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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USB used as bootable but when I deleted from disk management the unallocated left is 8gb out of 32GB
I used GPT bootable disk but didn't boot when I tried installing. So wanted to format the disk back to normal but can not format. So I went to disk management and delete all files in usb but the ...
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Slow write speed on USB 3.0 thumb drive
I am achieving approximately 6 - 7 MB/sec writes to a USB drive. According to Wikipedia the theoretical speed is over 300 MB/sec. Even allowing for marketing hype, this is a very large gap.
My ...
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Corsair GTX USB drive slow loading using USB 3.0
Corsair GTX USB drive slow loading using USB 3.0.
This happens in every system I have. Windows 10 or 11.
I have 3 of these USB drives and they all do the same thing.
In the USB 3.0 port it takes 1-2 ...
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Dual booting Linux distros using images sourced from USB drives
I have 2 USB flash drives each with a bootable Linux distro.
I believe that I can use Gparted to copy each of them onto separate partitions on a single (clean) SSD.
USB drive 1 with Linux 1 -> SSD ...
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NanoPi / DietPi - Enable USB serial and USB mass storage
I got a NanoPi NEO LTS running latest version of DietPi. The board has two USB ports (One micro and a 2.0) and an Ethernet port.
What I'd like to do:
Connect Ethernet to a different network than my ...
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Is it possible for HDDs to have a fake/spoofed capacity similar to what is done with fake high size flash drives?
You often see or hear about these insane flash drives with 2TB capacity that sell for ridiculously low prices that actually are 16GB or 32GB flash drives but keep overwriting data so it looks like ...
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Intermittent Issue with the USB port on the front of the case (working only after a reboot)
I recently updated my PC setup and there seems to be a problem with the USB 3.0 port on the front of the case.
All other USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports are working well, but this single port behaves very ...
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Why does my computer destroy a brand new USB stick in minutes?
Since my English is not good, I use machine translation. This may be a strange sentence, but thank you in advance.
I connected a brand new USB stick to my computer and tried to use it as normal, but ...
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Windows 11 and USB sticks with multiple partitions
Has Windows 11 brought back the limitation where it only shows the first partition on USB flash drives? I have been able to use USB sticks with multiple partitions since the Windows 10 Creators Update ...
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USB thumb drive misbehaving on one PC - 100% load indicated, and files on it are barely accessible
I have a problem with one specific PC and one specific USB flash drive. The drive works on other computers, and I have other USB flash sticks (different models) that work on this PC.
The problem looks ...
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Is it possible to track USB drive events from windows event-log? [duplicate]
Is it possible to list recent insertion/removal events from the Windows journal?
If so, can 'safe removals' be distinguished from abrupt extractions?
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Synchronizing folder with flash drive?
I have a USB flash drive that's almost always plugged in. I need to synchronize the contents of a folder on my hard drive with the contents of the flash drive, so that on the rare occasion of me ...
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Does a Windows 10 repair flash drive need to be one used for installation?
I want to make a backup of the USB flash drive which I recently used to install Windows 10, on a second flash drive. For the backup flash drive, is it best to create a new one using the media creation ...
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USB Drive Not Working (Not responding to anything) [duplicate]
I am not able to use my HP 8GB USB drive for some reason, I really don't know what's going on. I've attached all the relevant screenshots below. Could someone please look into this and tell if it is ...
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(udisks-error-quark, 0) error while trying to open my USB flash memory
I had an Ubuntu 22.04 running wth no problems but decided to change my SSD card and install the exact same Ubuntu on a new SSD. So I copied some important files into a USB flash memory and after it ...
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Emulate USB flash drive for CNC machine [duplicate]
Our CNC machine (Laguna Swift) can only read files from a flash drive. I was wondering if there is a way connect the CNC machine to a Windows 10 computer via USB-A to USB-A cable and share a folder to ...
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Drive name greyed out in safely remove hardware option and no eject option present
The option to eject is not present and the drive name is greyed out.
