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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W10 Can't see whitelisted USB device after formatting
I have implemented several security policies that block USB devices based on their device ID's. However, when I format one of these devices, the policies prevent the system from recognizing it after ...
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Direct USB type C connection preventing SD card reader from being recognized
I have a micro SD card I want to read on my M2 MacBook Pro (Ventura).
I recently bought an adapter, that in theory is supposed to read said card.
On the manual the reader is described as a “T-Flash (...
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Fetch videos from a Sony Handycam DCR-DVD101 to Linux
I've got a Sony Handycam DCR-DVD101. When I plug connect the USB cable to my laptop (Ubuntu 10) it doesn't mount any storage device.
If I run usb-devices, I see:
T: Bus=02 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=00 ...
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Using TP-Link Archer VR400 as Access Point with a shared USB storage
I bought and set up a Archer VR400 as an access point (Connected LAN to LAN with the main modem-router, DHCP was disabled).
Everything looked like it is working.
The VR400 served one Lan client and ...
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I have a mounted USB disk (GoPro camera with SD card) in Debian 12 and am not seeing any data. Why?
I have mounted my external USB disk in Debian 12 (Bookworm). It's showing on the “Other Location” list. But, when I opened it, there is only EFI filesystem data.
It's a USB connected GoPro camera that ...
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USB to SATA adapter disconnecting and connecting and or erroring, only on one machine
I have two identical SATA to USB adapters (from Ugreen) one of which constantly disconnects and connects and or errors. It won't happen every single time but does most of the time.
I don't think it's ...
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Why does Samsung Magician constantly make the hard drive LED blink?
I have a Samsung T7 Shield connected through USB Type C and I noticed that it was constantly blinking even though there was no access.
So after much trial, closing every single program and service, it ...
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What should be the owner for an external USB drive?
I've been using an external drive on 1st PC on a regular basis, I've now switched to a 2nd PC which I use daily.
The drive is a Samsung T7 Shield connected through USB Type C.
When browsing through ...
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2TB GPT Disk mistakenly shown as a larger 8TB GPT Disk with unallocated partitions - Why?
I plugged in a 8TB GPT HDD in my pc via external usb adapter (see Footnote 1 for adapters). Then I safely removed and physically unplugged the adapter from the PC, turned off the PC. Next day I ...
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External USB SSD disk fails to mount at boot
I have two external drives attached to my Ubuntu Server 22.04.3. My /etc/fstab includes, among other things, the following two lines for the two drives:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/d7dbea69-0332-4d12-b905-...
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How to "eject" non-existing USB drive from Windows 7 host?
I use a USB key which is encrypted with BitLocker to store various data. I keep that key with me all the time.
What happens all the time is that I send my home computer to hibernate without ...
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USB 3.1 cable only transferring at 40MB/s speeds
I have a WD Passport SSD with USB 3.1. With the stock cable I transfer data at 380-420MB/s. (Limited to SATA)
I purchased a 10 foot USB C 3.1 gen 2 cable.
With this new cable I only transfer data at ...
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How do I get the full path to a USB drive in Windows 7 with no drive letter?
I plug in a Nokia C3 phone to USB and select view files on this device.
It shows up in the Explorer "my computer" window as Nokia C3 under "Portable Devices" but there's no drive letter associated ...
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Windows fails to recognize USB Flash drives if a USB extention cable is connected with one the USB port
My laptop is running Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1. I'm using internet through Huawei 3G USB Modem E1550, due to signal issues, I do not connect the modem directly to my laptop, instead, I connect ...
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Cannot write to any USB device mounted via Thunar file manager. Can only read as “root?”
I'm using Debian testing with XFCE as Desktop Environment and Thunar as filemanager. I've an issue regarding the mounting of USB mass storages such as USB flash drive. When I plug in the USB flash ...
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Cannot install Windows 10 from USB stick - issue with GRUB?
