Questions tagged [usb-storage]

Storage drives connected by USB devices known otherwise as flash drive, USB stick, USB key and thumb drive. Also includes larger storage devices such as portable hard drives.

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How to set up a RPi to act as a USB slave device?

I want to connect my Pi (or any other inexpensive device, really) to my TV via USB. This connection should have the TV as a master and the Pi as a slave. Network is not an option, as the TV supports ...
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Is it possible to prevent files on a usb drive from being searched on any computer?

I have searched, but all methods that I found need to be done on computers. I have a usb drive, and I may use it on different computers. It's impossible to set "Indexing Option" on every ...
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How to change the filesystem label on the vfat filesystem located on device /dev/sdb1?

I just followed the instructions from Cyberciti.biz to format my Kingston USB drive. Instead of ext2, I formatted the drive to vfat. I forgot to use the naming option when using mkfs.vfat (webpage ...
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How to write windows installation iso to usb hard drive

There seem to be many tools to write an ISO to a USB stick, but I am trying to write a windows installation ISO to an external hard drive, many tools don't even list it as an option to write to, what ...
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Install Windows 10 on external USB attached HDD - not bootable

I am trying to install a fresh Windows 10 onto a number of 2.5 inch HDDs. I have downloaded the Windows 10 iso. I have a caddy that can hold the 2.5 inch drives. The reading I have done indicates I ...
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External Drive with bitlocker enabled will not eject from Windows 10

External SSD with bitlocker enabled will not eject from Windows 10, the mbamagent.exe (bitlocker) is preventing the device from being stopped. This also happens with other USB hard drives without ...
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Cannot `cd` to E: drive using Windows CMD command line [duplicate]

I connected a camera to Windows machine through USB, but I am unable to access the device when I type "cd E:\" through command line. I can see the device through file explorer, and the drive ...
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What does “Synchronize Cache(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK” in dmesg mean?

When I power-off an external USB 3.0 SSD (hard drive enclosing containing a 2,5-inch Samsung SSD, attached via a USB 3.0 cable to a USB-A 2.0 or 3.0 computer port; the partitions have been already ...
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reformatting my ssd from ps4 to PC (windows 11)

I have a portable SSD I would like to use to store games on. I have used this ssd on my PS4 and now want to use it on my PC but i can't seem to open it on my PC the only thing i can do with it is ...
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Virtualbox can NOT mount an USB drive

I have on my laptop a windows system (windows 8), in which I have a Virtualbox installation(4.2.12, most recent). I have a virtual machine setup with the Virtualbox, and the OS is Ubuntu (12.0 LTS). I ...
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USB drive gets hot/warm even when computer is turned off (but power supply is plugged in)

I noticed something weird today. I left my USB drive (SANDISK) on my desktop computer. When I unplug the USB after a few days, I noticed that the USB drive is warm. (I didn't turn the computer on at ...
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Verifying USB connection speed (USB 3 or USB 2?)

I've purchased several new USB 3 capable drives to use with my new (USB 3 capable) laptop. They connect ok but I suspect they're silently falling back to USB 2. The sustained transfer rates I'm seeing ...
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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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My PC can't write to any USB external storage device but can write to my Phone storage

I recently noticed that I couldn't write files (or delete files) to any external usb storage using my PC. Here is what happens when I try to create a new folder. I can't get past the 2nd window popup....
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USB3 HDD write speed Debian 11 vs Ubuntu 22 (ESXi 7.0U3 VMs)

I have two VMs running on an ESXi 7.0U3g host. Both VMs are installed on an NVMe datastore (FYI for comparison below, note "usbspeed" vs "nvmespeed" tests), and have identical ...
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How to combine all partitions of USB flash drive?

I hope this is the right place to post this. I have an SP brand 32GB USB flash drive. When it was brand new I installed the TAILS OS on it and it seemed to create a bootable EFI system partition of ...
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SSD can't be formatted [duplicate]

I'm trying to get a fake 7TB SSd storage, that in reality is a 64GB SSD to work. I can work on a Linux machine as well. Until now, the disk is not formatable, I can't clean it using diskpart on ...
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Hacking an Automated Air Gap backup with USB drives

I am wanting to create an automated air gapped backup onto a couple of USB hard drives. (FWIW, the server these will connect to a Linux server). I'm fairly certain I can build a circuit which will ...
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Why is there a speed increase when using a USB 2.0 device with a USB 3.0 port?

I know this question, or similar questions, have been asked before, but still I am curious… My laptop has two USB 3.0 ports and—on occasion—I will plug in a Western Digital external hard drive which ...
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Is it safe to use a micro-USB 2 cable in a USB 3 portable hard drive?

The micro-B USB 3 port seems to be somewhat backwards compatible with the old micro-USB 2 standard. I was able to charge a phone that had the micro-B USB 3 port with a micro-USB 2 cable. However, I ...
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Unable to boot Ubuntu from external USB hard drive, kernel panic

The same system has booted fine in the past. Now, when I try to boot, it fails. In recovery mode, it ends in: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) The GRUB ...
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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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Windows File Sharing over Switch connected to multiple Gateways

The title might seems confusing, kindly suggest an edit if you have a better one. Here is the current setup. Question 1: All computers are using Windows 10, can i use File Sharing to all three ...
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Is a USB flash drive basically equivalent to a USB card reader plus an SD card?

Is a USB flash drive basically equivalent to a USB card reader plus an SD card (or microSD card)? Or are they really two different beasts? Related: Performance difference between SD and MicroSD cards?...
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Non-sensical message moving a file to external storage [duplicate]

So why is it a problem, on a Windows laptop with an external USB memory device (an empty 256 GB microSDXC card in USB reader, shows up as D: in explorer) to try to drag and drop a 4.86 GB file to it ...
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Is it possible to convert TLC SSD to SLC at the expense of cutting out the capacity?

