Questions tagged [usb-flash-drive]
USB Flash Drives are portable USB drives that rely upon flash storage, also known as pen drives or USB sticks.
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Unzipping from Flash Drive and Drive Wear
If I have a zip file on a thumb flash drive and I want to unzip it to hard disk, is there any write activity on the flash drive, or is it reading only?
Because if there is any writing, I would want ...
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Audio player corrupts USB stick: workaround?
Consumer radios, CD players, and car stereos often have a USB port, to play mp3's from a FAT32-formatted USB stick. However, some models don't just read files, they also corrupt files.
How can such ...
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Is there a way in windows 7 to make a flash drive use the same drive letter regardless of port?
So at my work, we are allowed to bring music in on thumb drives and listen to it, but for legal ownership reasons, we are not allowed to store local copies on the computers hard drive, and we are ...
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Virtual Machine on a flashdrive [closed]
Is it a good idea to have a virtual machine in a flash drive? Since operating systems frequently read & write, would this degrade the flash drive very quickly? Right now, I have a virtual machine ...
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Can a FlashDrive auto sync with my Cloud storage?
I want my flashdrive to automatically sync and upload all its data to my cloud storage when plugged into my computer (with internet). Is this possible? If so, what existing software can I use?
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Why is that when I format my pen drive with a FAT32 file system, I get more space to work with? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is the effective hard drive size lower than the actual size?
I have a 16 GB pen drive. When I formatted it with FAT32, I got 14.8 GB to work with...while using ...
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The speed of copying a file from a PC to a USB Flash drive started at 30MB/s and decreased to 5.8 MB/s, why?
If I copy a 8GB file from the PC to a USB Flash Drive, the speed will start at around 30 MB/s... maybe 28 MB/s, and then gradually, after a minute, it will go down to 15 MB/s and finally settle down ...
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toshiba 16gb drive turns to 4mb [duplicate]
My toshiba pen drive is now 4mb and i'm really freaking out. I have tried everything from easeus partition master, testdisk, hp usb disk utility. I've searched the entire web for help and nothing has ...
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Unique identifier for USB drive in Powershell
According to win32_volume class documentation here the device name that shows up under device manager is is unavailable as a property of win32_volume. Is the SerialNumber property unique to the device ...
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Thumb Drive Loses Files
I have a thumb drive - a Lexar JumpDrive FireFly 2GB - that will lose 50-80% of the files every now and again.
It is formatted as FAT32 using "Quick Format" option.
I usually use it between Windows ...
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How do I create a bootable USB Flash PcRepair Kit?
I do PC repair on the side and am looking to use a bootable flash drive as a PcRepair Kit. I'm also looking for anit-virus, anti-malware, Data-Recovery, Hardware testing. It would be great if it was ...
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How best to manage mapping drive letters?
I have the below configuration on my home computer:
C: Operating system (Windows 8.1)
D: SSD (quick scratch drive)
E: Large HDD (large storage)
F: Optical drive
I: NAS storage directory #1
J: NAS ...
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Discrepency in number of files transferred in Teracopy
Over the past few days, I've been using Teracopy to transfer over a large number of files and folders from a small flash-drive (well, 32gb) , to an external hard-drive (4tb).
However, I noticed that ...
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USB Copy Protection [duplicate]
I am providing video and pdf content to my buyers/readers. And looking for some solution, where I can protect USB to get copied, means :
People should not be able to copy from USB (Copy/SaveAs)
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Windows 7- Unable to format disk
I had a USB drive that I was previously using for a live linux install. It had several previous installs, and there were a lot of unused empty partitions on the disk as a result.
I used the DISKPART ...
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"System volume folder" always appearing in USB storage stick
Whenever I move or copy video files from the PC (Windows 8.1) to my USB storage device and plug it into my TV, I always see a system volume folder on the USB device. This folder can be seen on the PC ...
