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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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:...
