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Slow Transfer Speed Between USB 3.0 Devices
I have an SSD installed, and when I'm transferring to or from an external HDD via USB 3.0 I get speeds of upwards 100mb/s.
However if I'm transferring between 2 external HDDs both on 3.0 I get a ...
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How many times can data be read from a USB flash drive?
While I am aware that performing writes on a USB flash drive degrades the life expectancy of the device. I have heard the quantity of writes is anywhere from 100 thousand to 10 million, but I have ...
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USB drive is empty in drive management
I've got a USB drive here, that somebody asked to try and fix. When inserting it, it shows up in explorer, but when I double click it I get a message saying "Please insert a disk into drive H:". So I ...
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Moving Windows to a flash drive
First off, I want to say that this is completely different from other questions about putting the installation files onto flash drives (i.e. Install Windows 7 from USB flash drive and How to install ...
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How can I permanently delete hidden files/folders on Mac USB drive?
I am aware that you can delete Mac OS X hidden files/folders (such as /.Spotlight-V100 or .DS_Store) on a USB drive using various scripts. But then the hidden files/folders get added again before you ...
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How to access files on a USB stick after booting from that USB stick?
I booted computer from a USB stick using UNetBootin and Damn Small Linux. Now I want to include some files on the stick such that they'll be available to me once the computer is booted up in Linux. I ...
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Fix flash drive connector without soldering iron
The 4-pin connection from my flash drive has become disconnected from the USB connector that goes into the computer. How I can hack together a connection without a soldering iron that will work long ...
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Where do I get a generic driver for a USB flash drive for Windows XP? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Where do I get a generic driver for a USB flash drive for Windows 7?
Nope, my Windows 7's "c:[OS folder]\system32\drivers" folder doesn't have it. The technical guys ...
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Where do I get a generic driver for a USB flash drive for MS Windows XP?
Nope, my Windows XP's "c:[OS folder]\system32\drivers" folder doesn't have it. The technical guys removed it. And nope, automatic driver search doesn't work. Also, the machine doesn't have CD/DVD ...
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How to turn a folder into USB drive / mass storage?
I have a plasma TV with USB input (can play divx and etc) but what I would like to do is use a software to turn a folder in my notebook HD (windows 7) into a USB Mass Storage device, so that I can ...
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USB memory always appears as 'unformatted'
Whenever I plug a USB stick into my laptop, I am told the drive is 'not formatted'. I've tried this with three USB sticks (with data on them) on all available ports and it's the same.
I'm using ...
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How to find Windows 7 File Transfer History?
Is it possible to find out which files are transferred to an external usb flash drive in certain period of time?
To be more clear. If I/someone have a flash drive and take some data from me. How do ...
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why won't my flash drives mount to /media?
I am having a problem with a machine running CentOS 5.6 64-bit not correctly mounting flash drives. I insert a flash drive, and it simple does not appear in /media. I have attempted to search for it ...
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Installed Vmware tools. Now any USB external storage on any usb port is not recognized. I receive this message “unknown device”
I installed the Vmware tools within within mac. Since then any USB external storage drive that was once recognized is now not recognized. In Driver Manager I receive this message "unknown device"
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How to fix corrupted filesystem (shows as RAW) in USB device?
I would like to ask if you know how to fix a corrupted USB? I've tried the diskpart command but it didn't work. The media is write protected.
Do you have any idea that is much better? I need to fix ...
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Filesystem for Linux OS on cheap thumb-drives (liveusb)
Simple version: what filesystem (or more complex setup, perhaps) is best for use on a liveusb system?
LiveUSB system with filesystem directly on the drive, not one with compressed system image a-la ...
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Windows 7 will not automount (assign a letter) a flash drive, behaves really strange
I have a SanDisk Cruzer Micro 4gb that I use often. Today, after using it to install ubuntu on another pc and plugging it to my main computer, windows 7 refuses to mount it (IE the drive does not ...
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Mount a Second Partition of a USB Drive on Windows
I have a Pen-drive of 8GB, I have 2 partitions on it, one of 15MB and another of the remaining (7GB+).
I know that Windows only recognizes the first partition, is there any way to mount the second ...
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Protecting USB flash drive against viruses
I got some questions about USB FLash drive protection:
I'm using Panda USB Vaccine to protect my Flash drive. As far as I know, Panda's app makes autorun file read-only. Imagine
that, my flash drive ...
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Password protect USB flashdrive
I have 16 GB USB flash drive and using it for multiple purposes:
As bootable Windows & Linux installation packages carriage (with http://www.sarducd.it)
As PortableApps carriage
What I need ...
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Are server backups to flash drives feasible?
If I were to use a flash storage device on a server, a portable one specifically, and backups written to it periodically every 5 hours or so, would there be much wear to the flash drive to the point ...
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I tell fsck to fix USB stick, it says “Leaving file system unchanged.”
So I run fsck, and it reports
FATs differ but appear to be intact. Use which FAT ?
1) Use first FAT
2) Use second FAT
Choosing either one gives a long list of errors like
Cluster 1471730 out of ...
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Making a Truely Hidden partitions that Exist After Format of the First Partiton (Edited)
I have a 8 GB Pendrive, I have two partitions on it, one of 20 MB and another of the remaining one, Windows only Detect the First Partition but I want to Mount the Second Partition(7GB+) also. Please ...
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How to create bootable USB flash drive with more than one installation O.S.? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make a multiboot USB key?
What I want to do is to get
Windows 7 installation (both x64 + x86)
XP installation SP3
HBCD
All together in 1 USB flash drive. Is ...
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Creating bootable USB drive [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I place a bootable ISO on a USB drive?
