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Resizing a FAT32 partition on a bootable USB using GParted fails
I have a 16GB FAT32 formatted USB. I've installed many bootable ISOs on it using Your Universal MultiBoot Installer.
I'm trying to resize the partition YUMI is installed on to minimum size (all the ...
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Crazy drive letter issue when installing windows 7 from usb [closed]
I have 4 primary partitions on my hard disk with MBR partition table. I don't use "System Reserved" aka "separate boot" partition. So the first partition is labelled "System boot active primary" .
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How to format unrecognized USB drive?
I have used Unetbootin on one of my USB drive, and it seems to have partitioned it some way that it's no longer recognized by any OS. It's not even listed when I turn on my computer and press F12 to ...
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USB flash drive doesn't appear in any OS
Hi I got new Kingston DataTraveller drive. I have repartitioned it in OS X than dumped and image of another flash drive on it. Few more times of the same but now it doesn't appear in any OS when I ...
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USB not registering on Linux
I have a usb with a hidden cdfs partition that I want to purge, but when I plug it into my linux box, it doesn't register. fdisk -l only shows my hard drives, and the usb doesn't auto-mount. I pulled ...
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Drive Partitions not Extending [duplicate]
I have a USB stick which I made into a bootable USB stick for Ubuntu. I installed Ubuntu, and then I formatted the USB stick. However, it only has 2MB of space on it, however it is an 8GB USB.
I ...
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Error Loading Operating System when booting to a dual partitioned USB drive
I seem to have an odd issue with a dual partitioned usb drive, here is my setup:
I created 2 partitions on my external hard drive. One partition has my bootable Windows environment ( WinPE 3.0 ) ...
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Is it possible to install a bootable version of Windows 7 onto a flash stick? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Installing Windows XP from USB pen drive
How can I Install a fresh copy of Windows XP or windows 7 into USB flash
I'm thinking of changing to a new laptop that only ...
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Is it possible to make certain disk sectors readonly
Is it by anyway possible to make certain disk sectors read-only? (The disk being specifically a USB Flash drive). Also the possibility of repartitioning the drive and making one partition read-only ...
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How to truly erase contents of USB drive?
I have a 2GB USB drive that had about 1.8GB of stored data on it. So I delete these files, and then I check the drive's properties, and I see it still has 1.8GB of data on it (only 0.2GB remaining)!
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How to partition and format a new HDD when it is connected via USB 3.0 (Linux)?
I just received a new unformatted 2.5" hard disk (1 TB) and an external USB 3.0 enclosure to use with my laptop (Thinkpad). I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 on my laptop.
How do I access and format this HDD ...
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Data transfer is extrem slow after partitioning extern usb drive
I bought an extern usb 3.0 drive with 500 gb capacity.
OS is Windows 7.
I use it with an usb 2.0 slot, no prob.
Initially I used it without making several partitions and it was fast as hell.
Then I ...
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If I partition a drive connected via eSata will it show different partitions when connected via USB?
I have an odd problem with an external drive. I'm formatting it connected to my laptop prior to connecting it to my router. The HDD enclosure has both an eSata and USB connections.
Generally, I ...
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Create Hidden Partition on USB
I need to split an USB flash disk into two USB drives, each one with its own drive letter, but one of these has to be hidden.
In the non-hidden partition I want to place my software, and in the ...
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Partition Bootable Flash Drive
I created a bootable flash drive with Chromium OS installed on it. However, Chromium OS only needs about 4GB of space, and my flash drive is 8GB.
I wanted to make the rest of the 4GB a FAT32 ...
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Booting a PC to disk partition format tool
I often need to format a partition disks on my windows based machines. At the moment I do this by using a Win 7 install CD and going as far as the custom install page. Is there an easier way to get to ...
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Multi-partition USB stick
In my freelance job as "the dude that fixes your computer" I have an extremely handy tool, a bootable USB stick with Ubuntu LiveCD that allows me to recover and investigate in a known, working ...
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Secure USB Drive by creating 2 partitions one is read only
i have a Lexar 8GB flash drive and i want to protect it using some software i forgot it's name o anything about it ! .
The software creates 2MB (i think) partition on the drive and the rest of the ...
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Made the USB Drive as Swap Partition, Installed it, How to undo it{Ubuntu 10.10}
Well,it was a very stupid thing to do on my part, But I made a 500 GB USB connected Hard Disk as my swap partition (thinking it will be only used during installation) and installed Ubuntu10.10.
I ...
