my files disappear after i move them to NTFS drive
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From time i converted to NTFS , if i wanted to save a file in drive E: , i not find it after i install new windows , i not format drive E: but new files disappear from it
i did scan disk and anti virus found nothing
So why this happened ?
i not used to use NTFS , i used to use FAt32 and all was fine -
@kimoo Windows from 7 forward defaults to NTFS. They are not supposed to be installed and run on FAT32.
From an NTFS perspective, there's no difference between the two formats as far as saving and accessing files. Any NTFS system can also access and save, move, copy, delete files on a FAT32 partition. I'm not sure it works the other way around. But the NTFS format is faster, more efficient and more secure.
Perhaps you can describe EXACTLY what you are doing between the time you have a file, and the time it "disappears."
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@Ayespy said in my files disappear after i move them to NTFS drive:
@kimoo Windows from 7 forward defaults to NTFS. They are not supposed to be installed and run on FAT32.
From an NTFS perspective, there's no difference between the two formats as far as saving and accessing files. Any NTFS system can also access and save, move, copy, delete files on a FAT32 partition. I'm not sure it works the other way around. But the NTFS format is faster, more efficient and more secure.
Perhaps you can describe EXACTLY what you are doing between the time you have a file, and the time it "disappears."
OK
Will explain to you more
for example i working now normal in my Windows 7, i liked a program for example called " X " and downloaded it , i saved X to E: drive so if i made a new windows someday i not need to download that program again.
now i need to make a new windows installation .
now after i install my new windows , i not found that program X i was already saved before in drive E: but i can found the rest of other programs i was already saved in E: from long time ago
So why this happened !!?
what's the problem exactly !!
it's too strange for me -
@kimoo What file format is your Drive E: ?
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@Ayespy said in my files disappear after i move them to NTFS drive:
@kimoo What file format is your Drive E: ?
NTFS
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@kimoo In that case, I cannot explain it. FAT32 has trouble with some NTFS hidden attributes and can't store files in excess of GB in size, but the only explanation I can think of is that the file was never saved on \\E: in the first place, or was infected and was cleaned by security software.
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@Ayespy said in my files disappear after i move them to NTFS drive:
@kimoo In that case, I cannot explain it. FAT32 has trouble with some NTFS hidden attributes and can't store files in excess of GB in size, but the only explanation I can think of is that the file was never saved on \\E: in the first place, or was infected and was cleaned by security software.
Both C: and E: is NTFS now and this problem happened to me several times when i was try to save a program " exe " file in E: , it was appear to me that the file is moved to E: , but if i install new windows i not find the file !!
in past when i was in FAT32 such thing never happened to me ,
it was small programs in only 3 or 5 mb , -
@kimoo I have installed Windows 2000, XP, Windows7, 8, and 10, Linux Mint and Linux Q4OS next to differently-formatted partitions, same-formatted partitions, and differently- and same-formatted drives, and never lost any data or files. So I can't explain how/why this might have happened to you.
It's not something for which there is a fix, because it is not something that happens. Of course other drives and partitions get re-named with a new install often, so sometimes your old drive E is now your drive H. But the data doesn't go away unless you reformat the drive it is on.
Now - Windows can't see Linux partitions (Ext4) though Linux can see Windows partitions, but Windows NTFS can see Windows FAT32.
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