Questions tagged [exfat]
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Kubuntu - Can't read picture from ExFat SD card, but can read it from Windows or when copied on external NTFS drive
I formatted my 64 GB SD card for my camera directly via the camera software. It formatted it in ExFat, and I have been able to view or copy pictures taken with the camera easily on Windows.
But when ...
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iPhone Memory Stick Windows Formatting (populating!) Q
SUMMARY: Can format but not populate either a FAT32 or ExFAT 128GB USB memory stick. Copying in files fails when more than 32GB are copied. Can't use NTFS because this stick is designed to work with ...
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chkdsk generates undeletable corrupt FILE0000.CHK files on exFAT drive
J:/FOUND.000/FILE0000.CHK is corrupt and not deleteable.
C:\> del J:\FOUND.000\FILE0000.CHK
J:\FOUND.000\FILE0000.CHK
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
Running chkdsk /F J: ...
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Android: "Corrupted" MicroSD reads/writes fine in my laptop, but can't be formatted [duplicate]
I was moving some files to my Android phone's MicroSD, and suddenly the file system became read-only. I put the card into my Linux laptop and it mounted fine. I can read and write to it, no problem.
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Cannot format drive with different sector sizes
I'm trying multiple cluster sizes to optimize write performance of my pendrive (formatted in exFAT).
I formatted succesfully to 8MiB cluster (just for test) and to 128KiB.
But now, when I try to ...
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Home PC doesn't recognize exFAT formatted SD-Card but work PC does
I have a Micro-SD card formatted in my smartphone as exFAT. I can work with the card (read and write) on my work laptop (Windows 7 Pro) but my home PC (Windows 7 Home) does not recognize the card and ...
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Mac OS X - exFAT file modification time issue
I've encountered a weird issue with rsync (without -c, therefore involving rsync's "quick check" algorithm) copying already synchronized files over and over again to an exFAT formatted drive.
The ...
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Which file system is better to be used on an external HDD? ExFAT or NTFS? [closed]
I have an older 500 GB external HDD which I want to format. Which FS is better if the HDD won't be used with anything else than Windows 10?
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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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Check the cluster size of an exFAT drive on Windows
How do I check the cluster/allocation size of an exFAT drive on Windows?
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Recover exFat partition
I have been working on fixing my bootcamp partition, but in the process I make a big mistake. I ran 'bootrec /fixmbr' and bootrec /fixboot on the wrong disk. My data is now inaccessible, if not lost.
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Mount error: “unknown filesystem type 'exfat'”
I'm running Fedora 28 and when I try to mount this SD card, I get the following error:
The last part of the error message translates to
unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
If I try to open it using ...
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What filesystem can I use for a large amount of small-sized data?
I was copying ~3.7TB of data from one 4TB external drive with HFS+ filesystem, to another 4TB external drive with an exFAT filesystem. The new HDD got filled after only ~75% of the data could be ...
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exFAT shows 3TB used, but no files show on drive
I have an 8TB exFAT formatted external hard drive that I use for storing movie backups for my Plex server. It originally had two ~4TB partitions. First partition for Plex movies and the other for ...
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