NTFS is the primary file system of all modern versions of Windows.
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Clone and resize NTFS GPT partition?
I have a ntfs partition, GPT, of 5.6 TB containing only 200 GB of data, that I need to fit onto a 1 TB partition (of a vmware ESXi guest).
Vmware converter does not support GPT.
Acronis disk director ...
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Access to restricted NTFS partition after reinstall (lost SID?)
After reinstall of a Windows Vista computer, trying to access a second NTFS partition (D:) is impossible (Access Denied). The partition had access restricted to only one user before reinstall.
I'm ...
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Recover NTFS filesystem after DISKPART CLEAN
I managed to run the CLEAN command in DISKPART on the wrong disk (disk 1 instead of disk 3 in LIST DISK). Now it shows up as a "Healthy (Primary Partition)". If I assign a drive letter to the ...
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Increase Server 2003 Primary NTFS Partition (C:\) size?
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 machine with OS Server 2003 (x64) that is part of central domain. All the partitions on this machine are of type NTFS. I am currently running out of free space on C:\ and ...
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How do you grant read-only permissions on NTFS Security settings?
Is it possible to create a security group that can read who has permission to do what on NTFS folders but without granting Full Control or letting the group open files within those folders?
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NTFS file size, how do you guys refresh it to view its current correct size
I work in a command prompt quite often and around many large (remote) log files. Unfortunatelly, the sizes of these files do not update as the logs grow, unless it would appear the files are touched. ...
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Overcoming maximum file path length restrictions in Windows
One of our customers habitually use very long path names (several nested folders, with long names) and we routinely encounter "user education issues" in order to shorten the path to less than 260 ...
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Build NAS for Windows and Linux network
I have a spare PC and I would like to setup a NAS that is accessible from Windows and Linux. I would like to avoid using Windows as an OS and would like something like Ubuntu or FreeNAS. My only ...
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ntfs general Question
Hey,
One week ago I got my Macbook Air [it is wonderful :-)] and as I desired, I installed (using Bootcamp) Windows in addition. I am happy as it works fine and very sweet is that I can access the ...
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Recover bad data from RAID-0
I have two hard drives that were setup as RAID-0 and NTFS, one of the hard drives has bad sectors.
does anyone know if I ran Spinrite to move those bad sectors, will I still be able to access the ...
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Partitioning an External HDD
I have an external hdd and i want to partion it into 2 partitions which are ext4 and ntfs. Is that OK with this kind of partitioning and Is there a problem with partitioning an external hdd rather ...
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Remove Linux file permissions, in windows
I've set up a fileshare that I want my users to be able to read/write/delete to.
The problem is that I'm able to list content and delete it, not read/write.
Yes, this goes for several users.
The ...
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NTFS (bootcamp) overwritten by HFS+ (time machine)
While setting up Time Machine over network for a Mac in the Office, I accidentally picked Bootcamp drive instead of the network drive as backup disk (the Mac is entirely set in Chinese, I was guessing ...
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Shrink NTFS Partition Windows 2003
We have an iSCSI target provided by a CentOS server attached to a Windows Server 2003 Standard box, formatted in NTFS.
My question is this - I know we can resize the backend block device fine (LVM et ...
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Best practice ACLs to prepare for auditors?
An auditor will be visiting our office soon, and they will require read-only access to our data. I have already created a domain user account and placed them into a group called "Auditors".
We have a ...
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Does NTFS performance degrade significantly in volumes larger than five or six TB?
One of my customers is planning to set up a new document store, which will probably grow by 1-2TB per year. One of my co-workers says that Windows performance is extremely bad if it has a single NTFS ...
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How to deny execute permissions on a share/folder in Windows?
I am archiving files into self-extracting .exe files. I want the user to have to copy the .exe to their machine in order to execute (extract) the files. So I want to deny only execute permission. They ...
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1TB hard drive not working on RedHat linux workstation, dialouge box saying ntfs is not installed on your system comes
I have this new 1TB hard-drive from Sandisk for the purpose of taking backup from my linux (Redhat) based linux system, but when i try to use it, a dialouge box comes saying that u do not have NTFS ...
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Resize ntfs system partitions with GParted?
Trying to resize 2 ntfs system and boot partitions (windows 2003 server) using GParted. Goal:
Resize D: (/dev/sda1) to ~850G - this is the boot drive with D:\ntldr, boot.ini, etc.
Resize C: ...
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How to recover data from re-partitioned hard drive
I have an external HDD that has been mistakenly re-partitioned and some data written on it.
Previous Partitions were: 480GB NTFS + 20GB FAT32
New partition is all FAT32 and only 70mb of data has ...
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Performance affects of compressing Program Files on Windows / NTFS
What are the performance affects of compressing Program Files on Windows NTFS?
On a fast, multicore machine, the overhead of decompression is minimal. Machines are generally disk bound, and if you ...
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resize partition hfs ntfs
Is there any tool available to grow a primary NTFS partition at the expense of an adjacent HFS partition ? (like in the image: http://i.stack.imgur.com/9kRXf.png
Thank you
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NTFS allow Read/Write/Modify, but not Copy
Is it possible to allow users to modify and read files/folders but not copy them to other locations?
Problem is I have a folder that users need to read and modify files in, but I don't want them ...
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Rsync ntfs to ntfs with save right windows file permissions [closed]
I have lot of KVM virtual machines whith Windows 2008 Server. So I want to do diff backup using rsync. But how can rsync save right permissions on files? There are some mount or rsync options?
