Neowin News Feed for: Ntfs

Linux 7.1 arrives with a massive NTFS speed boost and the end of an era for i486

Paul Hill — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:06:02 +0000

The first Linux 7.1 candidate is here, packing everything from next-gen Intel graphics support to game-changing NTFS performance. Discover why this kernel marks a major turning point. Read more...

Free app based on official Microsoft tech saves huge Windows space with no performance loss

Sayan Sen — Fri, 02 May 2025 09:46:02 +0000

A free app called CompactGUI based on Microsoft's own technology is able to save massive space with little to no impact on gaming performance. Read more...

New Rufus 4.5 has Windows and Linux improvements, for UEFI, NTFS, MBR, ISO, GRUB

Sayan Sen — Wed, 22 May 2024 21:36:01 +0000

Rufus, one of the most popular unofficial third-party software used for creating bootable media has been updated today. The new version has improvements related to UEFI, NTFS, ISO, VHDX, GRUB. Read more...

Early Black Friday Deal: 18TB WD Elements External HDD down to its lowest price on Amazon

Fiza Ali — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:00:09 +0000

With Early Black Friday deals, the 18TB WD Elements desktop external HDD is available at its lowest price on Amazon so, get it for yourself right away. Or, check out other HDD deals from Toshiba. Read more...

Microsoft's Windows 11 KB5026436 update fixes SMB, LSASS, printer, NTFS issues, and more

Sayan Sen — Tue, 23 May 2023 20:36:02 +0000

Microsoft has released today the latest non-security preview optional update. The update, under KB5026436, addresses a ton of bugs on Windows 11 21H2. These are related to SMB, LSASS, NTFS, and more. Read more...

Following F2FS, Btrfs, EXT4 performance boosts, Linux is also getting some NTFS improvements

Sayan Sen — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:04:02 +0000

Recently, we reported that F2FS, Btrfs, and EXT4, were getting significant performance improvements on Linux. Following that, Linux's NTFS driver is also getting some optimizations. Read more...

As Microsoft expands Windows 11 ReFS, Rufus alternate Ventoy gets high-capacity NTFS support

Sayan Sen — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 06:48:01 +0000

Ventoy, which is a popular tool similar to Rufus, has gained the ability to support high-capacity NTFS volumes with the latest update. It also fixes several bugs, mostly related to Linux. Read more...

Rufus 3.21 with improved Windows local account support, NTFS, exFAT, now available for all

Sayan Sen — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 06:12:01 +0000

Rufus version 3.21 is now generally available. The latest update brings several improvements related to Windows like better local account support and file system support, among others. Read more...

Linus Torvalds is not much of a fan of GitHub's "absolutely useless garbage merges"

Sayan Sen — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:22:01 +0000

Linus Torvalds is not at all a fan of GitHub merges as he revealed recently in a response to a pull request. Torvalds thinks GitHub is mostly "fine", "but merges is not one of those things". Read more...

Exploit uses antivirus quarantine to release malware

Justin Luna — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:24:01 +0000

An exploit that takes advantage of antivirus programs has been discovered by a security expert. By abusing NTFS junctions, an attacker can move malware out of quarantine and launch them on the system. Read more...

Microsoft's latest OneDrive update broke non-NTFS support on purpose

Rich Woods — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:50:01 +0000

After users began complaining that the latest OneDrive update doesn't work on non-NTFS file systems, Microsoft issued a statement today that said that this was indeed done deliberately. Read more...

The latest OneDrive update for Windows only supports NTFS

Rich Woods — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 20:16:01 +0000

The latest update for Microsoft's OneDrive sync client for Windows doesn't support any file systems other than NTFS. It's unclear if this is permanent, or if it will be fixed at a later date. Read more...

Windows 8 chkdsk utility plans detailed

John Callaham — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:54:25 +0000

Microsoft has revealed how Windows 8 will handle disk corruption problems with its revamped chkdsk utility and how the company plans to change the health model of NTFS. Read more...

Linux to get reliable NTFS read/write support

Fred Derf — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:37:44 +0000

Thanks to danwarne for submitting this to the newsdesk Linux users have long had the ability to read NTFS partitions inside Linux using Linux-NTFS and while it has technically been possible to write... Read more...

NTFS Reader for DOS 1.01

Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:28:22 +0000

NTFS Reader for DOS is a freeware tool that provides read access to NTFS partitions within the MS-DOS environment. You can preview files on NTFS and copy files from NTFS to FAT volumes or network... Read more...

Windows XP Patch: NTFS chkdsk.exe Update

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 03:31:41 +0000

This update resolves an issue that prevents chkdsk.exe from running at system boot. The issue can occur on systems with an IDE drive and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q315403. (System Requirements:... Read more...