I have followed the instructions here and created a bootable Windows 10 USB stick, but when I try to run the installation the system keeps booting into the GRUB 2.0 bootloader. Unfortunately, I have ...
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external hard drive (Old USB mass storage) wouldn't show up in media
I have this 20 years old USB mass storage. It doesn't want to show up in the media neither in Ubuntu no in windows 10 when I plug it.
although ubunut is detetcting the hardware as lsusb: Bus 003 ...
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Do USB-C ports on all laptops have a guaranteed minimum of 1.5A output as required by spec? [closed]
The question is regarding capability of USB-C ports on laptops with regards to minimum supported output power. This is negotiable either via analog resistor pull-up (answered here) or specific digital ...
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Connect USB storage device to 2 computers at a time
I'd like to connect an USB storage device to 2 computers at the same time (With a cable, not over the network). Is this possible?
Context: I want my Raspberry Pi to save output on an external USB-...
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What are some possible legimiate/illegitimate uses for proxmove PVE being installed by a 3rd party on a live-usb?
Some background: I paid up person in my local area to install a live USB to two jump drives for my own use some time ago.
I never used them. I did however load them up this morning because I'm trying ...
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Decrease flashdrive capacity?
I have a media player device that can read a USB portable device. I bought a SanDisk Cruzer Blade 64 GB USB drive before I realized that the media player can only read up to 16 GB. I have tried a 16 ...
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Possible to emulate a USB Mass Storage Device and connect to another machine in Linux?
Is it possible to emulate a USB Mass Storage Device (HDD) with Linux?
For example, I want to be able to connect my Linux server to another machine and emulate a USB Mass Storage Device.
I'd like to be ...
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How to modify/extend USB device access permissions in Debian?
I have a PC with Debian 10. I need the USB drives to have broader permissions than those given by default by the system.
I will give an example: with the user "john" being authenticated, ...
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My external hard drive not detected from my Windows pc despite can be detected from my Samsung tablet
I have an external hard drive Seagate model: SRD0NF1 size 1TB and it is not being detected on my Windows PC.
The PC specs:
Windows 10 Home
64bit
ASUS rog GL752VW
When I say its not detected, it means ...
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M.2 NVMe SSD with USB-C to M.2 adapter
I have a USB-C to M.2 (key-B) adapter that uses the chipset JMS580 from JMicron. I'm connecting my KingSpec M.2 NVMe SSD (PCIe Gen3 NE series) but it is not recognized by any computer. I can see the ...
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Multi-partition USB drive
Is it possible to with any linux or windows software partition a USB drive and be able to while maintaining the data stored on one partition, overwrite another with something like an iso? Could i then ...
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Which Windows event is generated for external USB storage mounted as a disk volume?
What is the Windows event generated when an external USB storage is mounted as a disk volume in the OS?
Events like PnP events are triggered even if the external USB storage drive is blocked by AD ...
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WD My Passport external disk no longer detected
I have an old WD My Passport 2 TB USB 3 external hard disc. It has worked fine for 10 years, but for the past week, it doesn't even show up in Disk Management on Windows or Disk Utility on Mac, not ...
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android memory card not showing in windows 8
there is a small problem I have Windows 8.1 64 bit laptop when I connect my android phone recently the memory card does not show in my computer explorer window. Earlier it was showing. So upon ...
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Do modern USB external disks need parking or "safe removal"? What is the recommended way to turn them off?
I am trying to turn the off when I do not use it, as Seagate 3.5-inch USB drives never seem to lower the spinning speed even after I have not accessed the drive for hours.
I would like to use the &...
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Format/partition/modify USB stick to be recognised as a USB floppy drive for Win XP setup RAID/SATA drivers
Every so often I need to install Win XP on a machine that has a SATA drive and have to go through the whole mess of finding a floppy drive for the AHCI drivers and hitting F6 during setup, or ...
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What are effective ways to encrypt a USB drive on Windows
I'm re-asking this question because the existing question is 9 years old and I assume there's been improvement since then.