I tried RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll in Run and it is not able to stop there as well.
I tried unmounting ...
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Is there anyway to download linux commands from a distro's repositatory into a usb stick?
Recently, we bought a motherboard that requires everything to be the ABSOLUTE latest OS, drivers, etc or it won't run. However, we figured out how to force it into Legacy Mode to install an old Linux ...
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USB write-protect hardware/firmware based or not
I've got one old brandless giveaway USB flash pendrive, but two disks show up on the running systems instead. One of them is writable but the other is readonly even if there isn't physical write-...
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Usb drive died after zeroing out with dd, appears as Generic_USB_Flash_Disk-0:0 with size appearing undefined (-)
I have USB drive and I wanted to install Arch GNU/Linux on a old laptop so I decided to flash Arch GNU/Linux Iso but I noticed that when I booted into arch installer, it shown garbled data in the boot ...
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Mark partition as readonly on flash drive
I have a flash drive that I've encrypted using VeraCrypt. I'd like it to be portable and useable on any computer (pretty much), so I've partitioned it like so:
Flash Drive
- Traveller (Fat32), ...
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Windows: assign letter to removable drive depending on USB port
For an application I need to assign a specific drive letter to any removable drive inserted depending on the USB port (USB1 to A, USB2 to B, etc...).
Is it possible ? I know how to specifically assign ...
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Why do some USB drives turn into 0 byte storage devices instead of ejecting?
I have two PNY Turbo Attaché 3 USB 3.0 Flash Drives. When I try to eject either of them, they don’t get ejected. Instead, the device resizes itself to become zero bytes large. If I try to eject the ...
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USB SanDisk: the persistence of data [duplicate]
For how long may I safely have stored data on this USB 512GB flash disk before it becomes unreadable or the data evaporate away ?
I mean is there a difference whether I push them into USB port from ...
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How to fix USB flash drives showing unallocated space in diskmgmt?
I have 3 USB flash drives (newly purchased, original) which were used to create bootable drives to install Zorin OS on a PC. The flashing failed for some reason, and now I have 3 USB flash drives ...
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What is the meaning of the blue LED flashing slowly in SanDisk USB 3.0 flash drive?
I have a SanDisk (hopefully genuine original) flash drive that is likely near the end of its life.
As I have more of similar models, I noticed a difference (while there should not be any access to the ...
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Meld doesn't display files after changes
I'm using Meld to compare between a laptop and a flash drive (FAT32 partition system) on Xubuntu 22.04 OS.
If I change files on a directory the laptop, it won't show up when I compare to the other ...
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DD copy prematurely reports "no space left on device". Beyond hardware failure, what could have caused that?
I have an embedded device booting from SD card with 8GB internal flash (enumerating at /dev/mmcblk1). I used to be able to manipulate the flash just fine (as in, I know that it is actually 8GB and ...
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How to indicate to Ventoy (Bootable USB) to ignore some content in the pen drive?
For some laptops where do not exist the CD-ROM, for boot purposes can be used Ventoy
A New Bootable USB Solution - sadly so far is mandatory apply just only once time a formatting process to the pen ...
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microSD card doesn't preserve data and format
I recently bought a new 512GB Toshiba PRO Plus microSD card, SDXC card, to be used with a USB type-A adapter on Ubuntu or SolusOS (linux distro) primarily and to take backups of some 7zip encrypted ...
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disk is inaccessible in windows and can't format because its write protected [duplicate]
something is wrong with my USB flash drive , when I plug it in I get the E:\ is inaccessible error saying I have to format it if I want to use it
but when I try to format it it says that my disk is ...
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Do USB memory sticks and memory cards not have S.M.A.R.T. data on-board?
As I understand it, USB memsticks (and memory cards) use the same basic technology as SSD disks.
But then why does CrystalDiskInfo detect and show all kinds of information for all my HDDs and SSDs, ...
