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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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Need to use chkdsk after every dismount of Seagate exfat drive in mac
Do not start virtual machine program to use external disk without ejecting disk first from mac (better to always do it).
I get irritating problem and I can't find resolution to it. Can't I manually ...
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Which filesystems are compatible with both Mac and PC and support extended file attributes
I have an external hard drive that I'd like to use with both Mac and Windows. I want to avoid the ._ file issue (see Removing ._ Files from Non-Mac OS File System In Dropbox)
What filesystem can I ...
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MacBook Pro, OS X 10.7.5 with Windows 7 x64 2 partition
I want to backup both Mac & Windows partitions onto a completely OS interchangeable Seagate Backup Plus 2 Tb drive. (I don't know what program was used to do that.) I've read that formatting to ...
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set hdd flag to boot in linux now mac will not read the exfat filesystem
I was trying to read an exfat file system in linux and removed the original flag of lba.then remembered I had to install exfat-utils.
The drive is still exfat but now will not mount to OSx mountain ...
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Creating exFAT partition (for PC & Mac) alongside bootable HFS+ partition?
I have an external hard drive with a bootable HFS+ partition on it. I have unallocated space on this drive that I want to create a new exFAT partition on, so that my entire family's computers, both ...
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Does or will exFAT support symlinks?
I've just acquired a brand new laptop. Did split my ssd in 3 partitions, one for win7, one for macOSX and one shared data partition. I chose exFAT for this partition, but i did not find how to create ...
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