USB Flash Drives are portable USB drives that rely upon flash storage, also known as pen drives or USB sticks.
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Windows 8 deployment from USB
My goal is to deploy Windows 8 via USB to several computers. The systems I'm working with have come with GPT parted HD's. I have set up one the way I'd like it, sysprepped and captured the ...
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Risk in converting file system of pendrive form fat32 to ntfs
I want to know is there any risk in converting the file system of pen-drive from fat32 to ntfs?
I am asking this because once I had to copy a high quality video in my pendrive. The file system was ...
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No partition on USB Flash Drive?
A friend gave me a corrupted USB memory stick to try recovery data from. But I've had some unusual results, so thought I'd share to see if anyone is familiar with this problem...
First off I just ...
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Long life storage devices [closed]
Which is the best storage device for long life(to preserve the data for more time)?
Is it pen-drive or DVD or Hard disk?
Or is it any other than these three? I also want to know why one is better ...
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USB Flash Drive shows empty but definitely had non-hidden files
I have this 16 GB USb Flash Drive and I remember storing a lot of data in it. I used this several weeks later on my Windows PC and it fails to show any files on it. None were hidden and even so, my PC ...
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Do flash-drives/memory-cards fail silently or is there a warning/error?
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Currently, my various data files (the files I create myself and are thus irreplaceable), are spread out over several directories on a couple of system. I want to consolidate them all into ...
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How to prevent “evil maid” attacks? How to move /boot to a USB pendrive?
Apparently using full-disk encryption is not enough to secure a computer, because the /boot partition is not encrypted, and could be modified to include a keylogger.
I have read about different ...
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Really strange windows 7 behavior (usb devices not working)
I'm having a really strange problem with a Windows 7 SP1 machine.
All of the USB devices (except the mouse and an external USB audio card) are not working.
I've got no clue what the hell is wrong with ...
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How do I reformat my encrypted key drive to ExFAT on my MAC?
I have a 32GB key drive that I had formatted with the OSX extended encrypted FS. I wanted to reformat it as ExFat so that I could use it between Mac and Windows. The Disk Utility on the MAC will do ...
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Prevent, or speed up, USB Flash Drive installation for computers?
Bit of a conundrum here -- We have over 400 touch-screen point-of-sale terminals that we use. We also have over 1500 USB flash drives that we use.
At one of our events, each customer gets a flash ...
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Format a USB Drive that has a Pre-Installed GUI
I have a 8GB USB flash drive with a U3 Systems GUI on it. I want to re-format it a the pre-loaded interface takes up about 100MB. Nothing major, but I want it gone. The pre-loaded interface takes ...
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How do I install multiple OSes on a USB flash drive?
I would like to try out different Linux distros on the go using a USB flash drive.
Is it possible to install multiple Linux OSes on a single USB drive?
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USB Drive Name / Files consist of random characters
One of my USB Sticks just kind of broke and now it's name and all file names consist of pretty much random characters, like ‗t|%ò┼½.¯f¥.
I did some research and its probably my file table that is ...
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Create a bootable pendrive for Sun solaris operating system
I am using windows 8 operating system. I want to create bootable pen drive of sun Solaris operating system. I want to do this task in windows 8 operating system. How can i do this? Is there any third ...
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Is there a flashdrive with embedded RAID 1?
I need to store some extremely sensitive data on a thumbdrive, and I can't make 2 copies. So if that drive fails, it's a big problem. Have you ever heard of a thumbdrive which is split in 2 and offers ...
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Disable Write-Protected On USB Stick (Read-only Status)
I need to format my USB stick, but apparently its write-protected or set to readonly.
I tried everything, 3d-app to format, low level format, the regedit, diskpart, and even some silly solutions on ...
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flash disk size is not normal after using suse image writer
Ok I don't know what to do, and decided to ask here, here's the problem :
I have a 8 GB flash disk that i use to boot image. I decided to try opensuse 12.3, and then i use unetbootin to extract it to ...
