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Ubuntu freezes during I/O on external NTFS disks
I have external NTFS disks of 1TB, which I use to keep a backup of my data. This disk is plugged into the PC once a month or so. I noticed that my Ubuntu freezes while copying 300 GB of data from this ...
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Large NTFS disks are causing Ubuntu 24.04 to hang during I/O operations
I noticed that while performing I/O operations on large NTFS disks, (say 1TB, 2TB), Ubuntu is freezing. SSH and Ping do not return anything from remote PC, and this PC does not respond to keyboard, ...
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Windows installer can't recognise my drive with Linux Mint installed on it
After making a Windows 10 bootable drive, I soon realised that the Windows installer could not find identify the main drive within my laptop to install Windows on. I assume this is due to the nature ...
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HDD: 0x8007012E The volume is too fragmented to complete this operation
I have a 4TB HDD used for storing backups made by UrBackup server run on Ubuntu - but formatted as NTFS. (Ie, data was written by linux on NTFS drive). In windows Explorer and on Ubuntu it reports as ...
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How can I recover lost partitions?
My primary SSD has its boot sector erased, thus all partitions are not recognized by the computer. I can't boot the operating system on it, and I am currently using a spare HDD with bad sectors, and ...
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Recovering NTFS / GPT partition after failed "Automatic Repair". Now shows as "RAW" in diskpart
My Wife's Windows 10 laptop seems to have suffered some critical failure on her primary system drive (c:). I didn't loose the whole disk since I'm able to get into WinRE and spawn a WinPE shell from ...
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HDD missing space until reboot
I have a non-system HDD in my computer. There is no hibernation, pagefile, backup, volume shadow set up on that HDD. Recycle bin is empty. The OS is Windows 8.1 the disk is NTFS.
I downloaded some ...
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How to prevent massive fragmentation when copying large files to NTFS HDD?
I have some virtual machines, and for example the first one I'm looking at is 89gb.
Unfortunately when I try to copy it to a new drive it forms around 100,000 fragments (more than 1 per mb.)
I don't ...
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How to identify file by "File Record Segment"?
How to actually identify files by "File Record Segment" addresses as reported by chkdsk?
There was a blackout and my drives' filesystems were corrupted, the hardware and operating system ...
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What does "$DATA (nonresident)" mean?
There was a blackout in my home and my computer's hard drives' filesystems were corrupted.
I checked the system files and the hardware, and found no problem. But I did the stupid thing of running ...
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How to see all files affected by chkdsk?
A few weeks ago my home lost power while my computer is on. Recently I have encountered some problems.
So I did a full system check, I used SeaTools for Windows and all drives passed S.M.A.R.T check, ...
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Formatting 500gb HDD NTFS to FAT32 then returns: The volume is too big for FAT32
I got the same error message as this post and it also took me 6 hours to wait for that process to finish.
But now, I already understand a little why the problem occurs after reading the answer from ...
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Get the default cluster size for NTFS
I try to determine the default cluster size for NTFS. I check this table.
The problem is when the size in the boundary, for example:
2 TB–16 TB: 4kb
16TB–32 TB: 8kb
Then what will be the cluster size ...
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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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Big size of NTFS/MFT reservation on windows server 2022
Over 1 month ago I started to have have problems with free space on drive C: as it's suddenly started to decrease every day.
External tools like TreeSize or Dirstat weren't able to show what is "...
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