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Which tools can recover fragmented files from a partially overwritten NTFS partition? A friend of mine used a clone drive utility without knowing the implications. It looks like he selected the wrong target drive, and, more importantly, he did not unplug unused devices before using such a...

Don't taskkill Notepad++ first. Go to the task manager (open using ctrl+shift+esc) and create a dump file (.DMP) by right-clicking the process and clicking "create dump file". The dump file contains everything Notepad++ had opened in the computer memory (RAM). It will be placed in your temp...

Use CMD or powershell for writing to Blu-ray. You can place files you wish to write to a BD-R into a temporary folder, then use the "copy" or "move" commands in CMD or powershell to write it to the disc. For powershell copying, make sure to use the -Recurse parameter or it will create a blank...

I would like to share some observations regarding SATA-to-USB adapters. Two types of adapters There appear to be two kinds of SATA-to-USB adapters: Those who mainly use USB as primary power source and those who mainly use an external DC adapter as primary power source. The former kind (USB as...

When opening the laptop lid, you hold it in the center, don't you? Don't hold it in the corner or you will bend the joints of the screen.

I searched for the names of those 1974 dated files in a HEX editor (HxD by MH Nexus, but others should work too). I found out that those 1974 file listings appear as bare file names with null-bytes after them in the HEX editor, so the metadata was apparently not completely written. Sometimes...

No, my question is not answered yet. I am hoping that someone in this forum can speak from experience so I don't have to spend hours downloading an ISO image and setting up a virtual machine to test this.

And that's what I have just done. ;) Thanks anyway, GPT.

An "unclean file system" or "unclean volume" occurs when a data storage device (e.g. USB stick) is disconnected without being safely unmounted. At the next connection, Windows asks the user to "repair" the volume, meaning running CHKDSK. From experience, I know that Windows 7 does not allow...

The disc is physically undamaged. Didn't happen at the time of writing. This is the likeliest cause. It seems Microsoft has abandoned the development of the UDF driver. I am using Pioneer, which seems to be reputable. Also, Pioneer keeps a stable rotation speed while writing, where as my...

Indeed. Now what caused the corruption? These were just a few hundred files. In other occasions, UDF handled thousands of files in one directory without error. Indeed it does. I have attached the command output in the top post. However, this does not bring back the files that appeared as...

I was unable to add files to one specific folder on a Blu-ray disc. Later, there was a zero-byte file dated 1974-07-25 that would result in error 0x80070570 when trying to rename it in Windows Explorer. Trying to open it with Notepad or through the "type" command inside CMD results in an error...

Could you please link me to existing reports of this limitation?

It's as if a human wrote it. Amazing bot. Just one correction: It does not seem like the limitation is known.

On Windows 10 and presumably other Windows versions, the built-in file archiver of Windows Explorer (Windows File Explorer) does not record the time stamps of folders at the top level inside the ZIP archive file. If you wish to retain those time stamps, you can use 7-Zip file manager. Time...