stupid question perhaps, but addressing a 40 year old stupid OS... I have a RAID6 array on a server which contains some 8TB in one partition. This is the Ubuntu box. I then have a Win 7 box, whereby I have 12TB in 6x2TB drives.
I am trying to copy the folders from ubuntu RAID6 to Windows 7, but as follows:
Drive 1 of Win 7 contains all folders A to D, drive 2 contains E to G, etc.
I started the copy / back up but then I had Windows reboot (thank you!) due to automatic updates installed. Having turned this off, I now want to restart the copy, but of course, the very smart Windows copy routine tells me there is not enough space on the destination drive to copy all A to D folders as it checks for space without consideration of duplicate / existing files at destination... so the only way I can see is to erase all copied folders and start again... bloody stupid.
I have tried Robocopy, FastCopy, SimpleCopy but I cannot get a piece of SW that can just copy the MISSING / NON EXISTENT files in the destination drive. Some of these programs do not even let me select Folders A - D...
How can I copy the missing files only, without having Win 7 check for available space before starting the process?
Not sure that there is a way. Have you looked at SyncToy. It is an MS software and might be able to help you with that. The other thing that you can do; assuming you are using some sort of smb copy and not ftp or anything; why not mount the windows drive on the linux box and do the coping on the linux box rather than on the windows box?
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So this happends when I want to setup dual-boot ParrotOS and Windows. When I want to install Parrot, I accidentally select 'use all disk and setup LVM' (not encripted) and I noticed that and click cancel but the LVM already been setup. Can I revert the LVM setup or get my data out from the windows partition?
Thanks!
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I check my windows partition on ParrotOS live using TestDisk, the files are intact and I'm copying the files to removable flashdrive as a backup. Is there anything I can do to make my partition bootable inside LVM? or how can I extract the partition to direct partition not inside LVM?
After asking on other technology forums, I decided to format my hard drive and reinstall windows.
I have got plenty of Windows SDKs installed with Visual Studio. The two directories Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs and Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits take a lot of space (approx. 2 GB). Can I move these directories to another volume to reclaim some space on my small SSD C: drive? Can NTFS links to folders or junction points be used to do it? I mean to let it think the files are still in their original places but to place them physically to a different place on a different volume.
Similar question was already asked ( Safely move Microsoft SDKs folder ), but neither NTFS links nor NTFS junction points were discussed there.
Never tried, but I'd do it the UNIX way - move them and put an NTFS junction (pointing to the new location) in the original position, I don't see why it shouldn't work.
Yes, just to confirm Matteo's guess: I've done it using NTFS junction, and works perfectly fine.
So I found out how to share folders using Virtual Box and running Windows 8.
I was wondering, if I save files or projects from Windows 8 to the shared folder on my Mac, will TimeMachine backup those files onto my external harddrive? The hard drive is of course formatted for Mac because of that whole debockel, but that is besides the point. Even though the files were made in Windows.
Also...My assumption is that I would not be able to access the files on my external formatted hard drive from Virtual Box running Windows 8. Is this true?
To my knowledge, you cannot access the files on a journaled formatted hard drive from Windows without extra software. If I understand you correctly, you are trying to backup files created in the Windows VM within your Time Machine backup hard drive?
I'm sure you have solved this by now, but you should consider backing up the VM itself. If the files on the Windows Machine are important you can leave them in a shared folder and have time machine back up that folder.
Working on a project with video files on different external hard drives and the xml they gave me with all the file paths all start with /Volume/name_of_disk/ as they made the xml on a Mac. I'm wondering if there is an equivalent to /Volume/ in the PC file system (specifically Windows 7), that I could then tack on /name_of_disk/movie_name and have it find my movie. (more or less the same as going to Computer in Windows Explorer?)
End game I'm using Python and can take care of everything on that end, but it's more a Windows file system question, as I just switched over from Mac.
Cheers!
I have a .exe file in my pen drive sitting in a long chain of directories
(driveLetter:\dir1\dir2....\dir8\program.exe)
Now I don't wanna go through all those directories to get to the file and run it,
Problem is that in Windows7, running a .exe file with the autorun.inf open command doesn't work anymore in pen drives but it does in CDs, that's why I wanna make my pen drive appear like a CD to windows upon insertion.
Please don't ask me if I'm writing a virus here, cuz I'm not.
Any ideas how can I achieve this ?
if making it appear as a CD won't work, is there a way to run the .exe file
(I know, this might be a separate Q)
Thank you so much for anything you can provide me with.
You can make a flash drive use autorun by having the autorun and exe file in the default directory (i.e.: not a dozen folders deep). That's how I've done it when installing W7 on computers without a CD drive.
Here's what Windows 7 autorun.inf looks like
[Autorun.Amd64]
open=setup64.exe
icon=setup64.exe,0
[Autorun]
open=setup.exe
icon=setup.exe,0
It's pretty straight-forward: the top one is for a 64-bit OS, while the bottom is for 32-bit.
Since 2011, Microsoft has removed the autorun.inf option, so it will not work, not even if CD drivers will replace the current drivers. Both CDs and flash drives can't be automatically started without at least a prompt shown to the end user. That is for security reasons.