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 safely remove an SDHC card without disabling the SDHC USB adapter? (Windows)
I have a USB card adapter I want to leave attached to my PC forever. When I insert a card, write things to it, and then I want to remove it, I don't have an option to just commit to that card -- just ...
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How to preserve Windows 7 shares located on USB media?
About a year ago, I installed Windows 7 on an old laptop to use it as a file server. The laptop itself has a pretty puny hard disk, so I hooked up two 500GB external drives.
After only a few days I ...
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How to access USB flash drive in VirtualBox?
I’m using MacBook pro and I have installed VirtualBox for using Windows XP. I can’t access USB flash drive when I connect. The USB flash drive is not showing in the workspace. How I can access a USB ...
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How to unlock and remove a protected partition from Prestigio USB stick?
I have one of those fancy schmancy devices, which is given to me by a frustrated friend of mine.
Device is a Prestigio Leather 8GB
It identifies itself to Linux host as:
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1307:...
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Cannot properly format pendrive on Ubuntu 10.10
I put Jolicloud on a pendrive to install it to my laptop, tried it out, didn't like it, and installed ubuntu with a CD instead. Now I want to use my pendrive for storage, so I popped it in, loaded up ...
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Transfer speed of Drobo vs. internal drives?
This question makes me reconsider Drobo, but I have a concern about data transfer rates. Wouldn't the USB (or LAN) connection be a significant bottleneck to my system?
My home media center PC has a ...
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Windows 8 / 8.1 USB file transfer consistently freezes whole system
I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro (64 bit) on a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H (rev 1.0) motherboard with a Samsung 830 SSD and 8GB of RAM. All is normally well in general day to day use.
However, when I plug in a ...
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Android 4.4: access smartphone as USB memory
When connecting my old Android 2.3-based smartphone with a PC, I get a notification to enable it as USB memory. When I try the same with my new Moto G (Android 4.4.2), I don't get such a notification. ...
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How do you write a bootloader to the MBR?
I was trying to write a bootloader in the assembly language to a USB drive, to test it on another computer. The bootloader (should) work with intel processors. The computer I'm testing it on (windows ...
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Internal drive bottleneck for usb to usb transfer?
Say, I want to copy the contents of a USB 3 hard drive to another USB 3 hard drive. My computer has USB 3 ports, so that's ok.
Would the internal drive be a possible bottleneck? I.e: While ...
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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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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 MB/...
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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 Autorun a .html file from USB drive?
How to Autorun a .html file from USB drive? File should be run on Mac and Windows Both.
I'm using this but it's not working
[AutoRun]
shellexecute=loading-intro.html
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I want to dedicate one USB port to a VirtualBox OS
I am specifically creating a VirtualBox environment to deal with malware files. When I connect my USB pen-drive, I want it to be opened in the virtual environment, but the main environment i.e., ...
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Why are USB flash drives slower than SATA SSD's?
As a broad generalization current generation SSD's have write performance of around 500MB/s.
Premium USB flash drives have write performance of circa 170MB/s, looking at Kingston Predator and Patriot ...
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Loss of space on a 16 Gb flash after format
So, I have a friend who has a flash drive that was playing music on a dvd player. Everything was great then all of a sudden it just stopped. First, I tried to do some data recovery on it but the ...
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Windows Surface USB Recovery Drive
My friend lost her password to her tab and she cannot log back in to her tab, and being the leet haxor that I am, I know that the only way to refresh her tab and keep all her important course ...
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Is it true that a hard drive need to be used once in a while to stay alive?
I have heard someone saying that someone else said hard-disks need to be "moved" once in a while, meaning it has to spin or data has to read or written to once in a while or something like that.
I am ...
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How can I repair my USB drive?
USB drive is in read only state and I can't repair it.
First of all I tried erase it using dd:
root@yurko-laptop:/home/yurko-laptop# ls -l /dev/disk/by-id | grep usb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Дек 18 ...
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USB mass storage device split to 2 devices
When I connect an Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 4TB hard drive in a Fantec DB-ALUE2e external SATA enclosure to a Lenovo T400 laptop using the USB 2.0 port, the hard drive gets split to 2 devices:
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USB 3.0 hard disk not detected on a particular host controller?
I have a USB 3.0 hard disk which has always been working on my desktop with an XHCI.
Now I just bought a notebook with an XHCI (something with Intel's Ivy Bridge setup). The first time I plug the ...
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Are external USB hard drives meant to be connected all the time? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it better to leave your computer on all the time?
This is a general question about external hard disk drives (hard drive). Is it healthy for the drives to be connected all ...
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Is there any actual harm to pulling the USB cable without disconnecting it first in the OS? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I unmount a USB drive before unplugging it?
I've never once in my life used a context menu or any other option to eject a USB device to disconnect it before pulling the ...
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failed to boot from usb-stick (ubuntu 10.04)
I have an Asus 1201n and it has a dual core Intel CPU which has 64-bit compatibility according to Intel's webpage. When I tried to boot from my Sandisk Contour USB-stick with the image from this link: ...
