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How to boot from a bootable ubuntu external hard drive on Mac
I have my pc hard drive which I turned into portable using hard drive cases provided in market. I then installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS onto that hard drive. I know how to boot from that hard drive on a ...
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External hard drive spinning down too early
I have a Mac Mini 2007 running Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS with an external Hitachi Touro Mobile 3.0 attached. APM is 127 (hdparm -B127) with standby value of 1 hour (hdparm -B242).
But the disk is ...
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Using Virtual Box to install Ubuntu Server 14.04 on an external hard drive
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 onto a server hard drive. The server machine I have only supports booting to CD/DVD, not USB. When I've tried burning the Ubuntu 14.04 installer to a DVD for ...
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hard drive detected internally but not externally
I have an acer laptop with a WD hard drive I have been using for about a year. Of late I noticed my system slow down dramatically. Further inspection revealed that the hard drive was going bad.
The ...
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Issue detecting external hdd on ubuntu
I have two HDD on my Ubuntu machine. One is a Maxtor 320Gb and the other is a Verbatim 1.5Tb. While it automatically recognizes the first one as sdb1 it doesn't recognize the latter. I can't see it on ...
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Power off external disk in Ubuntu, then turn it back on remotely without rebooting
I am remotely managing an Ubuntu 20.04 host that has an external drive attached to it. I am not using the drive very often and I am powering it down to preserve its lifetime (as shown here). However ...
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Ubuntu not recognizing external hard drive
I have 2TB Wester Digital external hard drive. I connected it to USB 3.0 port on my laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit) installed. It was working fine till yesterday (Haven't tried on any other OS). ...
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access to hard drive on plex media server
I am attempting to set up a Plex media server on my Ubuntu 15.04 system from a few external hard drives. However, the Plex system is unable to find my hard drives.
The following is shown where there ...
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Ubuntu 15.04 + AMD,purple screen when booting after install,stuck at initramdisk
I installed Ubuntu 15.04 on a Seagate expansion drive. I tried booting it up from my machine, but it hangs (and I waited over 30 mins, just to be sure).
I tried using the drive from an Intel based ...
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External hard drive corruption odd behavior
I have a 750GB External HD, formatted exFat.
I accidentally disconnected it from my Mac OS X Yosemite without safely "ejecting" it first.
It would no longer mount on my Mac. I tried "Verify Disk" ...
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Seagate External Hard zero size
I have a seagate external hard disk and recently I encountered some problem with that. I am using both windows and Ubuntu environment and my hard disk detecting on both but, in windows it's says the ...
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Ubuntu unable to detect external USB hard drive
I tried mounting external usb hard drive.But it does'nt detect.
Here is dmesg log:
[ 3025.963395] usb 2-1.2: USB disconnect, address 3
[ 3194.935661] usb 2-1.2: new high speed USB device using ...
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External hard drive USB connector has broken, Ubuntu can't read it through SATA
I bought a WD My Book external hard drive in 2009 and used it for a few years so I have a lot of important data on it.
One day I accidentally knocked it off a table. The table was not too high but ...
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How to install Windows 7, Windows XP and Ubuntu to an external hard drive from a Mac?
I have Macbook Pro. I have a portable USB hard drive and I want to install
Windows 7
Windows XP
Ubuntu
on that portable hard drive.
Does anybody know how to install all three operating systems on ...
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Unable to access hard drive
I am trying to mount my external hard drive but I keep getting this error
Unable to access “Backup Data”
Error mounting /dev/sdb3 at /media/root/Backup Data: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "...
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