I'm wanting to install another OS on my network with no CD drive and wondering how to create a bootable ISO on a USB drive. ...
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How to Use Grub4dos or Syslinux to Boot Freebsd iso from usb
I just want to install freebsd using my usb, and there are already grub4dos and syslinux for my linux and windows7 and some other tools. Now I wanna install install freebsd uysing grub4dos or syslinux ...
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Unable to Make Bootable USB Stick From ISO
I'm trying to use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from the Microsoft Store to make my new 16 GB USB Flash drive bootable to install Windows. It worked the first time that I did this (for Windows ...
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Will my USB Flash Drive die sooner if I watch movies directly from it?
If I watch movies directly off my USB Flash Drive, will the many reads somehow cause the drive to deteriorate faster? Or is there any other harm in doing this?
My alternative is copying the movie to ...
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How can I create a bootable stick with Windows? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Install Windows 7 from USB flash drive
with linux distributions is possible. Can this be done with windows too?
Basically I just want to move the files from my ...
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Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 mobo won't boot from USB flash drive
I am trying to boot BAMT a Debian flavor via USB on a brand new Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 motherboard. I tried various flash drive and various OS. I never had this problem with ASUS and MSI. The problem is ...
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12 GB Pendrive … Is it possible? [closed]
I just bought a 12 GB Pendrive. When I tested it, It was only 2 GB (Yeah, I just got cheated).
But then I ask: Is it possible to create a 12 GB Pendrive (specially with 1 chip) ?? If noy, why ??
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“Real” raw access of flash memory cards?
I have a 16GB microSDHC card that apparently was nuked by the phone (a friend's phone, not sure which, but I can find out): while taking pictures, it suddenly could no longer access/recognize the ...
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How can I use an USB-stick as an CD-disc?
I'm currently using Ubuntu (11.04), and I'd like to use an USB-stick as a CD-disc to "burn" the JNode operating system on it. Is there an easy way to do this?
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Are there any USB flash drives or SD cards which use RAID or redundant storage for additional reliability?
I'm looking to get a fault-tolerant USB flash drive, which saves data to multiple independent locations, whether using RAID or some other means to back up data. Has a product like this ever been ...
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Why don't all Linux distributions offer hybrid disk images?
Why don't all Linux distributions offer disk images you can simply dd or cat to an USB drive? Are there downsides to these hybrid images?
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Installing grub on a usb flash drive
I have installed linux on a usb flash drive. I have also installed grub on it to be able to boot it. However, I am having trouble setting menu.lst file correctly to boot it. This setup:
title Arch ...
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Is there a cross platform way to encrypt a USB thumb drive partition? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Encryption Program for Flash drive data
I sometimes carry sensitive data around on a thumb drive when travelling overseas.
However, ideally it should be encrypted. I ...
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Flash drive file corruption [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I recover files from an USB flash drive?
I think I may have pulled my jump drive out before it had time enough to save all the information. When I tried to open ...
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Recovering Crashed Flash drive?
So my friend has a USB flash drive that isn't working. I don't know a whole lot about "recovery" software so I figured I'd ask you guys.
What steps can I try (I have access to a Linux machine as ...
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Is it safe to re-partition / reformat my flash drive?
I just bought this flash drive on eBay. It's a 4GB Imation Swivel. I have no interest in the proprietary encryption software that comes with it, in fact I'd rather not plug it into my Windows PC until ...
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Accessing partitions of an USB Flash Drive in Windows 7 64 bit
I have a 32GB Sandisk Cruzer Blade usb flash drive.
I use it in many devices such as my car audio system, where they can only read FAT32. I also use it with my Windows, where NTFS is needed since I ...
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Copy-proof flash drive
I'm looking for a solution that make it possible to make a flash drive which protects the data from being copied so that the data is data could be "played" only
The main aim for the flash drive is to ...
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Why did my flash drive become “read only” and (how) can I fix it?
I have a brand new flash drive (one week old) that has become marked as read only, by Windows, Kubuntu and a bootable partitioner. Why did this happen? Is it fixable? If it is, how can I fix this?
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Recreating the master boot record of a Ubuntu USB installation?
I copied my unetbootin installation onto my Windows 7 machine, and formatted the drive and put something completely different on it. Then later I copied the installation it back on to the USB drive ...
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Windows 7 doesn't recognize second partition on removable disk
I created two partitions on my removable Flash drive, but Windows doesn't recognize the second partition.
Both partitions are NTFS and primary partitions.
And this image is in disk management on ...
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Can't write to Flash drive anymore, only reformatting helps
On Ubuntu 10.04, I often cannot write to my Kingston flash drive formatted as FAT32. The only thing that helps is reformatting the thing.
I do not know why this happens – can it be prevented?
I ...
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Is it safe to remove hidden folders from Mac OS X from a USB drive? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
I just formated my external HDD and gave it two partitions. What are these files it created? Mac OS X
I recently copied some files on a USB flash drive on a Mac. Now on ...
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How to flash Acer Aspire 5541 BIOS with USB when LCD is not working?
I want to flash my BIOS to see if it will fix my LCD problem (screen is just black when i turn the laptop on).
The BIOS update says:
[Fixed History]
1. Solve DVD can't be dislpayed in clone mode
2. ...
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Persistent Backtrack on USB
Can someone explain how to make a persistent installation of Backtrack 5 on 8GB USB drive? Thanks in advance.
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How can I make Windows XP bootable from a flash drive? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Install Windows XP to USB Hard Drive and Run from It
Can I run Windows XP from a USB flash drive?
I know how to make a bootable flash drive, but when I attempted to ...
