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How to use one Clonezilla flash drive to automatically restore two or more different images to different computers?
I have a computer enviroment with a lot of machines with two different hardware configuration, for example, 100 machines with Atom processor and 100 machines with Core i3 processor, and I want to use ...
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Boot from flash drive then start VirtualBox
I want to put a very small OS on a flash drive with minimum necessary requirements for running VirtualBox 64 bit machines. Can I make it with Tiny Linux or something similar?
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Is it worth installing applications to removable flash media on Windows 7?
Without the funds to buy a SSD for my soon to arrive laptop, and the knowledge that Visual Studio 2010 can be quite slow at times on a normal hard disk, I was trying to come up with possible solutions ...
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How do you disconnect a USB drive when getting a “this device is currently in use”?
My daughter had her thumb drive plugged into my desktop, doing some work. She finished, logged off of her account and I logged into mine. I noticed that she left her thumb drive in the USB port, and ...
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Mount USB drive on Ubuntu: “Not Authorized”
I'm having some problems with my Ubuntu 11.10 installation on a Toshiba A300-16l laptop, of which the primary problem appears to be allowing permissions escalation.
I want to backup my home directory ...
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Troubleshooting a possibly broken USB stick?
I'm currently troubleshooting a friend's USB-stick. But I can't seem to find the problem. I'm doing this over a chat, so I have no physical access to the device.
The device is a TakeMS USB2.0 stick. ...
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Turning a USB Flash Drive into Password Key with Free Software
I read an article on Lifehacker the other day which showed you how to turn a USB flash drive into a "master password key" using LastPass (and some proprietary program LastPass licenses). Obviously, ...
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VirtualBox and Windows 8 - No USB connectivity?
I've tried using 4 different pen drives with my Windows 8 virtual machine in VirtualBox and for some reason it just won't show.
What am I doing wrong?
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Don't want “Safely Remove Hardware” procedure under Windows XP
I am using a PC with Windows XP and a laptop with Windows 7.
Under Windows 7, I can simply physically remove any USB stick. Files are written directly, when this is finished I just pull out the USB ...
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How to mount a hardware locked usb pendrive on a mac?
I recently got this pendrive from my bank. It's a 4GB drive - but all that shows up on my mac is a 2MB partition containing a file logintool.exe. I confirmed that on windows I can login - but ...
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Which is faster, USB drive or DVD?
I am installing Linux (YDL) on my old Powerbook G4. Thinking only of speed, which would be faster to install it on: a Lexar JumpDrive TwistTurn 32GB USB flash drive, or a DVD (a CD hasn't got enough ...
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TrueCrypt - Large Files
I am encrypting a USB drive with TrueCrypt. It asks me if I am going to store files larger than 4gb:
Does this make any difference (apart from being able to store files larger than 4gb on the ...
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USB pen drive Defragmentation [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I recover files from an USB flash drive?
My friend got a HP 16GB USB pen drive. The problem is, he defragmented it. Now when we are connecting that device, its ...
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How do I fix my USB drive to get its original 8GB size back?
My USB drive used to be originally 8GB when I bought it.
I'm trying to reformatted in Windows 7 by right clicking on the drive and selecting Format.... But the capacity only shows 250MB.
Is there ...
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How to use an old Kingston DataTraveler Vault Privacy USB flash drive on Linux?
My company provides me a DTVP with hardware AES encryption two years ago and the CDrom image does only contain tools for Windows and MacOS X. Kingston products now have support for Linux. Current ...
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Portable file association for USB sticks?
I have a usb stick with PortableApps that I carry around between different places.
But one thing that annoys me, is when I open a file (such as *.flv or *.html), either Windows says it is unsupported ...
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recover files from 'empty' usb flash drive [closed]
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How do I recover files from an USB flash drive?
I copied a few files on a flash drive, and later when i wanted co copy them to another PC, the flash drive shows the ...
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Portable Virtual Machine
I'd like to make myself a portable virtual machine for bringing my own sandboxes for development and staging on-the-go.
I'd mainly run Arch Linux and Windows Server 2008 on those.
I was thinking of ...
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cheapest device to transfer files off a camera via USB to take home? [closed]
what would be the cheapest device to transfer files off a camera via USB to take home?
That is:
laptop / netbook with a USB interface would be the normal appraoch, but was hoping for something ...
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Running a VM off a USB 2.0 Flash Drive - Mac/Parallels/XP
I use a MacBook Air as my primary machine, and the 128GB SSD means space is precious. To save about 10 GB, I've been running Parallels with a Windows XP VM off an external USB hard drive, which ...
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How do I changes a USB drive letter without the Disk Management snap-in
I've got a user who wants to be able change the dive letter a USB drive is being assigned. Naturally, I'd use the Disk Management snap-in. However, my user doesn't have sufficient privileges to run it ...
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How to correctly partition usb flash drive and which filesystem to choose considering wear leveling?
Two problems. First one: how to partition the flash drive?
I shouldn't need to do this, but I'm no longer sure if my partition is properly aligned since I was forced to delete and create a new ...
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Unable to remove thumbdrive
I tried using the following methods:
Using a unlocker (to ensure that no files are being locked) http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/
Using the method Process Explorer (to find if there are any ...
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USB Flash Drive that actually stays on my keychain [closed]
I am a normal software developer that does not do things like engage in epic combat or attempt daredevil stunts throughout my day-to-day life. You would not know it from my track record of USB flash ...
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Installing Windows 7 SP1 stops at “Starting Windows” screen
READ THIS: I got myself a DVD-drive and burned the ISO image on a DVD. The same problem still occurs without an USB device.
I'm trying to install Windows 7 Professional SP1 using a USB stick.
