Questions tagged [exfat]
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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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Attempting mount exfat partition fails with mount(2) system call failed: Cannot allocate memory
I have an exfat formatted partition (/dev/sdc2) with some files on it I want to keep.
Whenever I try to mount the partition I get a "Cannot allocate memory" error.
Examples of commands I've ...
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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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Convert drive from exFAT to NTFS without losing contents (Workaround)
I have a 5TB external drive with about 200GB of data in it. I want to convert it from exFAT to NTFS but without losing its contents. Currently I have no way to backup the data on the drive, so I need ...
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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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Fix cleared boot sector (and more) of exfat disk
I stupidly used dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 intending to do /dev/sdc.
I have a 1 terabyte USB drive on /dev/sdb. It is/was formated exfat.
The two partitions are showing in /proc/partitions ...
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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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Cannot move file from Ext4 to exFAT if title contains colon (:)
I have a 1TB SSD that I've partitioned in half into Ext4/exFAT. The Ext4 is for better interop with Ubuntu 18.04 (my OS) and the exFAT is for better portability with other systems. I installed exfat-...
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exFAT HDD, previously used with Ubuntu, missing files/directories after using with macOS
Hardware details:
External HDD: Seagate BarraCuda Pro ST14000DM001
Docking Station: Unitek USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay. I've used this before and after this incident with other drives, always ...
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Why is Windows reporting an empty NTFS partition, when files are written/viewable by Linux? - (happened with exFAT too !!!)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS; Windows 10; Lenovo Ideapad i7. The exfat and NTFS drivers are at highest available upgrade (Ubuntu).
Photorec and testdisk are being ran in Linux.
Please note that this particular ...
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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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Max size VHD on exFat-drive?
I have an exFat drive (LaCie Fuel) that is 2 TB. On this drive I try to create a 127 GB VHD using Computer Management in Windows 7 but it fails with an error "The requested operation could not be ...
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Windows 7 - is it possible to create a "system image" on a non-NTFS-drive (exFat)?
In Windows 7 - is it possible to create a "system image" on a non-NTFS-drive (exFat)? The drive is big enough and the file system supports big enough files.
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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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