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"'Windows To Go' can only be installed on a GPT partitioned drive if it has the FIXED attribute set" when flashing Windows To Go on drive with Rufus
This is explained here:
If you are trying to use an older version of Windows for Windows To Go, you may have gotten a message from Rufus telling you that it was unlikely to boot due to your drive ...
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How to fix corrupted USB flash drive?
The screenshot of the MPtool is pretty conclusive evidence the NAND chip is not detected. It's either dead or not properly connected. The USB flash drive can't be repaired.
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Cygwin64 | mount: Invalid argument
Cygwin is not unix nor a unix virtual machine.
All of the rules of Windows still apply.
First format the USB stick in windows using a windows file system (NTFS, Fat32, etc).
Drives that get mounted in ...
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Connecting a USB Flash Drive to Storage Spaces
On Windows 10 Home I was successful in creating a Storage Space with 2 USB hard drives by simply enabling the "Better Performance" policy:
Open Device Manager.
Open Disk Drives.
Right-click ...
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Can USB drives still be read or written to after hitting "Eject" in Windows 11?
After being ejected, a USB disk can no longer be accessed.
However, it's very easy for a program to undo the Eject.
See for example the post
How to access an ejected USB flash drive without removing ...
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Problems with Hiren's boot USB flash drive creation from a downloaded ISO
Short answer.
Don't use Rufus and use what is suggested on the page. Let that tool do whatever it will. I think the result was NTFS but I am too lazy to dig out one of my USB sticks to check.
Rufus ...
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How to fix corrupted USB flash drive?
USB drives die without warning.
That appears to be what happened here.
Can you recover the files on your phone?
Otherwise for Windows, if it will not format (as per your post), then you need to ...
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Converting flash drive from RAW to exFAT and restoring it original storage capacity
You should have done the following:
Removed all partitions, and confirmed completion.
Created a single partition, and confirmed.
Formatted that partition, and confirmed.
If the device does not show ...
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Windows 10 and hardware upgrade: strange behaviour after safe usb unplugging, that leads to data corruption on all hard drives
So, I installed Windows 11 on a new SSD with GPT, and everything works fine right now.
It seems that the issue was somehow related to a software problem, possibly driver conflicts.
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"Ghost" USB Drive in My PC
First, look for a device inadvertently left plugged into a USB port, such as µSD card reader.
If there is nothing plugged in, then test removing it from the list of USB devices that have ever been ...
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Cannot format USB stick to FAT32 while burning Linux Mint Cinnamon Edge using Rufus
Solved this by using Ventoy and booting from there.
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Connecting a USB Flash Drive to Storage Spaces
I had the same problem as @Danwat1234. After I converted the disks to 'MBR disk', I could create a Storage Space with them.
In Disk Management, you can right click on a disk and select 'Convert to MBR ...
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Cannot format USB stick to FAT32 while burning Linux Mint Cinnamon Edge using Rufus
Rufus dev here.
First of all, if you have an issue with Rufus, you should try to report it to the official Rufus issue tracker rather than a place where the application developers may not look.
When ...
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