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How to fix broken flash drive
I think I just broke my flash drive - the metal tip bent a little, it did not actually break, but now my computer doesn't recognise it.
It doesn't look damaged at all at first sight, but it does seem ...
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Toshiba pendrive shows 4 MB instead of 8 GB; what could have happened to it? [duplicate]
I have a Toshiba 8 GB pendrive. All of a sudden, it's showing total space 4 MB. I have tried diskpart and various other software, but no gain.
The disk management is also not showing unallocated space....
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USB HDD replace by "ubuntu" in boot order
After installing Ubuntu, it seems that USB HDD has been removed from the boot configuration entries.
In the GRUB Boot Menu, I only see:
ubuntu
Windows Boot Manager
SATA HDD:
SATA CD:
USB CD:
USB ...
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How long can I store the data on the flash drive? [duplicate]
how long can I store the data on the flash drive safely, without connecting it to a computer or any other host?
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I understand that flash pens are absolutely not suitable for backup and storage. ...
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Create EXE that mounts virtual CD-ROM or floppy disk when run
I was looking through my old USB drives and I found a flash drive that had a file called "SecretDrive.exe." When I ran it, it mounted a virtual floppy disk that contained stoke other files. There ...
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Using ready boost on a partition than USB drive [duplicate]
Is it possible to use ready boost on a partition of my HDD(I have only one) instead of a USB drive. I want to so this because sata write speed is faster than USB. Thanks
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USB drive not getting recognized as scsi device in custom linux kernel
I am facing a slow write speed problem with a USB drive in my custom linux kernel. I suspected to be a hardware problem but with the same hardware and Opensuse 12.1 OS, write speed of my USB drive is ...
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USB flash drive disconnecting and reconnecting continuously [closed]
I have almost the exact same issue as described here with my flash drive, but on Windows 7.
My flash drive disconnects and reconnects continuously every few seconds, on the USB 2.0 ports, BUT on my ...
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USB flash drive disconnecting and reconnecting continually
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One of my flash drives is continually disconnecting and reconnecting on Windows XP. I plugged it in and for few seconds I can see a drive letter in "My Computer". After few seconds it ...
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Is it a sign of trouble when Windows mis-recognizes the brand/model of my thumbdrive?
I have an assortment of USB thumbdrives, which I use often on a few different Windows 7 machines. Occasionally, when I insert one or the other of them, Windows will completely mis-identify it--I'll ...
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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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Does flash-memory integrity depend on system resources while reading/writing (like CDs/DVDs)?
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I’m really concerned that flash-memory is just not reliable as a storage for irreplaceable files. Does anybody know if the integrity (corruptibility) of flash-memory (flash-drives, memory-...
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In/out-error, lost document
I had a document in a folder on a flash drive, and when I went to open it, it was nowhere to be found. Initially I thought it was something wrong with the USB stick where the folder was located, but ...
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How does BIOS read from flash storage without installing driver first?
Whenever we plug in a new thumb drive, we get a pop-up saying Installing Device Driver and then after sometime the autorun dialog pops-up.
So when installing another OS from bootable flash drive - ...
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Nuke thumbdrive and set GPT+Partition
After using my 16GB USB2.0 thumbdrive as an ESXi boot stick I am now unable to format it. Windows Explorer would just say:
The drive could not be formatted (or something likewise)
Diskpart is able ...
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Can a rfid / contactless reader damage a USB flash drive?
I own a very small usb flash drive I like to carry in my wallet but recently I started using contactless cards (bank, transport) and I'm worried the induction power readers emit might damage / corrupt ...
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I have sandisk cruzer force 16Gb thumb drive for booting linux
I have a sandisk cruzer force 16Gb thumb drive that i want to use as a 'usb boot device' for an old laptop with no hard drive or windows recovery disk (IF it is possible).
I have seen mention of '...
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How to repair USB flash drive?
