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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Diagnosing and repairing USB3.1 Flashdrive
I gave a friend my flash drive and upon collecting it, I discovered that there was a new folder on my flash drive and I suspect this is the root cause of the problems I'm experiencing with the flash ...
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How to fix corrupted USB drive
My pendrive was working perfectly fine until I plugged it in the back of my school computer to show my project. The pendrive did not show up there. When I brought it home and plugged it into my ...
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Converting flash drive from RAW to exFAT and restoring it original storage capacity [closed]
My flash of 1TB became 8MB and its system type showed RAW rather than exFAT when I used it to transfer some document and after some while when I try using it again it shows me that I should format it. ...
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USB Flash Drive Mounting and Unmounting Issues in linux
I'm seeking assistance as I delve into learning the Linux file system, and I've encountered a specific issue regarding the mounting and unmounting of a pendrive. Upon initially inserting the pendrive ...
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Windows 10 and hardware upgrade: strange behaviour after safe usb unplugging, that leads to data corruption on all hard drives
I recently upgraded several components in my PC, including the motherboard (ASUS Prime x670-p), RAM, GPU (Nvidia 1070 to Nvidia 4090), and CPU (Intel i7-6700k to AMD Ryzen 9 7950x). My previous setup ...
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"Ghost" USB Drive in My PC
Ever since I switched SSDs and installed Windows 10 Pro in the one I'm using right now, I see a "ghost" drive (a not existent drive in gray) that only says "Insert a Disk in USB Device (...
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Cannot format USB stick to FAT32 while burning Linux Mint Cinnamon Edge using Rufus
I wanted to install Linux MINT on my computer. I downloaded Mint and Mint Edge .iso files. When I opened Rufus to burn them to a USB stick, it couldn't format the disk to FAT32 when I selected the ...
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WinX. FULLY functional USB Flash Drive stopped working when usin a recovery tool (EaseUS). EaseUS became unresponsive, leading to the drive errors [duplicate]
USB SanDisk 3.2Gen1 USB Device (64Gb Flash Drive)
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EaseUS
The drive is visible in Windows Explorer but... if I click to open it... the cursor changes to the hourglass icon for about 40 seconds....
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How to boot my laptop from USB pendrive with Fedora
I have a laptop with Windows 11 installed. I wanted to change the OS to Linux, specifically Fedora. I installed Fedora Media Writer and created a bootable pendrive (Fedora Workstation 38). I changed ...
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Installing GRUB2 to a USB drive as a backup bootloader
I want to install GRUB2 onto a drive with no iso on the drive, but as a secondary bootloader. I'm using archlinux and want a backup that doesn't have to be hard installed on my machine. How would I go ...
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2-of-3 USB Data Backup
I have 3 usb sticks and have data that needs to be backed up securely.
The 3 USB-Sticks will all be stored in different places and I want NO files to be recoverable from just one stick - I want it to ...
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Hard drive from ultrasound machine will not allow me to copy image files to USB
I have an ultrasound machine with a USB port so I can copy image files to be viewed on a PC. In the first few years, any USB I plugged in was able to copy files. Recently, the machine will not allow ...
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Save Key Pair - From Terminal - Not To Persistent Storage - Tails
So . . . I am not using the persistent storage since it defeats the whole point of Tails. I am trying to save my PGP key pair to a secondary thumb drive (not the one tails is on) to be able to either ...
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Recover Pendrive
I accidentally made my pendrive (Sandisk) bootable with windows 11 on which I had kept important backup files. Is there any solution to recover data on that pendrive. I think (but not sure) previously ...
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Anything in bios that would prevent one from being able to install from usb to usb?
I have a gen 8 x1 yoga work computer (its my employers) that I occasionally want to use for personal things but obviously not on the work install (windows). On previous laptops I have been able to ...
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Partially corrupted jpg photos on pendrive. Possible causes and how to fix?
After connecting a pendrive to a bad USB1.0 port (bad electrical connection, keeps connecting and disconnecting) and trying to read some of the photos in it and to copy them to the hard drive on ...
