...
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Cannot mount NTFS partitions because of Windows 10?
I have a multi-boot computer, one of the partitions is taken by Windows 10 technical preview and another one is also ntfs.
Booting in an Ubuntu-eOS system I get this errors when trying to mount these ...
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What do new Windows 8/10 attributes mean: No scrub file (X), Integrity (V), Pinned (P), Unpinned (U)
I just opened help for ATTRIB command on Windows 10.0.15063, and found out that there are new attributes I didn't know about.
>attrib /?
Displays or changes file attributes.
ATTRIB [+R | -R] [+A |...
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How do I format an internal hard drive to exFAT in Windows 10?
I have an internal hard drive that I use as storage where I dump the stuff I need backed up. I want to format it to exFAT instead of NTFS so that it doesn't have to deal with permissions. The problem ...
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NTFS external hard drive formatted on Linux is not recognized by Windows
I fully formatted a hard drive in NTFS on Linux from a completely empty (zeroed) drive and it is not recognized by Windows 10. It is not listed in the Windows File Explorer nor with the fsutil fsinfo ...
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Can I share folders on a LAN using NTFS alone?
I've run several searches, here, here and here including many replies on SE to try and address a simple question:
In a Windows NTFS only environment, if I wanted to use NTFS alone to share folders on ...
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Cannot Eject USB Drive With NTFS and Bitlocker
I have an external HDD (WD My Passport Ultra) formatted with NTFS and encrypted with Bitlocker (Windows 10). After plugging in the drive, I can no longer remove the drive using "Eject". The error is "...
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how to set automatic NTFS LZX compression on new files
I know it is possible to compress files on the commandline with LZX:
COMPACT /C /S:E:\Backup /EXE:LZX
But i would like to do that BEFORE the files gets written on the disk.
If i enable compression ...
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Can't delete folder (in Windows 10) that contains special character [duplicate]
I have run into something that looks like a bug in Windows.
I have extracted a RAR archive onto my PC and the extracted folders cannot be deleted by any means!
My OS's language is English with some ...
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Manually trimming unused NTFS SSD blocks in windows after imaging drive
I upgraded my SSD by dd'ing the old drive to a new drive under Linux. This has the side effect of also copying "empty space."
Is there a way to ask Windows to trim the NTFS unused blocks? ...
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Alternate Data Stream "Win32App_1" attached to a large number of folders
My Windows 10 machine has a large number of NTFS Alternate Data Streams named Win32App_1 attached to various folders throughout the system drive. NoVirusThanks' Stream Detector detects them as being ...
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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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After resizing NTFS partition, Windows 10 no longer boots
My computer is configured for dual-booting via Grub. I run Windows 10 and Ubuntu 17.10.
Earlier today I was working in Ubuntu and I ran out of space on my ext4 partition. Wanting to make it larger, I ...
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Message "file too large for recycle bin" on any file on external HDD Win 10
On my external only-files (no Windows) NTFS 2TB HDD Win 10 raises a "file too large for recycle bin" message on any file I delete.
I formatted the HDD with the onboard Windows partition tool and the ...
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How does NTFS Compression impact performance on nvme SSDs in Windows 10 on 2021 hardware?
I set up a File History backup nvme ssd in my laptop and wanted to share the results of a quick CrystalDiskMark benchmark with NTFS File and Folder Compression enabled and disabled. See answer below.
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Copy symbolic links with relative path - Windows 10, NTFS, Robocopy
I am using external hard drive to store all my data that have a lots of symbolic links. The file system is NTFS.
Now I would like to copy some (or all) of the information to other drive keeping the ...
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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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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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Network drive: "Size on disk" multiples of 128MB instead of reality
I've had a Buffalo LS420D 4TB NTFS network drive for years (no special setup - just whatever was the default as far as I can remember), but I just now noticed that no matter how small a file actually ...
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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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Is it smart to use NTFS compression on a bitlocker encrypted disk?
My intuition says that this should serve no benefit. However I just clean installed windows 10 pro and all of my non-system files are compressed. I'm getting almost 50% compression on my ssd.
If ...
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chkdsk not logged to even log on Windows 10
If I schedule chkdsk to run on restart:
chkdsk C: /F /X
No results are reported in event log after chkdsk is run (used Ctrl-F -> chkdsk to find it).
Is anyone else seeing this ?
UPDATE
It seems ...
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What is the difference between NTFS LFS version 2.0 and 1.1?
I have two external hard disk drives with the same make/model/capacity WD100EMAZ, and have quick formatted both with a cluster size of 64KB and NTFS.
Oddly, I get a different LFS Version on each ...
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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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CHKDSK fails in Windows 10 but ok in Windows 7
I have an old SSHD (Hybrid) 2.5" drive from my old Macbook which I wanted to reuse. So I decided to backup its NTFS volumes on Windows 10 Home but when I mounted it complained that it needed to check ...
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What tasks should you perform when you transplant an NTFS drive?
I recently asked this question: Recycle bin on transplanted drive
And it got me thinking: What other housecleaning sorts of tasks should you perform before and after you transplant an NTFS drive to ...
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How to determine the actual size on disk for a folder in Windows
I am either confused as to how Windows calculates the Size on disk value in the properties of a folder, or it is incorrect.
The cluster size on my drive is 4096 byes.
I've created a folder called ...
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Mounting (or linking to) an NTFS SD card in “Bash on Ubuntu on Windows”
I like to use the Ubuntu Bash that has been added to windows 10 since the Anniversary Update. It generally works fine and allows me to continue working when I switch between my Linux workstation and ...
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How can I efficiently recover a permanently deleted folder at once?
There was a folder on my hard drive that I want to recover after I deleted it. How can I restore an entire folder from the file system?
I have tried some tools to recover deleted files listed in ...
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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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NTFS filesystem used on both Linux and windows
I've copied pictures from my Slackware/Linux computer to an external NTFS hard drive many times before. The NTFS device is mainly used on Windows computers. It has worked very well until the latest ...
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Merge multiple folder's contents into another folder
I was wondering if the following scenario is possible under Win10/NTFS:
I have two folders A and B, which I want to fill with the contents of the folders X and Y.
The folder structure of X and Y is
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mklink directory junctions are inaccessible on Windows 10
I created a junction with the mklink command on Windows 7 and it worked great for the past 2 years. (EDIT: I have now verified that this exact scenario/problem still exists on a brand new laptop with ...
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Which files and folders are compressed when using compact.exe /CompactOS
I am thinking of using NTFS compression (LZNT1) on my SSD using Windows 7, but I was a little unsure as to which folders would be a good candidate.
I was aware that Windows 10 has introduced new ...
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How comes that short filenames (8.3) are created in one partition and not in another of the same disk?
I run a 64-bit Windows 10 PC with a single hard disk with two NTFS partitions, C: and D:. Short filenames (8.3) are created in C: but not in D:
How is this possible, and
Can I enable short filenames ...
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