USB Flash Drives are portable USB drives that rely upon flash storage, also known as pen drives or USB sticks.
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Install Windows 7 from USB flash drive
I have an ISO of the Windows 7 installation DVD, but I can't burn it to CD or DVD. I have an empty flash drive with plenty of space; is there anyway I can put the ISO on it and install from it as if ...
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Installing Windows XP from USB pen drive
I want to install Windows XP on my desktop computer (only XP) but my CD drive is not working.
I've only found installation tutorials on how to install it on the pen drive rather than from the pen ...
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How do I place a bootable ISO on a USB drive?
What's the best way of placing a bootable ISO on a USB drive? ISOs such as a live Linux preview disk, Windows installation ISO, etc.
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Booting Linux off USB pendrives
Booting a Linux system off USB Pendrives is one of my favorite things.
On a laptop we have the following advantages,
The Harddisk can be shutdown and that reduces power consumption (hdparm)
The ...
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How do I recover files from an USB flash drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
flash drive ejected improperly- lost files
I have a USB flash drive that claims it needs to be formatted every time I put it into my computer (Windows). Yesterday the ...
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Can I install Windows OS (Windows 7) on a removable USB hard drive?
I wanted to take a sneak peak at Windows 7 so I thought of installing it. I have Windows Vista on my laptop which came pre-installed with it. I didnt want to mess with it.
So I created a partition ...
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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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Using UDF on a USB flash drive
After failing to copy a file bigger than 4G to my 8G USB flash drive, I formatted it as ext3. While this is working fine for me so far, it will cause problems if I want to use it to copy files to ...
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How do I recover files from an USB flash drive?
I have a flash drive that was used primarily on a Mac, and it was ejected improperly.
Now when I put it back in, the computer (I tried 2 different Macs and 3 PCs) does not even register the flash ...
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Ubuntu - Automatically mount external drives to /media/LABEL on boot without a user logged in?
This question is similar, but kind of the opposite of what I want. I want external USB drives to be mounted automatically at boot, without anyone logged in, to locations like /media/<label>.
I ...
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What is the best way to keep a folder synchronized with my USB drive?
I know there is a similar topic on syncing between computers, but I'm looking for an application to run on one computer that will sync a "document/file" folder with a folder on my secondary/external ...
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USB stick appearing as hard disk drive, not removable storage device
I just plugged in a very simple 1GB USB stick from the office in hopes of making it a Fedora Live USB stick. For that to work, I need a removable storage device, or else it won't appear in LiveUSB ...
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Windows Installer using usb drive for temp purposes
When installing apps that are built around Windows Installer, it would appear that it often uses my external usb hard disk (when it's connected) as the temp location while it expands and installs the ...
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How to boot from a flash drive OS using VirtualBox?
I have two flash drive, one with Slax installed and another for Android x86 Live installed, but they do not boot in my laptop (in my work they boot perfectly).
I can boot from some live CDs/DVDs or ...
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How to encrypt an USB stick?
When storing personal data on a USB stick, data needs to be encrypted to ensure privacy. Regrettably, this is far from easy to do without introducing a lot of overhead; ideally, the whole encryption ...
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Why are USB flash drives so much slower than solid-state drives?
From what I understand, USB flash drives and solid-state drives (SSDs) are based on similar technologies, NAND flash memory.
But, USB flash drives are usually quite slow, with a read and write speed ...
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Flipping the Removable Media bit — alternatives to BootIt?
There's a utility called the Lexar BootIt utility that flips the Removable Media Bit on certain USB flash drives.
I want to flip the bit on my USB flash drive (it's supported) but really am not too ...
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“Need to format the USB Flash drive” message… can the data be recovered
I have a USB flash drive, that when plugged into any machine (XP, Vista or Windows 7) the following message is displayed:
Indeed looking at the drive in Disk Managment the file system is recognized ...
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Can Windows tell me what is using my USB drive?
Being the good citizen I am, I left-click on the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in my taskbar, and select my USB drive to dismount.
Then I get the message:
Windows can't stop your Generic volume ...
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Virus protection for flash drives
At school, there is a large network with lots of non-technical minded people and lots of viruses. How can I protect my flash drive from these worms and viruses so I don't bring them home and infect my ...
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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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How can I make a USB flash drive appear/not appear as a CD drive?
I recently was given a small USB flash drive as an advertising gimmick. When I plug it in, only one drive appears: a CD drive with 42kb used (just an autorun.inf file which launches the manufacturer's ...
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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 ...
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How to connect two Computers with USB?
There are two computers. The first one is the client, the second one is the server. The client needs access to some files on the server.
On the server it is possible for me to install any software ...
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USB drive not showing full size
I have a 4GB usb-drive. Just now i have formated it with fat filesystem. But after fomating its only showing 200MB instead of 4GB. I am using windows VISTA operating system... I am frightened....
Can ...
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Creating a Windows XP installation flash drive in linux
How can I create a bootable flash drive to install Windows XP from under Linux?
I have Ubuntu installed on my PC and want to install Windows XP parallelly. I already have an NTFS hard drive, so what ...