I have some kind of 8 Gb Feiya Technology Corp. Flash Drive, which is stopped working - it is seen by the system, but I can not write any info there. I tried to use some of Transcend recovery tool and ...
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External Drive Detected but not Recognized
I have a 32 GB Kingston USB 3.0 pendrive which had write permission problems. After searching around and trying a USB Low Formatting Tool which never managed to get past 30%, I used the command line ...
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USB not correctly formatted
I have formatted a usb flash drive withs size of 2,5 GB and now it shows me that it's size is 8 MB. How can I fix it to be 2,5 GB again?
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Windows detects all flash drive file systems as RAW
My computer that's running Windows 7 detects all flash drive file systems as RAW, and thus shows an error message to format them as soon as they're plugged in.
I tested all the flash drives in other ...
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Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 64GB Write speed drops
The problem started about a week ago. My Sandisk USB drive normally writes at 150-200MB/s (SSD to USB drive) but all of a sudden the write speed dropped to 5-10MB/s.
The problem keeps occurring: it ...
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Boot of the Ubuntu not recognize pendrive
I'm using Ubuntu 4.14 on my notebook Samsung NP270E4E, I gave permission for 0777 "etc" folder (which I should not have done), then want to re-install ubuntu 14:04 in my notebook, the problem is that ...
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Taking ownership of a 64 GB USB flash drive
Whenever I try to take ownership of my Kingston DTSE9G2 64 GB USB 3.0 flash drive the Windows Security / Explorer windows gets stuck on "Changing ownership of:" which never recovers, even if ...
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How to remove undeletable USB drive partition
I received a free 2 GB USB from my school and was wondering if I can remove the small partition of 6 MB that they reserved to store a html file that will take me to a website link for information ...
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How to convert iso file to USB (don't even know how to mount)
I'm a total total noob who is trying to download Linux Mint on a Mac OS X using a (8 GB) USB flash drive. I know there is some way to go into terminal and convert the iso file, but I don't know how.
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USB Drive not working with Windows 7. Works on Linux and Windows 8/8.1
I have a USB thumb drive (PNY 128GB) that works fine with Windows 8/8.1 and with Linux, but does not work on Windows 7. Doesn't show up at all. I have tried formatting it in both Win8 and Linux (...
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Changing drive names in windows 7 won't stick
Tried the Admin Tools route, tried right-click "Rename" over the drive icon and also tried this method, which as far as I can tell, does not really rename the drive but the usb port where it is ...
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Dead flash drive, can't format or partition
Today I when I was working with my flash drive (thumb drive) it gave some errors in different OS. Now I can't format it. I tried in MacBook and got this error.
Posix report: the operation couldn't be ...
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How to access an ejected USB flash drive without removing and plugging it back in [duplicate]
If you eject a USB flash drive in Windows and do not remove it from the port, you cannot access it any more unless you remove it from the port and plug it in again.
How can you access it again ...
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Bootable USB does not work [closed]
I tried to install Windows 7 on a bootable USB.
It was successful and it told me to reboot now. I clicked it and then it rebooted, and when I selected the USB on boot, this happened:
When I opened ...
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USB flash drive not recognized, but only on one computer - flash drive recognized by other computers and computer recognizes other flash drives [duplicate]
This question is similar to USB flash drive cannot be read only on a specific computer, but I did not do anything (that I know of) to trigger the change.
My Cruzer 4GB USB flash drive worked for a ...
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How to increase the Write speed of Usb 3.0 flash drive?
Currently i am getting the below mentioned average speeds while tranferring (Writing) a big video file of 2GB by using SanDisk ultra Usb 3.0 16 GB on WIndows 7 64 Bit on Lenovo B590 Laptop :-
Usb3.0 ...
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USB Flash Drive Sandisk Cruzer - Windows "Not Formatted"
So it initially works, then I used it on a Mac and unplugged it without safely removing it. Now on my Windows 7 Computer just displays a External Disk Drive and said it is not formatted.
Then I tried ...
