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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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Preserving External Drives When Installing Windows 10
I want to install Windows 10 on my pc. Microsoft recommends a fresh install of Windows 10, which is fine, but I am wondering if that will effect my ability to access files on my external hard drives.
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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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Last Access Time on Windows 7/10 not updating
The last access timestamp does not change when reading/opening/editing without saving a file in both Windows 7 (32-bit, NTFS) and 10 (64-bit, NTFS).
I did use:
fsutil behavior query ...
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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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Windows 7 displays an NTFS formatted(under Windows 10) HDD as RAW partition
I have a new HDD(ST2000DM009) which I formatted under Windows 10 as an NTFS MBR disk and copied some files on it. It's meant to be a storage HDD, not system one. When I connect this HDD to a Windows 7 ...
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Cannot open/copy files on an external USB NTFS drive because of an issue with permissions
Short story:
I have an external USB HDD drive (NTFS) with some important files which I cannot open/copy any longer because of an issue with access rights.
I assigned all necessary access rights in ...
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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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Can I use CompactOS technology in Windows 7 or 8.1?
Can CompactOS in Windows 10 be used to compress win 7 or win 8.1 available on the same disk (dual boot mode)?
Similarly can I use this to compress other drives also?
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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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