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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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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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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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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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What does a "Copy/Cut & Paste" operation exactly consist of?
I understand the purpose of these operations. What I'd like to know is
1.What happens at the File System Level ? Does a new MFT entry for the copy get created in the
destination volume's MFT and ...
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Create NTFS partition for files for dual boot Win 7 (3 primary partitions) & Debian
My problem is that I want to partition my disk so there is no conflict between debian & win 7 AND that they can both access my files.
I have a 1 TB hard disk. I installed Windows first, it created ...
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Hard drive weird issue
I'm having some difficulties solving a problem that I believe is related to my HDD, and I would appreciate some help. This is what happened:
I was using my laptop (DELL XPS L502x/750Gb HDD/ 6Go RAM/ ...
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How to recover files from hybrid drive
I have a somewhat complex problem. My notebook's hybrid drive failed and the HDD part (500 GB) was damaged physically so any software based solution was off the table. However I have taken an image of ...
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