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Allow seeing if file exists, but not read any data
Is it possible to set a folder permission so that you (in this case a .net app), can see if a file exists - but not read any data.
I want to be able to set permissions, so:
A user can tell if a ...
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Rebuild Directory Structure
We have an HD with 3 partitions, 2 are correctly identified but the third one is being reported as "unrecognized file system" by the WindowsXP Recovery Console.
This third partition was used to ...
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Open/Mount XEN image formatted using NTFS
I've created XEN image with dd some time ago.
The image is formatted using the NTFS
How it is possible to mount this image from Linux or Windows?
Thank You very much!
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Utility to check Windows NTFS ACL/ACE dependency integrity
I'm having issues with imaging a NTFS filesystem where the ACL/ACE of a file has invalid ACL/ACE dependencies. chkdsk does not detect or fix the problem. Is there a tool available to detect (fixing is ...
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How to check the creator of a file in Windows?
I want to find out who created a certain file but all I can see under Security tab is Administrators group being pointed out as owner.
This is not very helpful.
How can I see who really created the ...
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What happens “under the hood” when Windows moves data to a location shares the same root path as the source?
To be clear, I am talking about a move operation within the same partition. For example, say I were to move a file up one directory; before the move, I have "C:\temp\test.txt", after the move I have ...
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Utilizing greater than 2 TB unformatted LUN in the local ESXi datastore
I'm about to create a very large file system for Windows Server and client to use (NTFS), by using Openfiler as the iSCSI initiator.[using any other free appliance will also be considered]
Can ...
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Recover lost NTFS partition on SSD
About 2 month ago I upgraded my Dell Latitude E6500 laptop with a Corsair Force F120 SSD drive. Everything worked well until about a week or so back.
I started the computer and was faced with a beep ...
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I want to format a drive as NTFS, but Windows shows exFAT as the only option
The operating system is Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 with all updates applied.
I have an external hard disk enclosure (one of these) with a 1 TB drive (garden-variety Seagate). When I right-click in ...
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NTFS hard disk repair utility in linux
Is there a hard disk utility which can format(NTFS) &repair a HDD which has lots of bad sectors like Norton Disk Doctor from Linux ?
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Realtime file-level mirroring from local NTFS to network drive
We have some data collection machines running WinXP. After a new file is written, we would like to immediately copy the new file to network storage (a NetApp CIFS share) automagically.
We need ...
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How much performance is gained from setting NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation = 1?
You can tune NTFS with different parameters in the registry and an TechNet articles states that you increase file performance by setting NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation to 1 in the registry.
In real ...
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How to correctly mount GPT partitions that might have originated on either Linux or Windows
I've inherited some code that examines all available unmounted partitions and tries to determine the correct way to mount them. It checks the partition type ID using sfdisk, then issues the command ...
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Is there a way to use Linux & Samba Server to mimic NTFS ACL's under a Windows Domain?
Does anyone know of an up-to-date tutorial for this? I found this old doc from 2003: http://www.bluelightning.org/linux/samba_acl_howto/ . I've like to have a Linux server replace the Windows file ...
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Does Windows have a checksumming filesystem like ZFS or BtrFS?
I use ZFS and love it. I know that BtrFS also supports checksumming. I've been told that checksumming is available in Windows 2008, but I've been unable to verify this.
Are there checksumming ...
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2003 disk check fails using standard UI tools
I'm trying to check a volume with the standard UI tools (right-click, tools, check now), and this is failing with the error:
windows was unable to complete the disk check
As recommended by a random ...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 - Cannot create database snapshot
Server: Windows Server 2008 R2 X64 Enterprise
SQL: SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise X64
I have a default SQL Server instance, the SQL Server service account is running as a domain user.
I am trying ...
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Are Windows Backup Files (.bkf) compressed?
I'm running out of diskspace on a server - i've got a directory containing around 20gb of bkf files, which are backups of an ADAM store.
I'm thinking of applying NTFS compression to the folder to ...
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Changing file Ownership with PowerShell 2.0
We have an issue with a file server, whenever a user account is deleted the ownership of his/her files returns to their SID number, which shows up in our report as unknown.
Has anyone found a way to ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Roaming Profiles
I'm having a bit of an issue getting roaming profiles setup with Server 2008 R2. Here are the permissions that I have set on the roaming profile share:
Share Permissions
Administrators - Full
SYSTEM ...
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Why is the total size of my files on Windows 7 more than total disk size?
I have a virtual machine with Windows 7 x64 quest OS. When I boot from PE OS CD and run file manager (Total Commander) I see that the total size of my files on virtual machine is more than total disk ...
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How can I set a disk quota for a group (vs a user)
How can I set the disk quota for a group (vs. a single user) on an NTFS volume?
I'm using Windows Server 2003 SP2.
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Can you limit a directory size?
On a single NTFS drive, is it possible to limit the size of a directory to an arbitrary amount (e.g., 20GB)?
I've got a share on a server I want some users to be dumping files into, but I don't want ...
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Are there any programs that log all activity on a Windows 2003 file share?
I'm looking for a simple way to log when a file/folder has been deleted or moved. I'm sort of surprised there doesn't seem to be a way within Windows to do this. I see there's several programs out ...
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Raid 0 with 2 failed disks
So, a legacy server of mine was using a PERC (5, if I am not wrong) with Raid 0 and he went down with 2 failed disks. We forced the disks back online but the filesystem is a mess.
Is there any ...
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List user's folder access permissions
I have a user in a domain who has access to multiple subfolders in multiple folders. His rights were defined pretty granularly. Now he's leaving the company but will continue to work for a firm as a ...