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How to use an USB pen drive to install Windows XP when WinToFlash doesn't work
I'm trying to put Windows XP SP2 on my pendrive because I need to format an UMPC via USB port.
I'm trying using USB_multiboot_10, but it fails when I press "P" to format the usb drive (a Kingston ...
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SanDisk USB drive - used space doesn't add up
I have a 32GB SanDisk USB drive (vfat partition type). It's as I received it - I haven't played around with the partitioning or added any encrypted sections or anything.
The disk properties show that ...
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Cloning flash drive while preserving empty space
I'm working with an industrial PC running Windows XP embedded.
The PC has a 2GB compact flash memory which acts as main drive.
I would like to clone the 2GB flash memory to a card with 8GB space.
How ...
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Create a bootable USB with DFT using UNetbootin
My Dell inspiron 8600 crashed and on restarting its showing the "unmountable boot volume" error. Occasionally the HDD is also making a strange clicking noise. I suppose the HDD has died. It looks like ...
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Why did NTFS-3G via Homebrew stop working?
I followed the directions here:
NTFS-3G via Homebrew installation
If you have [Homebrew][5], installing NTFS support is as easy as
running the following in a terminal:
brew install ntfs-3g
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USB Stick, how to minimize risk of data corruption or data loss
I have encountered several USB sticks with a corrupted filesystem in only 2 years. In a Windows-only environment (Vista and newer), what can be done to reduce the chance of filesystem corruption and ...
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USB drive's icon not appearing on Windows XP
I have a USB flash drive for which I want to use a custom icon. My autorun.inf looks like this:
[Autorun]
UseAutoPlay=1
Label=TrueCrypt Traveler Disk
Icon=Volume.ico
Action=Start TrueCrypt Background ...
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Windows 8 pagefile on usb FLASH
Not duplicate :)
Windows 8 hides usb flash drives in the list of virtual memory drive list. The picture taken when I installed 2 usb flash drives but they are not in the list.
Any body knows the ...
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Creating a live Windows USB image from a virtual machine
This question is a XY problem.
I want (problem X) to create a USB stick with a bootable Windows 7 for data recovery & partitioning purposes.
I have found a tutorial, but after half an hour ...
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Boot manager does not find usb stick
I have a dell server Poweredge T110.
I have 2 usb sticks:
1: Sandisk Ultra - 32GB - Formatted exFat
2: Sandisk Cruzer Blade 8GB - Formatted NTFS
When I go to boot mananger -> Boot settings -> Set ...
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How to combine multiple usb sticks (usb flash drives) to be used as one storage device
USB flash memory sticks are quickly piling up in my drawers, backpacks and pile of miscelaneous IT junk. Most of them (free from vendors) are 1-2GB. 1-2GB is not practical to use as every day computer ...
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How to stop and disable the “this device can now be safely removed from the computer” message
Is it possible to stop and disable (or even remove) the "this device can now be safely removed from the computer" message?
This is because I have to click the OK button everytime and I am testing ...
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What are the differences bewteen using ISOs vs extracting distributions in multiboot LiveUSBs?
I've created a multiboot pendrive with a couple of Linux distributions by using the YUMI tool from pendrivelinux, and by default it extracts the content of the chosen operating system's ISO on a ...
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recover deleted xbox360 profile from Flash Drive?
I have a 8GB Usb flash drive and I configured it from xbox 360 for 1 GB. SO that I can use Pen Drive in both PC and 360. Accidentally I deleted all files from pen drive now My profile is also deleted ...
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Not able to use pen drive after cleaning it using command prompt [duplicate]
I had downloaded Chrome OS Vanilla and wrote it to an 8 GB pen drive. After I checked it out I tried to remove it.
I plugged in my pen drive and it asked me to format it. There was only one option of ...
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PNY 64GB Thumbdrive doesn't work in HP Envy h8-1414
I bought a 32 GB thumb drive (similar to the one below) and copied my wiki on to it using my Windows 8 laptop.
