USB drives are storage drives connected by USB (Universal Serial Bus) to the computer. Tag usage Most common are the small devices known by various names such as flash drive, USB stick, USB key and thumb drive. Use the usb-flash-drive tag for these. USB drives can also come in larger storage ...
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Captiva SATA to USB 2.0 + Seagate Barracuda weirdness
We have got several Captiva SATA to USB 2.0 external enclosures which used to work fine with 1 and 2 TB Hitachi drives.
Now, Hitachi is gone so we had to switch to a different manufacturer and choose ...
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Cannot copy anything onto WD Elements 1TB External USB HDD
I have a Western Digital 1023 Elements 1TB External USB HDD. Recently, it has started an unusual problem. I cannot copy any file of any size on to that 1TB hard-drive, eventhough it has more than 400 ...
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USB 500 GB Drive now says its full w/ only 260 GB of data?
I just purchased a 500 GB Toshiba Canvio 3.0 USB Drive (one of those usb-powered portable 2.5" drives). Initially, Windows reported its size as 465 GB, with about 458 free.
My primary hard drive is ...
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How to share a folder as an USB mass storage device (from a raspberry pi)
I'd like to do something quite simple ... in my mind.
I've got an "old" photo frame with an usb port and SD card slot (but without networking) that I would like to keep in sync with my NAS "Photo ...
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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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Finding hardware details for USB keydrive?
I use Speccy on Windows to find what hardware is installed on a PC, but when it comes to USB keydrives, it doesn't tell much:
Device Kind: USB storage
Device Name: Disk drive
Comment: Audio Player ...
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I am receiving a message stating “unknown device” when i plug a usb or external hard-drive in my computer.
Having an issue with USB drives and windows. I cannot figure out how to solve it. What happens is when any external media I attach to the computer "IN device manager i receive this message "unknown ...
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Are there any advantages to USB-SATA over USB-IDE?
I have an external USB hard disk that I use with VirtualBox (the VM has exclusive access to the disk). It's an IDE disk. I've recently come into possession of a SATA hard disk of the same size.
Since ...
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Mount USB on Linux Single Board Computer for use in a C program [migrated]
I have inherited a project that logs data from a single board computer to a usb flash drive. The code that does this is written in C. The old code is:
//Get the Start time
sttime = ...
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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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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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Is USB2 too slow to stream videos from a wifi network?
I plan to get a network USB hub to hook to my router and then I want to stick a portable hard drive in which I plan to have all my videos and music.
Is this a good option? Is USB 2.0 too slow for ...
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How to determine whether a pen-drive is being used for the first time in a system?
Kindly give a detailed answer. Suppose I have a laptop and a pen-drive, and I insert the pen-drive into the laptop, how do I determine whether the particular pndrive is being used in the system for ...
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Is there a similar UNetbootin utility for a Toshiba External HDD?
Is there a similar UNetbootin utility for a Toshiba External HDD? Or can I use a Utility using the UNetbootin app. Thanks.
I misundertood the UNetbootin utility, I thought it was specific to ...
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How to check if a particular disk sector contains data?
Kangaru USB mass storage device duplicator
In the product description, one of the features it boasts is "Brief Mode", wherein it only copies those sectors that contain data. My question is, how does ...
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Seagate 3TB ST3000DM001 hard drive not recognized by Linux, causes fdisk to hang
I'm running Kubuntu 12.04. I have a brand new, never used Seagate 3TB ST3000DM001 hard drive. It's an internal drive. I installed it in a USB enclosure.
When I connect it to my PC, nothing happens ...
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How to check whether there is bad sector on a USB harddisk on OS X?
How can I check whether there are any bad sectors on a USB Hard Disk Drive?
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Is it worth to buy an external USB SSD drive for my laptop to increase performance?
I'm a programmer, and I use Eclipse for Java development. Recently I've installed an internal (SATA) SSD drive on my home machine, transferred Eclipse installation and project to it and noticed a ...
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How to track the USB storage devices connected to my Windows Server 2008R2 machine
We would like to monitor the unauthorized file copy from our local server to USB storage devices. We are not sure where windows logs all the USB storage devices connections.
Please tell me, Is there ...
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My external disk made a clicking noise. What should I do?
I have a USB2+Firewire external disk that made a clicking noise, and Mac OS X immediately unmounted it and put up a dialog box saying that a peripheral is misbehaving. The disk made a clicking noise ...
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How can I prevent Windows from setting and/or caring about dirty volume flags?
I have an external USB hard drive that Windows 7 doesn't properly recognize as being a USB device, it thinks it's a regular internal drive. As such, it won't let me eject it, and I've been using an ...
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Accessing an ATAPI Zip Drive via a USB-ATA bridge
I have an old Iomega Zip100 drive (labelled as ATAPI) which I'm trying to access via a USB-ATA/SATA bridge. Under Windows 7, plugging it in brings up an error in Device Manager (USB Mass Storage ...
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USB transfer speed “logarithmically” decreases. Why and can it be improved?
I have an external hard drive. Just today I tried to copy a bigger file (it was film of ~230 MB) and at first it rushed up until ~70%. There is started decreasing.
At first it started at around 56 ...
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How to stop Windows from needlessly requesting to format external hard drive?
I have Windows 7. My Freegate external hard drive runs via a Belkin 4-way USB hub shared with my Epson printer/copier. When printing, I am continually asked to format the drive. It contains 30 days ...