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Recover a lost partition on a USB flash drive (after using it for boot)
I used wintoflash to create a bootable device from my USB flash drive.
It had 8GB, and now I can see only 2GB.
I tried using win 7 default disk management utility but it can't merge the partitions.
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Make new partition on Mac OS
I've put a Chromium OS image onto a USB stick. It takes up 2GB of the 4GB available. I want to allocate the rest of the 4GB to a FAT partition for general storage. The machine I'm using is a Mac ...
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Why can't I delete all partitions on a flash drive in Windows 7?
Recently I purchased an ADATA C802 8GB flash drive. Since the drive was new I decided to run some of the HD Tune Pro (v4.50) performance tests on it, mostly just for the heck of it.
To avoid ...
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Cause of lost partition replaced by 2 Raw partitions
I had a curious problem over the weekend... My 500gb WD hard drive all of a sudden could not be discovered by xp, then when I plugged in again via USB it was being discovered as 2 separate Raw ...
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Making a flash drive to a hard drive
I've found a tutorial here on how to trick the operating system to see a flash drive as a hard drive.
But I have a few questions:
This trick will only work on the os wherein you updated the flash ...
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Formatting a memory stick with two partitions?
I have a 16GB memorystick which used to have a Linux partition. It therefore has two partitions; 2GB FAT32 and 14GB linux boot drive. The linux part stopped working, so I decided to reinstall it. But ...
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How can I merge partitions of a USB flash drive?
I have this USB flash drive which has two partitions separated by the manufacturer. The interface included doesn't allow me to merge them and I was wondering if someone has come across such problem.
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Good solutions for using external hard disk anywhere
Ok, I often use my external hard disk in other computers than mine, and I use it with Time Machine. So I want a solution for being able to do that as good as possible.
Things to consider:
Time ...
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Installing Windows 7 on a netbook using SanDisk USB Cruzer
I have this weird problem with my SanDisk USB Cruzer maybe someone can help me...
I removed U3 software
I used diskpart.exe to "activate" my partition
yet when I restart my computer and select to ...
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Making backup of the System Restore Partition with netbooks
I have a netbook that has two partitions. A first one where I have all my programs and stuff and a second one that came with the netbook and has the data so I can restore my computer if I need to. ...
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How to completely delete my USB thumbstick?
I own a Kingston thumb-stick. I have installed a Google Chrome OS image to it, so I could try it out. When it did so, it created 3 partitions (I backed everything up and the software that installed ...
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How to partition a Flash Drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you partition a USB Thumb / Flash Drive?
Do you know of any way on how to partition a flash drive. Specifically an 8gb toshiba flash drive. I have tried using ...
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What's up with this 64GB USB thumb drive appearing as two disks?
I recently purchased a 64gb usb thumb drive, but for some reason it appears as two disks on every system I've insert it in. I've tried to repartition it in Linux, Windows, and MacOS to no avail. ...
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how to partition a pendrive?
I am using win7 rtm, with acronis disk director suit. Is there a way to partition my 4gb pendrive.
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USB-Sticks and multiple Partitions
I've got an USB-Stick with multiple Partitions on it (FAT32 (active), FAT32, Ext2 but that's another story) and it seems like that my Windows XP can only mount the first partition of the stick. If I ...
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Partition table corrupted (USB flash drive)
It's an 8 GB Patriot thumb drive, which I've used extensively with lots of data. Today, it is detected, but all data is gone: (EDIT at least some data is still there, but the partition table is gone)
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Prevent a partition on a USB drive auto-mounting in Linux
On Linux (Gnome desktop) how do you prevent one of the partitions on an external USB drive auto-mounting when it attached to the machine?
I don't just want to prevent the Nautilus window from popping ...
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How to create one additional hidden partition in a USB drive
For security purposes I need to locate a additional hidden partition on USB flash drive.
The USB drive contains a security application that will check (in code) if the hidden partition exists. If not ...
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Partitioning a bootable Flash drive
Is it possible to have a 2 partition Flash drive that looks like the following:
A partition that is bootable to OS X (this will require a GUID partition table)
A second partition formatted either ...
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How to remove iso 9660 from USB?
I have somehow managed to write an iso 9660 image onto my USB drive, which makes all my computer think that the device is actually a CD. I have tried various methods of removing this partition, but ...
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How do you partition a USB Thumb / Flash Drive?
Out of the box, Windows will not allow you to partition a USB Thumb / Flash Drive. How can you do this?
In case anyone is wondering Why you would do this?
It's interesting in the case of a BitLocker ...