I then plugged it into my HP Envy h8-1414 which has Windows 7 shoe horned onto it.
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Howto create a bootable pendrive for windows manually on Linux? [duplicate]
I've been trying around but am not through yet. Where is my procedure failing? I have a 2G usb disk which I prepare the following way:
1 - Make a partition with fdisk yielding /dev/sdb1
2 - mkfs.ntfs ...
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How can I create a bootable iso image from a bootable flash drive?
I have a bootable installer image of Win7x64 on a flash drive. How can I create a bootable iso of it to use with VMware Workstation et al?
I have used Plop Boot Manager, but I'd really like to make ...
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Booting an encrypted system from a flash drive without user interaction
I have an unused desktop that I'm planning on turning to a household server running (hopefully) Arch Linux. I know that I can fully encrypt the system and have to enter a password upon each boot but I ...
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Linux bootloader on USB-stick, load different kernel depending on hardware
I'm experimenting with a setup where I keep my kernel and initrd on a USB stick, and thus I can keep everything on the actual computers fully encrypted. Nothing is stored in clear text, and nothing ...
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How can I access the USB drive my Live Linux is running on? [duplicate]
I'm completely new to Linux. I've downloaded Ubuntu, then using a Linux Live CD, I've created a bootable USB drive.
Ubuntu works beautifully on the USB boot. However, while I can read the hard disks ...
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Running XMBC 12 off a stick, sans HDD
I have a laptop whose hard drive is toast, so I'm booting XBMC off a stick. It works fine, but I would like to not have to manually intervene halfway through booting up to tell it to Try Ubuntu, ...
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Write errors on USB pendrives will get reported?
In case there is a write error when writing to a USB pendrive (for example due to a bad sector), should the operating system give me a notice, an error message? And if there is no such error message, ...
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VMware: Hot to get rid of “Moved it” and “Copied it” prompt?
I have a few VMs that I am moving between two hosts every so often. Every single time VMware will prompt me whether I moved or whether I copied it (not affecting or affecting the MAC address ...
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One-click system restore from bootable USB flash drive
I want to create the system restore USB flash drive that will restore whole drive (not partition) image with one click - no settings, no questions... Just boot from that USB drive, press "OK" (or ...
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Restoring 1 GB to original 4 GB
I tried installing some Chrome OS on my 4 GB flashdrive and it got formatted and whatnot. Now I formatted it once more with Windows and it is now 1 GB and no longer 4 GB.
I read somewhere that I ...
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Windows 7 UFD not responding after hard ejection
On a specific Windows 7 installation, I've got a USB flash drive that was removed while writing to it and since then on that specific machine the OS will not recognize it.
When I plug it in, it take a ...
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unable to open files in USB flash drives
When i want to open my USB flash drives,it has an error with the below text:
There was a problem starting~$WUDFFPBD.FAT
The specified module could not be found.
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“no medium found”, usb flash drive
My Debian Sid on Thinkpad X61 has troubles reading from one of my USB flash drives (ADATA S102). Even accessing raw block storage is a problem:
liori:% LANG= dd if=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 | hexdump
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How to use over 4GB files on USB stick and retain compatibility between operating systems?
I overcame this 4GB file problem by formatting my USB stick to NTFS. But Linux or other OS's or devices doesn't support this format.
Is it possible to have a program inside my USB stick, which would ...
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USB autorun on Linux
I'm running ubuntu linux on Beagle Board without any GUI like KDE/GNOME etc. I would like to know if any user plugs in a USB flash drive will it have autorun enabled by default?
I want to make sure ...
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How to disable execution of shell scripts and executables on USB device?
We have a industrial system(running on linux) with a USB port. We have the USB port only for copying certain data. Other than this we don't want the USB drive to contain any other executables or ...
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Flash drive doesn't show up on Windows, but works on Ubuntu
I have a Corsair Flash Voyager GT with capacity of 16 GB bought roughly 5 years ago. It was working okay on all my computers, like a flash drive usually does. One day I lend it to my friend and when ...
