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Why is blktrace showing a write operation was successful on device with corrupted exFAT file system, but no data has been written?
I have a corrupted exFAT file system on a micro SD card, in which files written simply disappear after unmounting and mounting again, despite everything appearing normal until then.
Every OS (Linux, ...
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What can be done when an exFAT partition can't be fixed by chkdsk nor fsck.exfat, and neither produce meaningful errors?
Update: I found another behavior I didn't see before: Any file created inside the /DCIM/DJI_001 folder disappears after unmounting and re-mounting the disk, while files created inside the /DCIM/...
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Why am I having issues with a D-Link DWR-M961/ZJA3 USB hard drive for file storage?
Having issues with a D-Link DWR-M961/ZJA3 USB hard drive for file storage.
I am having trouble logging in. and uploading files
there is no way to upload files in the router software and i don't know ...
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Are there specific reasons to generally prefer large cluster sizes for SSDs?
I have recently bought two external drives:
20 TB hard disk from Seagate (STKP20000400).
4 TB SSD from Kingston (SXS4000G).
Both came pre-formatted with an exFAT file system. While the Seagate HDD ...
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How to get past the RHEL 8.10 entitlement server registration requirement message?
I have a stand alone machine. No outside network connection. No Bluetooth. Can only use internal network not connected to anything other than its own closed network.
I need to install the ntfs*.rpm ...
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Should I defrag an external exFAT HDD?
1. How do I defrag an exFAT HDD (not SSD) in a Windows environment?
I know how to do a defrag for other drive formats, but not exFAT. I am aware you can copy everything off the drive to another drive, ...
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How to decrypt EFS files on exFAT USB drive?
I encrypted one of folders on my exFAT USB Drive without knowing EFS specifics.
Then I reinstalled Windows 11 (same user and password) on it and discovered that I cannot open some files in that ...
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How to read a FAT (not FAT32) formatted Floppy Disc?
I have some old 1.44 Mb Floppy Discs and have purchased a Generic USB Disc Drive but it won't read the discs.
I am running Windows10 on lap top.
Tried all youTube vids!!
Frustrated English Silver ...
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How to mount a hard drive that suddenly was disconnected after zipping some files?
I mounted my hard drive and was zipping some files and the hard drive got disconnected suddenly.
Then I plugged it out and inserted again and tried to mount a partition but nothing works. Data is ...
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Tool to repair exFAT Partition (upcase table corrupted)
I have a NVME SSD with a 4 TB exFAT partition. It is still readable in both linux and windows, but it had some corrupted files due to abruptly power off of my NAS Host. Still most of files and folders ...
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How do I update the UUID of an ExFAT partition?
How do I set the UUID of an ExFat partition?
The linux tools I've tried (mlabel, gparted) only allow resetting the UUID to a different random one, not to a UUID I choose.
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How to format an external drive into encrypted exFAT in Windows 11?
My current USB drive (256gb) is formatted in Mac and is an encrypted APFS file system made in Disk Utility. I recently started using Windows 11 and I would like to transfer and access files between ...
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exFAT for mechanical spinning external HD as cross-platform backup?
We have a mix of Linux (Debian) and MacOS laptops. I have a 4 TB external USB mechanical rotary drive I'd like to use for backups. I'd not want to partition the drive with different file systems for ...
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Is it possible to have an exFAT partition inside an ISO file?
I'm using an USB 2.0 Stick with 16GB of storage and I have an installer ISO which is 2.8GB.
When flashing this ISO to the stick I notice that the speed is very slow (5 minutes) compared to copying the ...
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can't access larger than 32GB USB drive in Linux (Slackware 14.2)
I have no problem accessing all USB media of up to 32GB in size.
Today I tried using a 64GB stick and while the system recognizes it as a drive it cannot access the single partition.
When I tried ...
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