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Problems with usb3 attached drive ERROR: Transfer event for disabled endpoint or incorrect stream ring
I have a HP Microserver gen8 that I'm using for testing and some minor backup.
This machine has a debian 9 installation, I'm planning to upgrade it to debian 12 when I will have some time, the machine ...
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Trying to understand SmartCRTL results: Normed value less than the worst value?
Please see the below output of smartctl for external hard drive. For attribute: Offline_Uncorrectable, the current normed-value is less that the worst value.
How is it possible? It should be always ...
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Linux Internal HDD Cloning/Backup Issue [closed]
I have installed Manjaro XFCE in my Laptop, that also has Windows 8.1 in a dual-boot format. The Windows 8.1 was installed earlier than Linux. But, in terms of disk partitions, between two partitions ...
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External Seagate Ultra Touch HDD lags computer and can't be mounted correctly on Linux or Windows 10
On Windows 10 it at least (sometimes) shows the overall directories on the HDD, but Linux can't even do that anymore.
I'm fairly sure that up until a couple weeks ago my Linux PC could read the drive. ...
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Different partitions listed by lsblk and fdisk
I'm having issues mounting an external WD 4TB USB HD. It has two 2GB partitions, one NTFS and the other exfat. This has been my backup disk on a RPI4 and worked well for over 5 years until yesterday ...
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Linux claims half full NTFS external drive is out of space
I've got an external 5TB hard drive formatted as NTFS and mounted in Linux.
When I run df I get this info on the drive:
/dev/sdd1 4883735548 2398731656 2485003892 50% /media/me/DRIVE0
I also ...
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External Hard Drive disconnects during file transfer on Linux
So, I have this Western Digital 5TB portable drive (Specifically "My Passport" branding) that I have some video recordings on of me playing video games. The thing is that the files are huge (...
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How can I create an external HDD using a dual booted internal HDD?
I had an old laptop that I dual booted with ubuntu and windows 10. So I decided to use its internal hard drive as an external hard drive and bought the enclosure and everything needed.
The problem I ...
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hdparm: Are parameters (like spindown time set using -S) saved on machine or on the hard disk?
Say, I connect my external hard drive to a machine/computer and set the spindown time to 5 seconds using:
hdparm -S1 <disk dir>
I test this setup, and the disk does spin down after it is ...
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Cant format, mount or list external hard drive
So I have a 1TB internal Samsung M.2 SSD and a 1TB external SSD and i wanted to install gentoo on it. I installed gentoo and wanted to format the external hard drive but now, on my Mint system, the ...
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Why is my freshly formatted external SSD flashing after mounting it on Ubuntu 22.04?
I formatted an external SSD connected to my Ubuntu 22.04 box via USB using mkfs.ext4 and then mounted it.
Problem: The activity LED on the external disk enclosure is flashing since half an hour now ...
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Why does my external hard drive mount as /media/TB1 instead of /media/TB?
I just added a new external USB hard drive and it's showing up in the system as TB1 when it is labeled both in the partition and in the /etc/fstab as TB. Why is this happening?
I suspect it may be ...
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No partitions found after moving disks to external bay
I extracted two disks from a laptop after it went kaput:
a 2.5 SATA hdd (NTFS + ext4 data partitions),
a SATA M.2 (mostly ext4 partitions, this had the boot and root partitions).
Then I purchased ...
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Can't open contents of internal laptop HDD via enclosure and I tried to format it using Tails OS but failed
I bought a new hard disk enclosure today for my internal drive. I connected it to my laptop using the connection, and everything was working fine. I was able to access all the files stored in it, but ...
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New external hard drive has software installed in it and I'm not sure if I can format it without bricking it
I bought a new hard drive and to my surprise it has software installed in it.
I tried to copy stuff inside but due to it having a different filesystem, there were some issues with allowed names and ...
