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Do the Realtek Audio drivers have anything to do with USB headset volume?

If you have a USB headset then it will be completely separate and independent from the Realtek audio system. The Realtek devices will control the various 3.5mm sockets on your motherboard. You will ...
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Copying large video files to external hard drive (connected via a SATA III to USB 3.0 hub) universally causes file corruption

Edit: the problem is not the hard drive at all, it was the cheap SATA III to USB 3.0 hub I was using, corrupting the data. I got a better one, and now it works fine! It turns out I was actually ...
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How can I view the max wattage of my usbcpd port of my laptop?

Picking a Lenovo laptop at random and looking at the specifications page: AC Adapter / Power Supply 65W USB-C Slim 3pin AC Adapter - UK So it is safe to say that the USB C port supports at least 65W ...
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Best option to interface laptop with blu-ray disk rewriter

There are several ways, the cleaner and most convenient one will be to use a SATA to USB with external power (like the Startech USB312SAT3), so you can inject the extra power needed to run the drive. ...
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USB totally damaged after used with Rufus

In all likeliness, Rufus didn't ruin the drive, it just gave an already worn / failing flash drive that past push. No Media USB Flash Drive Disk Management 'No Media' essentially says, I see a storage ...
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How to speed up rsync between two local disks?

I've found that rclone does the least disk thrashing, and appears to be much faster, especially with these options: rclone sync --size-only --progress --fast-list SOURCE DESTINATION Optionally use --...
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Recover WSL files using Linux Live USB?

If you are using WSL2 (assumed, since you should find the WSL1 files on the drive with that search), then the entire filesystem for your WSL distribution is in a virtual SDD. As @blami mentioned in ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 can't recognize USB device

It is possible that the disk IS corrupted, the question will be is it hardware or not. IF the device is being detected as /dev/sdb but nothing further it generally implies no partition table, but ...
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Windows freezes when formatting a USB as a virtual box

One general thing that can help with Windows 10/11 freezing is turning off the PCI Express setting under Power Options settings -> Change Advanced power settings. USB is related to PCI.
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How can I rename a USB sound device (headphone) in Windows Sound settings?

The trick is to remove not only the obvious audio device(s) but also the parent controller device in the Device Manager. It also helps to show hidden devices when doing this. Open Device Manager. ...
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Can ISO images written to USB drives be read under Windows?

Here is a way to do it, performed on Windows 10 on 2023-09-06 (yes, I still have Windows 10 and no "Microsoft Cloud") On Windows, install SysProgs WinCDEmu available from https://wincdemu....
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How can I enable wake abilities of a USB device in Windows 10 Professional?

In a CMD window ran as Administrator get the list of potential wake devices with powercfg -devicequery wake_from_any find your device and enable waking with powercfg -deviceenablewake "Device ...
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WD My Passport external disk no longer detected

My own WD Passport suddenly yielded a "no access" error. I could see the drive in File Explorer but clicking upon it did not expand its contents. Chkdsk declared "no access." ...
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What does it mean for a CPU to have native USB ports?

That the CPU has "native" USB ports is the same as the CPU hosting PCIe ports. In other words there are USB ports connectors on your motherboard that rather than going through one of the ...
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USB passthrough doesn't work in VirtualBox

SOLVED. There is some quackery afoot with virtualbox, and users/user account(s?). Solution is this: sudo adduser $USER vboxusers won't work for some reason ( but do it, in case it's needed for ...
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LUKS Encrypted USB on macOS

You can use Linsk. It is a utility that wraps around a lightweight Alpine Linux VM, allowing you to mount any Linux file system (including LUKS) that is then exposed to the host machine through a ...
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Deleted BIOS boot options on laptop can't boot from anything

The BIOS in your picture looks like the one from Insyde that I have on my computer. I lost all boot options when I upgraded my computer BIOS. Back then, I managed to restore the boot option that I ...
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Hard disk recognised but doesn't show up

I hope you have backup, as it doesn't look good for this disk. For diagnostics, get the SMART attributes of the disk and Edit them into your post, for us to have a look. If you don't have a product ...
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Deleted BIOS boot options on laptop can't boot from anything

All BIOS boot options were deleted and the BIOS shows no trace of them and no interface for adding them back in. Resetting the BIOS to default values is the only operation left to you, but that also ...
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USB C network connection between Macbook and PC Laptop?

In theory yes, but only via Thunderbolt, not plain USB. Most systems (macOS, Linux, Windows 111) can support IP-over-Thunderbolt (well, Ethernet-over-Thunderbolt) providing something equivalent to a ...
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USB flash disks unusable after trying to make bootable kill disk

This is doable without AOMEI. In windows you can sometimes go to diskpart, select the volume, and clean. https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/how-to-diskpart-eraseclean-a-drive-through-the-command-...
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KVM plus Dock - why did USB work with old laptop but not the new one?

Open Mac Console.app to look for USB errors like “max amperage” during connection. if they are missing , try enabling usb debugging using system defaults Use System Information to compare the usb hub ...
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USB device has gone after reboot — only physical reconnection helps

This can also happen in some devices due to the device never loosing power during reboot and malfunctioning in the process of reconnecting. Physical reconnect effectively "reboots" the ...
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USB device has gone after reboot — only physical reconnection helps

Not sure if it helps but had a similar issue on my Raspberry Pi running Debian 11 Bulleye and a USB LTE 4G modem stick. At reboot the usb stick didnt start up. Solved it by changing the boot order in ...
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Deleted BIOS boot options on laptop can't boot from anything

Try resetting the BIOS Settings by removing the CMOS battery for 60 seconds and then re-installing it. This should return any BIOS settings changes back to normal: Source: https://www.youtube.com/...
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Persistence usb drive debian not working correctly on bios legacy

Rufus dev here. I can replicate your issue. The problem is that whereas Rufus needs to patch the Isolinux/Syslinux (BIOS) and GRUB (UEFI) config files for persistence, it appears that Debian split ...
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mother board have usb 3 but it is shown and use as a usb 2 device

Intel® 6 series chipset boards Huron River (for Mobile platforms) and Sugar Bay (for Desktop platforms) use third-party USB 3.0 controller and Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 driver. Source: Intel ...
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Auto-mount USB drive when plugged in on Alpine Linux

The general method of running short commands on device connection is udev. An udev rule can use RUN+= to run a command; on non-systemd distributions this can be used to call mount.1 Graphical desktop ...
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