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A failsafe method of adding a picture to a USB drive background?
I'm struggling to get a background picture to 'stick' on a USB drive i'm setting up.
In OSX i open the USB drive, place the picture file on the drive, adjust my window size etc & set the View ...
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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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USB key with trash and invisible files into it : how?
I have an USB key, FAT formatted, used on a Windows configuration, and as far as I know, a Windows Vista one (this is not my own key).
On this key, I have 9 photos.
I discovered that the trash ...
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Using USB Drive for Multiple Windows Recovery Disk
I created a recovery disk of my laptop on a 2TB external hard drive. What I see is the recovery process leaves the un-used space on the external drive as un formatted which is not usable. I was ...
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USB mass-storage corrupt on portable Linux device – fixing it using Windows CHKDSK?
Due to some circumstances I forcefully shut down my Kindle DX (in fact, a Linux machine), holding the power switch for 15 seconds. I believe no processing or obvious file transfers were in progress ...
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GPT Protective Partition
I’ve moved my 3TB hard drive to another USB enclosure, and it no longer works.
Disk manager says “2794.52 GB Healthy (GPT Protective Partition)”.
How to fix that?
I don’t want to reformat, I need ...
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Pen-drive / USB-Drive not working after installing ubuntu in it
I put in ubuntu in pendrive and made pendrive bootable by unetbootin. Now the pendrive doesn't work anymore due to that, it is not opening, when I put in windows OS, it doesn't show its total space ...
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USB storage bricked? (0kb on windows AND linux)
Same device as on this question
I have a device which has been infected with a malware (the one which transform file to .lnk, windows shortcut). After cleaning, it didn t show on windows, but on ...
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After upgrading to Windows 8.1, external USB drive disconnecting and reconnecting intermittently
I upgraded from Windows 8.0 to 8.1 recently and ever since the external USB drive (with power supply) connected via a powered USB hub started disconnecting and then automatically connecting after a ...
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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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how to remove write protection in memory card?
I have a 4 gb micro sd card ,now my memory card is not properly working and when i insert card into phone it shows card is write protected..
it even not recognised in system give me a helpful solution ...
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USB drive acts like formatted
I put my USB hard drive to another computer at work (Windows 7) and after trying to read it for a while in the end it asked me that I need to format it before I can use it. Of course I said no. It was ...
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Independent hardware-based encryption tool, used with non-cooperative system and drive
I have a small embedded system that supports FAT32. It does not have any encryption options for the files that it saves to an external USB-connected disk. Modifying the source to support encryption is ...
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Cannot boot from USB Stick
I currently have Ubuntu installed on a USB stick, but when I try to boot from it, none of the boot options that start with USB work. There is a USB-HDD and USB-Zip, but both of them just skip and boot ...
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How can I format a USB drive as FAT from a MacBook Pro?
I plugged in a 250GB USB hard drive into my MacBook Pro and want to format it in FAT so I can transfer files back and forth between a windows machine.
(My windows7 machine only formats in exFAT which ...
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failed to format the device
I want to format my pendrive kingston 4 GB, but i can't. I used gparted in live cd(remove partition and create new) also program HP USB Disk Storage Formatting (error: failed to format the device) but ...
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Using ubuntu usb drive when dealing with windows
I work as a contractor and would ideally like to stay working in a linux environment.
I would like to use linux on my windows workstation but don't have the permissions to change the OS, install ...
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DriveImage XML fails with a Windows Volume Shadow Service Error
I'm trying to image a SATA laptop hard drive, using DriveImageXML, that is attached to my computer via a USB adapter. I'm running Win7 Ultimate 64 bit.
DriveXML is returning:
Could not initialize ...
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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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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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Why do some SATA to USB adapters list a maximum supported drive size?
Many SATA to USB adapters list a maximum supported size such as 4TB, 10TB, etc. Why?
For example, this adapter lists a 4TB max whereas this other popular adapter lists 12TB as the max supported.
Here ...
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How USB automount works internally in ubuntu 18.04?
I just want to understand how USB automount works in Ubuntu especially in 18.04. When an USB drive is connected to USB port what all things happen and what utilities or scripts or udev rules(probably) ...
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iPhone Memory Stick Windows Formatting (populating!) Q
SUMMARY: Can format but not populate either a FAT32 or ExFAT 128GB USB memory stick. Copying in files fails when more than 32GB are copied. Can't use NTFS because this stick is designed to work with ...
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Linux rw mount option results in ro filesystem
When I try to mount my external USB HDD under Debian Linux (v9.9, kernel4.9.0-9) I end up with an immutable read-only mount. The whole thing seems counter intuitive, I specify to mount the device as ...
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Windows dosen't see USB drive
My machine won't see a Lexar USB drive in File Explorer or Disk Management but it will see it in Device Manager as in this snip: USB drive appearing in Device Manager Screen Snip
As, I said, nothing ...
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