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user profile is corrupt; seemingly with no possibility of recovery
This is my last resort, I've contacted my IT guy and hes not seeing a solid solution other than me sending my drive out to a place that can do low level data recovery besides some shot-in-the-dark ...
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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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Streamlining Bind Mounting for User Folders between Windows 10 and MX Linux 23.2
I've successfully configured a shared partition between Windows 10 and MX Linux 23.2, ensuring strict mapping of user accounts in both operating systems. Steps such as creating the ntfs-formatted ...
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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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Which Unicode characters cannot be used for NTFS file names?
Typically, my programs are creating files with Extended Latin, CJK or Arabic characters in file names without issues and according to input data.
I was under impression that only officially named ...
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How to disable NTFS ownership enforcement on Win10 for Admins?
Classic story - moved a portable USB HDD to a new Win10 machine. All folders on it are marked as "Owned by the previous user", and therefore it hit me with the "You need permission to ...
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Fixing NTFS on SSD after corruption by windows cache
This must be a well known issue, so I'm looking for a fix if it exists.
I'm using windows 10. I had an SSD in my desktop that had an NTFS partition with no files.
I shut down the PC, removed the disk ...
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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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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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Win 10 CHKDSK /F /R /X skipping to login
Tried to run CHKDSK /F /R /X this morning, unfortunately, after restarting to begin the process I get the press any button to skip part (I don't press anything) and it moves onto repairing C drive, ...
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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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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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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 to clean up/optimize/defrag $Extend\RmMetadata\$Txf files?
After analyzing my HDD using Auslogics Disk Defrag, I see a lot of many small files with no file extensions.
Their paths are mostly C:\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$Txf\.. File names start with 000000000[xxxx]
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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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