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How can I create a hard link to a directory in Windows? [duplicate]
A comment at How to create a directory hard link in Windows? states it is "technically possible" to create a hard link to a directory, but so far I have not found anything about how to ...
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How to copy folder with multiple identical file names
I have an encapsulated Windows 10 Kiosk system that creates/provides reports on external USB storage devices (NTFS). Unfortunately there's not a lot I can say about this system as it is fairly well ...
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How to remove ACL functionality altogether in Windows 10 / NTFS?
Recently saw some interesting benchmarks of Early Windows 11 WSL2 Performance vs Native Ubuntu Linux vs Windows 10. Some comments about this seem to indicate a belief that Windows' ACL implementation ...
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First NTFS boot sector corrupt, filesystem is RAW, successful repair - repeats after every reboot
I've had this happen on three different customer machines over the last few months, and for the life of me I can't figure out a lasting solution.
In all cases, it appeared that the problem occurred ...
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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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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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Win10 doesn't see changes made on HDD by Win7
I want to copy tens of gigabytes of data from my old Win7 computer to my new Win10 computer. By Wifi this is very slow. Hence I pulled out the Win10 HDD, plugged it into Win7, copied the data, and ...
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File Access Time is not getting modified in File explorer
I am trying to figure out the last access time for file in Windows if user read the file. I know that to improve the performance of NTFS filesystem in Windows vista and above the last access times of ...
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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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Cannot Move Files to Hard Drive/Not Enough Room on Destination File System- External HDD with Plenty of Space
I have a working WD 4TB Hard Drive which was recently removed from a NAS. I performed a DOD (0x000) overwrite with a NTFS format, using the disk utility DiskWipe.exe - a free disk cleaning utility, ...
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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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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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Where did my Downloads and Desktop folder go?
I'm running Windows 10 x64 and a few months ago my Downloads and Desktop folder went missing. I can see them in explorer and I can even access the files inside them but when I try to access those ...
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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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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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