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Only 2 USB hard drives recognized when 3 connected in Windows 7
I've got 3 hard drives (with power supply, USB 2.0 and 3.0). They are all recognized by Windows7 x64 when they're plugged in individually, or when 2 of them are plugged in at the same time (on any of ...
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Why does the IronKey executable on Ubuntu 11.10 fail when executed?
When I plug my IronKey into my Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit laptop, the read-only partition mounts as usual at /media/Ironkey. However, when I change into the /media/IronKey/linux/ directory and try to execute ...
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Unable to install mass storage devices
For some reason, I am unable to install mass storage devices on my Windows 7 x64 machine. I see the error from the image below.
If I point directly at the usbstor.inf driver, I still get the error. ...
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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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How does one troubleshoot Windows hanging copying large files from external HDDs?
When I copy large file (for example over 4GB) from external WD MyBook USB 3.0 HDD to internal SATA2 HDD all of Windows just freezes. Copying files of any size on internal HDD is fine.
Today I copied ...
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Are USB hard drives really reliable enough to backup to?
I've been reading about backup solutions and have come across a number of people saying they use a USB external hard drive as part or all of their backup solution.
Are USB hard drives really ...
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How do I quickly copy 900,000 files?
I need to copy some data that includes 900,000 tiny files totaling around 30 gigabytes to a windows computer. However, it needs to be able to be copied and set up in under an hour and a half, and it ...
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No mounting a USB pendrive on Debian wheezy
The system seems to know that my pendrive in insert, but when I try to mount it, I cannot do it 'cause it not appears in /dev/.
I post the result of command
dmesg | tail -n 6
[ 647.763175] ...
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Better mobile mounting (Preventing automount of specific disk / partition)
I am trying to improve the way in which my phone is mounted on my desktop. I would like to find a way to prevent a specific partition on a specific disk from being mounted on my desktop running ...
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how to customize an icon for a usb stick on mac and automount a dmg file?
I want to make a custom icon to a usb stick on mac and show that instead of the ugly blank icon that exists by default
as I have to compile a presentation I want the users to be able to quick access ...
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TP-Link storage server accessing from Mac OS
I have a storage/print server by TP-Link
http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?categoryid=232&model=TL-PS310U
I just connect usb-storage to the print server and on windows I can access that ...
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Is there any way to determine what program or service is using a device when I try to eject it?
I keep getting a message like this. How might I debug / troubleshoot why this is being thrown?
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Ways of cloning a USB key without use of dd?
I am trying to clone a bootable USB key. Obviously dd would to the trick nicely, but since the actual size of the files on my drive is ~15MB I end up waiting for a bunch of minutes while dd copies ...
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Does sleep eject USB Drives?
I have a netbook connected to two USB HDDs when I'm at home, and most of the time when I take it with me I shut it down and then disconnect it. But sometimes (mostly monday mornings ;) ) if I'm in a ...
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How to mount a usb drive when pnp recognizes it but Disk Manager does not
Running Windows XP pro, I have attempted to read an older internal HD via an usb interface and external power supply. The drive spins up and appears to run as it should. Windows recognizes the drive ...
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Why are some 2.5 USB boxes limited to some specific capacity?
Shouldn't the drive itself specify the capacity and the case is just an adapter?
Example: http://www.amazon.com/SATA-Hard-Drive-500GB-Capacity/dp/B002BFA91C/ref=pd_cp_e_3
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Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH and 3TB WD My Book Essential
I have a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH and a 3TB Western Digital MyBook Essential that I wish to use as a NAS, I have formatted the drive with a single XFS partition, but when I plug it into the router the ...
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What does the “open as portable device” option in Windows do?
I just bought a new USB stick, and when I plug it in and open My Computer, the context menu for the USB stick has an option "open as portable device". Clicking it opens a new window that just seems to ...
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How to find storage Device type from Mounted Volume.
How to find Device type from mounted Device?
eg: Lets say, I have connected Sd card in Windows 7 environment, which gets mounted at location D:\ . Is there anyway to find if D:\ mounted volume is ...
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fdisk / sfdisk not saving partitions on USB drive
I am having some problems with an USB drive that is not working correctly, I am trying to recreate partitions with fdisk or sfdisk but once I do it I do "-l" and there's no partitions.
This is how I ...
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How to connect Western Digital “My passport” using other means?
I have a Western Digital My Passport 500Gb external Harddrive where the USB connection on the drive seems to have worn out. I am trying to retrieve the data for a friend.
Here is an image of the ...
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Auto mounting of “identical” external USB drives in Ubuntu swaps the mount points
I have 2 identical Western Digial Elements 1,5 TB external harddrives, but they are causing some problems when they mount. The problem is that the OS sees them as identical drives with the same ...
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How much power does a Western Digital Passport Essential SE require?
I have looked at the Western Digital website for my product (WDBACX0010BBK) and cannot find how much power the device requires.
The device is not recognized when I plug it into my keyboard's USB hub. ...
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How to see if USB stick has MBR?
I have a USB stick supposed to be bootable, but the computer does not boot it. I suspect that there is no MBR (Master Boot Record).
How do I test if this is so, preferably from command line in ...
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Create an .iso from USB drive [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Where do I download Windows 7 (legally from Microsoft)?
I have Win 7 on a USB stick, non-iso. How do I get an iso of that?