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Cant Write/Read/Format a USB stick [duplicate]
I have a USB stick with the capacity of 32gb. I once backed up my zip files on my smartphone (total of 2.2gb) and I was able to use it with no problem. After few weeks when I try to use the USB stick ...
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How to turn off write protection on sandisk memory stick? [duplicate]
I have a very new memory stick that seems to have gone into a write protection and I can't turn it off.
I have checked the device physically to see if there is a switch on it and there is not (SanDisk ...
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Cant get to BIOS menu pages (Insydeh20 setup utility)
I have been trying to boot a USB pen with the gparted live, but it seems it is not detected. Most solutions that I found require me to access the BIOS setup where I should change the boot priorities ...
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Are there good reasons NOT to have a physical “unmount” button on USB thumb drives? [closed]
There are always the odd cases where file loss happens due to people unplugging USB drives without unmounting them.
Some users find the unmount process (at least on on windows) to be tedious or ...
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Computer not booting from USB
I have an old ThinkCentre A70 with the latest Ubuntu version on it. I have downloaded the windows iso and formatted on a flash drive. I have configured bios to make it boot from usb but it just will ...
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Adding custom text after portable USB drive letter
Kinda fancy question, but how can I add custom text after portable drive letter name?
My DVD has the following name pattern:
Label (DriveLetter:) CustomText
But my other USB portable drive has:
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Does MacOS locally store information about external drives?
I used a borrowed Mac to transfer sensitive data directly between two USB thumb drives. Ideally, I'd like to not leave a single trace of the files and transfers on the borrowed Mac, but I understand ...
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Why did Teracopy show 100% progress so early?
I am trying to copy data from CD to my pen drive using Teracopy (software).
Even with data still left to copy, it started showing 100%. Why so?
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USB stick not recognized. "Set Address Failed"
My USB stick stopped working. When plugged into the USB port there will be a windows sound, stick will show up for a couple of seconds in the explorer (but cannot be opened nor right-clicked) and then ...
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Bitlocker Encrypted Thumb Drive Suddenly Stopped Working
for backup purposes I encrypted two mirrored thumb drives with bitlocker.
I usually leave them plugged in and they have been working fine until I rebooted my PC.
Now a notification keeps flashing ...
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How do I create a backup of my hard drive in small sections?
I have an old laptop with a 500Gb non-removable (soldered) hard drive. I am attempting to recover some data from the drive. After some reading, I've discovered that I should create a copy of the drive ...
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Set Windows in a mode that all USB flash drives inserted in the future won't require "Eject"
I'm working on an embedded computer in kiosk mode, where the users can insert an USB flash drive.
Even if I add a "Eject USB storage device" button in my app's GUI, often, some users won't ...
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If both USB memsticks and SSD disks use the same technology, why does only the latter "forget" data?
I recently learned (or was tricked into believing) that SSD disks actually forget all their data on them if left unpowered for just a year.
Assuming that this is true, and I've spent more than enough ...
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Do USB sticks and memory cards forget their data if left without power, just like SSDs? [duplicate]
I recently learned that SSDs actually forget data if left unpowered for like a year. This was shocking news to me.
But then I started thinking, and realized that while all my offline backup disks are ...
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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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USB port not connecting to or reading USB flash drives
I am working on a desktop running Debian Stable Linux and it is otherwise working very well. Only problem is that it is not connecting to USB flash drives. This is true for all its USB ports and I ...
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Force every external USB storage device (USB HDD, USB flash drives of any brand, etc.) to be assigned the same letter G:
I know the "Disk management" (diskmgmt.msc) way to assign a driver letter such as G: to a (currently physically present) specific disk or device. But here my question is a little bit ...
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USB drive failure after I unplugged while it was stuck in Rufus [duplicate]
The USB device isn't showing up normally, but Ubuntu shows it when I go to disks.
It shows "No Media", and I can't do anything to the device.
This isn't the first time similar things are ...
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