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RAIDing flash drives
The other day I had what I thought was a great idea - I could buy up a bunch of cheap USB 2.0 drives and fill up the spaces in my 7-port USB hub for a super-fast RAID device! But in the light of day ...
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Serve up PC hard drive as USB mass storage
Is there a software package available that can serve up a hard-drive internal to a PC and make it available over USB to other USB Master nodes as mass storage?
Ex: take your C: or /dev/hda drive on a ...
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How to mount a USB thumb drive as “Fixed” instead of “Removable”
I have over 8 GB in my "Code Library" that I maintain on a 64 GB ScanDisk Ultra Backup USB Device.
Windows Search 4.0 (installed on Windows XP) can index removable drives, but Windows 7 ...
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Do not get 'Safely remove' option in Tray for USB storage devices
I had done some tweaks in service settings (Disabled some as I thought it is not needed). Now, I am not getting the option to safely remove mass storage device when I click the icon on the system ...
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Persistent install of Windows 7 (or XP) on a USB stick
Persistent install of Windows 7 (or XP) on a USB stick
is this possible? So I move to another computer and during the boot process I boot the OS from my USB stick. I did not found any tutorial on ...
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How to “Un-Eject” a USB Flash drive — Eject is easy (safely remove hardware), but what about Un-Eject or Reconnect?
There are times after I eject a USB Flash drive, I want to copy some more files over to the USB Flash drive. In this case, do I always need to unplug the drive and plug it back in? Is there a way to ...
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Disable AutoRun for specific external drive
I have an external USB hard drive with two partitions on it. Every time my computer boots up Windows 7, I get two autorun popup windows. This is annoying; I'd like Windows to just mount the partitions ...
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Install Windows 7 through USB Drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Install Win7 from USB
Is it possible to install Windows 7 through a USB drive (considering that it's a fresh HD?)
My motherboard is a ASUS Maximus II Formula
If so ...
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Expanding Files 0%, error 0x80070017 Windows 7 x64 RTM
I have downloaded Windows 7 x64 from MSDN. I have checked the hash of the file and it is correct. I have them made a bootble USB stick (http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345 (had to use my vista bootsect.exe ...
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How do I burn an ISO on a USB drive on Mac OS X?
what's the best way to get an ISO "burned" to a USB stick on a Mac? Restoring using Disk Utility does not work.
The ISO is ubuntu mini.iso. It is the minimalist install ISO for installing ubuntu. It ...
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Multiple live CD ISO images on a single USB drive
I am looking to create a USB flash drive that I can put multiple live CD ISO images on and select which boots from startup. The ideal candidate supports Linux and Windows-based ISO images, and is ...
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What tools do you carry on your usb stick? [closed]
What tools do you normally carry with you on your usb stick ?
Like your favourite text editor, which you've got accustomed to; windows explorer replacement, maybe your personal wiki ? What else ?
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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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Ubuntu - How to automount an external drive at a preconfigured mount point?
Normally, when I attach an external USB drive to my Ubuntu system, the filesystem on it are automounted to /media/label. However, I'd like the filesystem to be mounted at a mount point of my choosing. ...
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How can I get data off of a damaged thumb drive?
A guy I work with just came by to ask me about a damaged thumb drive/USB flash drive. Apparently his son dropped it on a hard surface and it won't power up anymore. They've tried plugging it into ...
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How to make a multiboot USB key?
I want to cut my 8 GB USB key into several partitions to use WinToFlash for a Windows XP (maybe nLited before).
I also want to put the Framakey ubuntu-fr remix pack into it such that it has the ...
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How to “burn” ISO/img/cue+bin to USB drive?
I don't get it. Why is it so complicated to create a bootable usb from a disc image?
Disc images have boot sectors, so why can't you just write the raw LBA values from an image directly to a USB and ...
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Windows 7 boot from downloaded .iso
Downloaded Windows 7 .iso off the net and want to install from USB key on old laptop (previously/still running XP) that has no CD/DVD drive. Here's what I've got so far:
Read the instructions in ...
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Can I boot and run windows XP from a USB flash memory stick?
I know this can be done with Linux - curious if it's possible with XP (commenting on Vista or 7 is fine, too).
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How can I remount an ejected (not just unmounted) USB drive on Mac?
I frequently eject an usb stick, and then realize I still need it.
If I unmount the drive in Disk Utility, I can just remount it, but if I eject, it's gone.
Not showed in Finder
Not showed in ...
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How disable mac snow leopard creating .Spotlight-V100 and .Trash folders in USB Flash Drivers?
Everytime I put a USB Flash Driver the Mac OS X creates 2 folders .Trash and .Spotlight-V100. Is it possible to disable this operation?
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Looking for a USB Thumbdrive / Flash drive encryption solution (not TrueCrypt) [closed]
I am looking for a USB Thumbdrive / Flash drive encryption solution. I have searched the net but I have never come accross a solution which meets the following:
Must handle at least 4GB volume
If ...
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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 to create a Windows 7 installation usb media from linux ? (to install Windows 7) - Help need to know better method
I have been reading some web pages and posts here and in other forums about how to create a Windows 7 installation Usb media (to install windows 7 using a usb) from linux.
I asked in technet about ...