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Surface Pro 3 suddenly will not boot from USB
I created a bootable Ubuntu 22.04 USB stick and successfully booted from it on a Surface Pro 3. I successfully "tried" ubuntu on the Surface Pro, and then decided to go ahead and install. I ...
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How to make USB flash drive immutable/read only forever?
I need to provide some proof for the judge on a pendrive. I bought new 32GB pendrive and would like to upload 8MB file on it and make the pendrive read only forever, so nobody tampers with it.
Is it ...
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Unknown process always does something with all USB drives
Every time I'm trying to format any of my fully empty USB stick I get this error.
Every time I'm clicking on the button "eject" to any of my fully empty USB stick in Windows Explorer I get ...
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Linux mint on pendrive after shutting down a system goes back to default mode
I have a problem that after shutting down Linux mint (which I have installed od pendrive) all go back to default setting such as sensitivity of mouse or system colors. Also I lost all aplications I ...
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Windows Explorer detected wrong drive total space
Note: This is not a duplicate of:
Windows explorer displaying wrong free space
Windows Server 2008 r2 reports wrong hard drive free space
Windows 10 reporting wrong hard disk free space
Drive Space ...
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Can I boot Windows 11 cloned with Clonezilla from USB stick
I have cloned Windows 11 ver. 22H2 (64-bit) installed initially on my HP Elitebook 840 G9 with Clonezilla. This notebook has NVMe with 512 GB capacity. Yet I use this notebook with Linux and have ...
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Flashing DBAN from linux
I need to flash DBAN on a USB-Drive for work to wipe some hard drives. Also I am creating a "tutorial" on how to use DBAN for my colleagues but I ran into a problem. Our computers run on ...
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Is it possible to recover an ISO image from a balenaEtcher flashed drive?
First of all, I might have no choice in this matter anyway. Recently I flashed an OEM Windows image onto a flash drive using balenaEtcher. This drive is not bootable currently and I suspect it's due ...
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How can I do the work of Universal USB Installer from Linux?
I want to create a live USB for Linux Mint that is the same as, or comparable to, what would be done via the pendrivelinux.com Universal USB Installer on Windows, but done from Linux.
Is this possible,...
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Making recovery media ISO bootable on USB flash drive
I am trying to "burn" the ISO recovery media file from Paragon Hard Disk Manager to a USB flash drive, but balena Etcher warns:
The image does not appear to contain a partition table, and ...
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A USB pen drive being used to run a persistent Live debian system randomly generates "tag#0 device offline or changed" errors in the middle of use
For the last fourteen years I have been running Linux from USB pen drives, using an install of Debian Live running in persistent mode. I am irrationally in love with running Linux this way.
I ...
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dd not zero filling flash drive
I have a sd card, wich works fine, and ubuntu 23.04, and dd does not fully mirror a disk image. example:
expected:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
$ strings /dev/sdb
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$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/...
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how to allow using only specific usb flash drive in windows
The company I work for sells devices that run Windows 10/11, I need the device only use our company's usb flash drive, the total requirements are:
When other U disk is inserted, it should not be ...
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Does it improve data longivity if I power up a usb drive once a while?
I'm using a UAS(USB attached SCSI) USB drive for photo archiving (Kingston DataTraveler Max, with Silicon Motion 2320 UAS contoller, zoned psudo-slc + TLC). I know that NAND flash needs to be powered ...
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Dead USB: Is there a way to recover data from it?
I have this USB stick which seems to be dead.
dmesg -w command:
[ 6283.970828] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 16 using xhci_hcd
[ 6284.123086] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=048d, ...
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Pendrive or SD card partition at specific place [closed]
Usually Windows places first partition at 2048 sector. However I encountered different other places for which I need to ask you:
Why manufacturers usually place partition in different places? (...
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how to create a mac operating system pendrive on a chromebook
I'm trying to create a Macosx (pendrive, installer, downloadable file), for a wiped Macbook Air on a Chromebook. Using the base Chromebook operating system, it's rather foreign to me and I do not ...
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What might cause a flash drive to only work when partially pulled out?
The other night I was transferring some files from my flash drive to my Windows 10 PC, and File Explorer crashed mid transfer. I removed the flash drive, but when I inserted it again File Explorer ...
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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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