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Partitioned Flash Drive - Only First Partition Can Be Seen in Windows

I now have a problem seeing and accessing some partitions on my flash disk after it has been repartitioned with the fdisk utility under the Debian Linux. I repartitioned my 16GB flash disk into two ...
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How to unmark an NTFS cluster as bad?

How do I unmark clusters as bad in NTFS? Background I mistakenly ran >chkdsk /R on my SSD, where /R: Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information (implies /F) /F: Fixes errors on ...
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Copying contents from an NTFS disk to exFAT formatted disk

Will there be any problem if I copy contents from an NTFS hard disk to an exFAT hard disk? I will take files from Windows 7 on an NTFS external HDD and copy them on a Fedora machine.
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NTFS seagate ST31000528AS drive can be accessed from various linux distributions but not from Windows

This a windows 7 NTFS system drive that stopped booting windows.When seen from a windows repair boot DVD it appears as RAW.Seagate diagnostics (Seatools) Fails at 10% of simple diagnostics.BUT various ...
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Recovering NTFS after erroneous mount as Software RAID

I did something very stupid because I did not back up before performing such operations, but I am trying to restore what I can restore. We had a server which has malfunctioning motherboard. It had ...
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Hard drive error - NTFS damaged

I am helping a friend recover data from a computer (lenovo). After what I was told was a hard shutdown, the computer does not get past the system repair screen. (Windows failed to start) Booting off ...
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Switching from Windows 7 to Kubuntu - NTFS disk conversion [duplicate]

I'm going to be making a switch from Windows to Linux, but all my HDD's are NTFS-formatted. I understand I would have to format the boot disk and lose all data, but what about the other HDD's that don'...
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Data copied from NTFS drive to ext3 drive disappears upon reboot in Windows 7

I am trying to copy 500+ GB's of data from an NTFS formatted HDD to a ext3 formatted one. I am doing so from within Windows 7 Pro 64. At first I was using Ext2 Volume Manager to mount the ext3 drive. ...
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Most of the files on a NTFS Partition show zero bytes as size after chkdsk on Boot

I was trying ubuntu from a bootable pen drive of ubuntu. But Ubuntu was unable to access F: Drive, it was showing the following error message : Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/ubuntu/New Volume:...
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How do I access files created by Ubuntu while using Windows (files created on NTFS disk)

I've created a folder called 'Video' in E:\ using Ubuntu. When I switch to Windows I can't see it. How do I access the contents of this folder? Note: the folder is also hidden in Ubuntu and not ...
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/dev/sda1 not Accessible in Ophcrack

I have problems using the Ophcrack Live distribution on a PC with Windows 7. I can not in any way to see the C: drive. I've tried everything, from entering as SU, I did mount, mount force, mknode, ...
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Unable to See Files on Drive On Windows 7

Drive is 1T external USB SSD formatted to NTFS (by Ubuntu). (Dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 15.04) Works great on Linux. But in Windows 7 it shows up as empty. No errors. dir /a shows just two files, ...
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Partition created with Minitool Partition Wizard or Linux not recognized by Windows 7 and vice/versa

I'm having a helluva problem. The tl;dr background is that I'm trying to set up a dual boot system with a shared TrueCrypt/NTFS partition for work files. Computer details: HP ZBook 15 256G m.2 SATA ...
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How to mount windows on linux with ntfs-3g

So I am trying to mount my windows partition on my arch linux partition and I am not sure what option to use under /dev/ I am using the ntfs-3g package from the official repos and the plan to run a ...
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Migrating Windows 7 to new hard drive/partition

So, I'be managed to migrate my Windows 7 data over from /dev/sdb3 to a new partition on /dev/sdc1 using ntfsclone. I managed to resize the volume size to match the new partition size. I also used ms-...

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