I have a portable USB drive and if I lose it I don't want someone else then ...
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Is there an easy way to check what speed your USB device is connected in Windows 11 [duplicate]
Sometimes I plug my USB HD and when I copy something it goes slower than other times. If I reconnect it may solve the problem. What I want is an easy way to check what speed the device is connected, ...
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USB devices disconnect when in use [closed]
I am being zapped by electricity when i touch the PC case sharp corners where there is no paint for long time now however usb card reader used to work before it started to constantly getting ...
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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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Mini PC USB ports acting out after hot plug in
I have a MeLE Mini PC Quieter3Q in which I installed OpenMediaVault to use as file/media server. I also plug a USB fan which I place on top of this mini PC for added cooling:
Everything was awesome ...
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Do (if yes, then why) some SATA to USB adapters have maximum supported drive size (except for 2^32 sectors limitation = 2TiB for 512b sector size)?
During web search I've found some SATA to USB adapters have limit of 2 TiB for 512 bytes sectors due to 32 bits limit on sector count.
Still I recall many other max sizes quoted, e.g. in that ...
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Connecting USB HDD
Suddenly I found I can't connect any external drive by using USB adapter. I have three different adapters but none is detected in my Windows 10. If I connect them to my other Windows 11 machine they ...
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taking an image of two partitions without unallocated space
I have a 32GB SD card with 1GB FAT32 on sdc1, 10GB EXT4 on sdc2 and 21GB unallocated space. I want to get a single disk image file that would contain sdc1 and sdc2. So the image would be of an 11GB ...
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Why is the Transfer Speed so much fluctuating with my USB SSD? Transfer of ISO file on Win10
When I write an ISO file to my USB2 SSD, the transfer speed varies a lot. It starts fast, goes down to 0, appears hanging for a while and continues with kind of fast bursts.
Why is the Transfer Speed ...
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Cannot activate bitlocker on removable disk
I've activated BitLocker on all hard drives on my PC, without any problem. I've also modified the group policy for inserting a PIN when the computer starts.
But I'm having some problems when trying to ...
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USB Drive is Read-Only on Mac
I have a MacBook Pro(13.3.1 (22E261)) that has a USB Drive(Seagate Model SRD00F1). I have the NTFS Paragon Driver installed. This was working fine. Now it is read-only. I have tried uninstalling and ...
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After hibernation, USB SSD shows under "remove safely" but not in file explorer - until reboot
Usage scenario:
Arrive at work, wake PC from hibernate-to-disk, plug in my WD Elements USB SSD.
See it's not shown in file explorer nor disk management, but it does show up in the systray USB icon ...
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Unable to format, 'The system cannot find the file specified'
I've just bought a USB drive, however I had some problems with it as soon as I started using it.
At first all of a sudden Windows would just lose the "communication" with it, stopping any task it was ...
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windows 10 can't boot when I move nvme to usb
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my win10 laptop, win10 on nvme ssd, everything is ok
grub2 boorloader ok
win10 bootloader ok
boot by EFI
sec boot is off (in bios)
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External SSD is recognize only with lsusb
I've an external SSD with an encrypted mx-linux-19-live on it. When i boot on it, it's ok; but when i am on my installed mx-linux system, i can't mount the usb drive.
lsusb diplay it : (device 009)
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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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How to get model/serial of USB hard drive without opening up case (on Windows)?
I recently bought a new 2,5 USB3 HDD (Western Digital Elements) and I'm curious what drive is actually inside (mainly because I'd like to know if it's using CMR or SMR, or is there any other way to ...
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How can I make the view mode of folders on a usb drive the same on different computers?
For example, the drive letter of a usb drive is H:\. I set the view mode of a folder on this drive to list. When I change the drive letter, the view mode of this folder will not be list anymore. I ...
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Where to install Grub for Debian install?
should i install grub on sdb or sda ??
(im installing debian on 32GB , the USB has UEFI)
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