The ...
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What is the “secret” behind the non-volatile effect of the Flash memories?
As wikipedia and other sources say:
"Flash memory is a non-volatile computer storage chip that can be
electrically erased and reprogrammed. It was developed from EEPROM
(electrically erasable ...
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check the physical health of a USB stick in Linux
How to check the health status of a USB stick?
How do I know that a USB is broken beyand repair, or repairable?
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Fix bad sectors on flash memory
I have a flash disk possibly with bas sectors. When I try to copy data to it, it works fine until somewhere around 460Mb, and then the files start getting corrupted.
The corruption happens only when I ...
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What It Takes To Create Rescue/Recovery/Reanimator USB Multi-Bootable Flash Drive?
I wanted to create rescue/recovery/reanimator USB multi-bootable flash drive a year ago. I want to create the ultimate USB flash drive that would have the most if not all important stuff very self ...
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I'm getting a strange popup when USB flash drives are plugged in
Is anyone familiar with the following problem? How can I diagnose this further the next time I see it?
I'm getting a strange popup whenever any type of USB removable storage device is plugged into a ...
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Missing space on Flash drive (USB) - Can't reformat it also
I have a flash drive which is given as a freebie. I don't know who manufactured it. It got infected by a virus. I am trying to reformat it but I am always receiving a "Windows was unable to complete ...
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Is it possible to use a storage disk (such as a USB drive) as RAM?
My motherboard (HP Pavilion s3000y) only supports 2GB of RAM max. Which means that I can only allocate 1GB for running VMs, and applications that use a lot of RAM are slow (such as games and Visual ...
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Installing Chrome OS on HP Pavilion
Trying to install Chrome OS on HP Pavillion tx1000. I changed the BIOS to boot from USB before hard drive, and created a bootable USB drive (SanDisk Cruzer 4GB). No matter how many ways I try to make ...
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Will microwaving a flash drive destroy the data on it?
After reading the answers on Permanently delete files from a flash drive, where the top rated answer was simply to pulverize it with a hammer, I wondered whether a microwave could be used to the same ...
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damaged usb thumb drive draws power and blinks but will not mount
My MAC laptop slipped off a hassock onto the floor while writing data to a thumb drive, and it hit the carpet thumb-drive-first. In fact, the thumb drive may have broken the fall and prevented damage ...
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I washed my USB drive. Any long-term risks?
I accidentally left a USB flash drive in my clothes, which was then washed with my laundry. This was a colored load, hot water.
The drive survived just fine and was very clean. All data was still ...
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Permanently delete files from a flash drive
I heard some people mention that files are deleted from flash drive for good, there is no tracing back. Is that really true?
If not, how do I permanently delete files from it? I have a sensitive ...
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Is there a way to power down a USB device using software?
Is there a way that I can power off a (specific) USB device completely using software from a Linux machine?
I want to use this to power off (so that the LED is off) a (single) USB stick.
Do you know ...
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What is and how to increase the maximum number of usb devices?
I'm wondering what is the maximum number of USB devices the Linux kernel can manage?
Does this depend on the root-Hub or something else, too?
Is there a way to increase this maximum number?
I need ...
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Windows 7 Professional doesn't mount my usb flash drive anymore
I have a Kingston flash drive which works fine in every computer that I insert it.
But in my Windows 7 it doesn't mount anymore.
Why this is happening ?
When I insert the flash drive it seems that ...
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how can I make a USB stick bootable in EFI
I have a MacBook and I would like to check out Fedora. I have created a bootable USB stick with UNetbootin, but it won't boot on my mac. It does on a friends PC (win7). I think this has to do with ...
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Same ubuntu on bootable USB and in Virtual Machine
I have ubuntu 11.10 installed on a bootable USB stick. Now, I wish to use the very same installation without having to boot from within Win7 64bit. I figured that this could possibly be done with a ...
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Formatted flash drive in Linux, now it won't show
A few weeks ago I formatted my 16GB PNY flash drive following some guide online regarding formatting flash drives in linux as I've never done that before. I'm running xubuntu.
The format seemed to ...
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How can I automatically copy files from an usb stick onto my Windows computer when it's plugged in? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Automatically copy files to USB drive when connected
I have some Windows computers and an application I want installed on them (I want it in the users home directory, so ...
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Life of flash drive and ReadyBoost
I've seen many articles about flash drive life expectancy. They say that the life of flash drive is about 10,000 write cycles. Is this true or just a myth?
Second, Microsoft Windows Vista and 7 have ...
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iozone runs fail with “No such file or directory” errors
I want to start using iozone to benchmark a usb stick I have.
I want a very simple test to measure 4k random writes.
I tried following the manual to use relevant parameters, but I keep getting a ...
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How can I prevent a portable Chromium from saving settings to the hard disk?
I have a USB flash drive with a nightly version of Chromium on it. It's meant to run on somebody's computer without the need of installing Chromium on it.
The problem is that it's still saving the ...
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Image an USB and emulate it on Windows
I have a USB that I would like to image and then emulate it on a Windows 7 system. Is that possible?
I also have an Ubuntu system, if that would make the imaging step easier. (In my experience, doing ...
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Ubuntu Disk isn't showing up at Boot
I recently installed ubuntu on a flash drive, following all of the instructions on the ubuntu website.
When I started up my mac, it didn't appear in the boot menu. Has this happened to anyone else ...
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Boot Error when booting from USB flash drive
My HDD crashed (probably due to a high re-allocated sector count), so I made a bootable USB flash drive with Ubuntu 10.04 live on it. But I get the error:
BOOT ERROR
I disconnected my HDD and tried ...
