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What Filesystem should I use for an external USB harddrive (500GB), with possibility
to share with a Mac and Windows systems, for example at the office.
Now it is NTFS but back in the day the NTFS support was not stable under Linux and I think it is not supported on a Mac.
I would just use FAT32…
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So I dualboot 12.10 and Win7. Both OSs are on the primary SSD while all commonly used data (documents, movies, music, profiles etc) is on a secondary NTFS-formatted HDD.
Since I needed the NTFS drive to automatically mount in Ubuntu right at startup, I downloaded ntfs-config and set it to automount…
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I would like to reformat my hard disk, and if possible recover the (somewhat unimportant) contents if possible.
I have a Western Digital 1TB hard drive which had a NTFS partition.
I unplugged the drive without safely removing it first.
At first a pop up was asking me to use a Windows OS to run the…
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I have a server that is setup in raid. It is on the same network as my main computer. I would like to have some of the memory on my server to act as a network attached drive on my main computer. Basically, I want it to be a new data drive (similar two C:\, but 2nd drives are mostly E:). That way,…
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I have a 1TB external that I've used to backup my Mac for the past year using Time Machine. Unfortunately, my hard drive is getting close to full, and I'd like to move some of the stuff off of my Mac onto the same external drive. The problem is that the external drive is already full with my Time…
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We have two Dell servers (CentOS 5.x) hosting a variety of VMs including 3 W2K3 and 1 W2K servers as guests as well as a handful of other Linux guests.
Each Windows VM has 2 drives, C: and D:. on 2 of the W2K3 and the W2K boxes we have recurring errors appearing on a daily basis as reported by CHKDSK…
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I am running chkdsk on a 1TB external hard drive. The scan is at stage 5 (scanning free space). It is taking forever... Is there a safe way to abort this? The drive has less than 20GB worth of stuff on it.
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If I run Disk Scan (CHKDSK) on Windows 7, I get the log in the event viewer.
If I look inside it, I can see some kind of a binary dump:
Internal Info:
00 4f 05 00 53 4a 05 00 ec 46 09 00 00 00 00 00 .O..SJ...F......
fa 03 00 00 5c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....\...........
48 93 42 00 50…
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Once in a while, Windows XP hangs on my laptop (usually when going into standby or hibernate and occasionally on startup) and I have to forcefully poweroff.
Ususally chkdsk never runs automatically (I thought it should know that the partitions have nit been unmounted and do that).
I religiously run…
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I had a recent power outage while using my computer, with a 1TB hard drive being directly accessed as the power went out. When the power came back on, and I rebooted my computer, one of my 1TB hard drives would not register with WinXP SP3, and showed a Total Space of 0, and an Available Space of 0…
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