3d TLC SSDs are good for use as daily driver these days, compared to planar TLC. But still TLC is TLC no matter how you call it, writing 3 bits in each cell. A few days ago I heard about P-SLC, short ...
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USB 3 works, USB 2/1 doesn't work. The Root Hub reports "HubIs2xCapable: 0 (Is not 2.x capable)"

The USB ports on my laptop only work with USB 3.x devices, but not USB 1/2. I've confirmed with a multimeter that the DATA+/DATA- pins are silent, even when talking to a USB 3.0 drive. What could ...
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What's the most robust data medium for long-term cold (shelf, archival) storage? [duplicate]

I've been looking, for some time, for a class of storage medium that's particularly well-suited to archival storage (also known as 'cold' or 'shelf' storage; ie literally leaving it unconnected from ...
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USB flash drive doesn't work properly after making it bootable

I burned Raspbian buster lite on my USB drive. Now I can only use it as storage. I can see the USB flash drive and I can copy on it, but it doesn't accept any burning tool anymore. What I have tried: ...
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Windows 10 - Won't recognise USB stick after one is removed

I have an issue with Windows 10, which has only appeared in the last month or so, where I can put a USB memory stick in and Windows 10 will recognise it and allow me to use it, but once I have "...
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Is it possible for multiple users to access a Samba share concurrently?

So I'm planning on mining Ethereum, and found that the blockchain is about 1 tb! None of my computers have the disk space to store this gargantuan blockchain. However I do have a 2 tb USB hard drive ...
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How can I safely eject USB disks in Openmediavault?

I have an external hard drive connected by usb to a PC with the Openmediavault Nas system. I'd like to be able to eject the drive out of the way and unplug it from power via a wifi plug when I'm not ...
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UAS USB driver problems with Linux, but not with windows, technical explanation

I'm also getting a lot of these uas_eh_device_reset_handler errors like alread described here https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/441668/debian-usb3-hdd-uas-i-o-errors : Feb 17 01:14:13 ...
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USB disk drive fails after sleep, but only some folders

I have a Seagate Backup Plus Drive connected via USB to my Windows 10 computer. I use it to save my backup files from Macrium home. After my computer has been in sleep mode and then restarted, I find ...
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Reconnecting USB drive

I have a Lenovo ThinkCenter M900 running Win10 Pro, all has been working well until recently. When I boot I can connect to an external USB drive. When I disconnect the drive there a an error in the ...
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Fastest way to clone a 128gb usb stick with over 100k files

I have a 128gb usb 2.0 stick and it has many small files. In total about 100k files and it takes at least 6 hours just to copy all these files onto another usb stick. What is the fastest way to clone ...
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Is it possible to recover this USB Drive?

I have a problem with my USB Stick. It simply doesn't show up in fdisk -l. I suppose it's dead (totally not possible to recover programmatically), but I'm just curious if it's wrong. Here are some ...
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Are usb 2.0 limitations below 150 mbps for hard drive file share

I'm planning on having a Raspberry Pi in my basement with a copuple of usb 3.0 hard drives so it would work kinda like a NAS. The USB drive can only do about 150 mbps which is fine but I'm looking at ...
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How much current can an externally powered USB3 hub supply to each port?

Problem Description: I have a WD My Passport 4TB 2.5" USB3 HDD (bus powered). I've been using it as network drive connected to the USB2 port of a Pi3 for 18 months now. Over the last few months ...
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Create a Virtual USB disk drive and connect it to Virtual Box

I have created a virtual USB removable disk using imdisk http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/ using commands http://diddy.boot-land.net/firadisk/files/imdisk.htm (eg. imdisk -a -s 2104515b -m R: -f ...
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Linux USB mass storage gadget issues with large drives

I'm trying to make a linux device act as a large USB drive with a USB port in OTG/device mode. The g_mass_storage module works well with backing files up to 2Tb of size, but I can't find a way to ...
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Corrupted USB Drive in exFat format

I was backing up some files from my laptop to my 1TB USB Drive in exFat format. During the file transfer, the progress suddenly stopped and I got the message "The Semaphore Timeout Period Has ...
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Multiple bootable partitions on a USB drive?

Is it possible to create a functional USB drive with three different partitions: Bootable Linux installer Bootable Windows installer Storage If so, is it as simple as creating three partitions for ...
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Repairing USB drive

I'm attempting to repair a USB drive that I would like to use for booting Linux on my laptop. The drive was removed from the laptop while it was formatting and is unreadable now. However, if I open ...
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Determine which protocol is being used over USB?

How can I see which protocol is being used over USB? I would like to verify that NVMe is being used over Thunderbolt 3/USB 3. It behaves as the NVMe enclosure advertised–I could probably boot off this ...
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Program to convert a laptop into a USB storage

I usually have problems doing networks between two computers I have. My intention is to pass files from one to the other. I was wondering if there is any simple and easy program to install that gives ...
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How to transfer/stream data to multiple USB device in parallel

I am trying to transfer and/or stream data to multiple USB devices and/or storage simultaneously. For example, if I have a USB hub with 12 USB sockets connecting to 12 USB displays, I like all 12 ...
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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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Dual simultaneous USB flash drive between a PC and an embedded system?

I couldn’t decide which site to post this on, but figured this was the best fit. I’m trying to set up a testing environment for an embedded system running ChibiOS. This embedded system expects a USB ...
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Bootable USB HD

I have an USB external hard disk with windows DVD files AND my personal files To boot on this HD, all I had to do was change UEFI to Legacy on the BIOS Now, I don't have this option. Also, don't have ...

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