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How long does it take Windows 7 to scan and repair an exFAT external drive that was incorrectly unplugged on a Mac?
It's been over 24 hours now and there is no progress bar to know what is going on. Cancel is greyed out and I'm afraid that force quitting will damage the drive. Context: Plugged in an almost full 4 ...
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macOS, exfat 3.5 hdd recognizes in one external enclosure, says not recognized and to initialize in other (no thanks), what could be the cause?
I have a single bay enclosure that I initialized an 8tb drive in as exfat in, then I got a 5 bay enclosure, when I stick it in the 5 bay it's not recognized and says to initialize.
I put it back in ...
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Create an EXFAT partition on a NTFS external HD
Is it possible to create an exFAT partition on a NTFS external HD? I just wanna backup stuff from an old macbook, so I thought maybe I can just create a new exFAT partition instead of full ...
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Format a USB disk on PURE FAT32, one partition only, on a Mac
There are other questions on SO about this, but not asking what I want.
I do not want to know how to format an external FAT32 disk from terminal, because this can be done by typing this:
sudo ...
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Why does an APK file size of 7.6 MB allocate 1.36 GB on an exFAT formatted external hard drive when reverse-engineered?
I have an apk file size of 7.6 MB. When I reverse-engineer this apk file through apktool, which is a reverse engineering tool for apk files, it allocates 1.36 GB on an exFAT formatted external hard ...
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Why shouldn't I always format hard drives in ExFAT?
I'm in the process of formatting an external hard drive with the purpose of long storage of backups (photos and whatnot). Currently I use Mac OS, but I'm not sure I won't switch in the future. As far ...
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A file's "space on disk" doesnt match the file's size
I just got a new larger external hard drive and transferred all the files from my old drive to the new one.
When I was checking the used space to make sure everything transferred, I found that the ...
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Best way to store games with a lot of files on HDD
I just installed Age of Mythology on my external hard drive and I notice, that quite a small game (2 GB) occupies almost 55 GB on disk.
I know, it's due to big allocation unit size, but 1 MB is ...
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way to safely remove $RECYCLE.BIN and System Volume Information on ExFat formatted external HD using MacOS?
RESOURCES I'VE LOOKED AT ALREADY
what is $RECYCLE.BIN?
what is System Volume Information?
how to remove System Volume Information?
MY PROBLEM
existing solution seems to only solve for removal of ...
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OS X external disk eXfat disappear
I have a problem with the external drive formatted in exFAT.
When using the os x sierra drive is self unmounted and disappeared partition eXfat.
After reconnecting I had the message "disk can not be ...
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Transcend 1TB could not complete chkdsk
I have 1TB Transcend External HDD around 2 years old. In the HDD, there are 3 Partition:-
i) Local Disk (J:) [~90GB] - exFAT
ii) Local Disk (E:) [~400GB] - NTFS
iii) Local Disk (H:) [~488GB] - NTFS
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How to quickly force-clear the dirty bit on ExFAT filesystem
My ExFAT partition is about 1TB and it takes chkdsk about 10 hours to check and clear the dirty bit flag. There is never an error. It is caused by the drive being disconnected in an unsafe manner (it ...
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Why does my exFAT USB drive need repair whenever I accidentally unplug it?
Whenever I accidentally unplug my USB exFAT drive without ejecting it first, it either becomes read-only or disappears altogether from my file system when I plug it back in. I have to run a repair ...
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Writing to external drive runs out of space prematurely
I have a USB 2.0, 500 GB HDD. I am writing a bunch of data to it, that I previously recovered from the drive.
I have formatted the drive in exFAT, since the drive will be used with Windows and OSX.
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Recover a corrupted exFAT volume under OS X
I have a external drive that is formatted as exFAT. It does not show up on my system when I plug it in. When I run Disk Utility, the drive appears on my system but I get the following message:
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