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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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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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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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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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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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Why does Windows 10 only offer to format my memstick to NTFS (not eXFAT)?
I have a 128 GB memory stick which shipped with a exFAT-formatted file system.
But when I try to reformat it (context menu properties in File Explorer), it only offers to format to NTFS with no other ...
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Wiped and Reformatted external hard drive says it is completely full and windows cannot access it
I had a 1TB external HDD that developed an unresponsive folder. I used the errors checking tool on the properties tool tab, and that repaired the folder. I then moved the data off to a replacement ...
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Files copied from one NTFS disk to another are not visible, but only on one machine
I used my Win10 desktop to copy data from my NTFS disk to a new one (where Windows 10 was already installed). I copied just some files, and not a while partition. I've put the files in c:\data.
Then I'...
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What is $MFT file and can the size be reduced?
I use WizTree to check why my disk space is shrinking without reason, and I found that there is this $MFT (hidden) file, which consumes 8++ GB.
What is this? And is there anyway I can reduce the size ...
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WoeUSB error when writing to disk
I'm getting this error when I try to write a Windows 10 ISO file onto my 32GB USB:
Installation failed!
Exit code: 256
Log:
WoeUSB v3.3.1
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Mounting source filesystem...
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Windows permission: Unable to create file despite having permission
I have a directory that have the same NTFS permission as another. But I cannot create any file in it while I can in the other one. However, anything else seems to be normal, I can modify existing ...
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Moving the Recovery Partition, EFI System Partition, and a 16mb "Reserved Partition" to resize Windows partition
This is my first question, so please let me know if I'm missing something.
Long story short, I messed up one of my Windows 10 installation on another SSD and ended up with a Windows system drive too ...
