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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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Setting up External Storage for Micro Server
Need advice on a relatively cheap and stable way to set up external drives with an Optiplex micro. I upgraded my old homelab server (i5 with ZFS RAID 1 over SATA) to an Optiplex 5060 micro. Optiplex ...
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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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restore data on external disk after windows repair
Here is an issue my friend faced:
He has an external hard drive NTFS formatted. First he was putting photos to it using MacBook. Then he was putting photos using Ubuntu laptop. Then he moved to a ...
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Detect in Linux Bash if USB drive is unmounted and mount it automatically
My USB drive is plugged in to a server with Ubuntu system and constantly unmounts itself for no known reason.
I want to write a script in Bash which will be run frequently by cron.
My question is how ...
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Why did my disk suddenly stop working?
I have a hdd and I am using it for about 3 months, I always used it in Ubuntu and everything was great until yesterday I put it on a windows laptop, the windows laptop could not read it and now I put ...
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Mounting an SSD that had Ubuntu installed before as an external drive doesnt load anything
I have a Samsung SSD 840PRO that had Ubuntu installed on it as OS. Something happened to the computer and I had to unplug the drive, today after many years I got an external SSD enclosure and ...
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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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nwipe on USB external hard drive
I am currently running nwipe on a brand new external USB hard drive, using the default setting if DoD Short. The hard drive is brand new, USB 3.0, and 5TB in size.
When it started 14 Hours ago, the ...
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Hard Disk which was running on Ubuntu is not recognized in windows
I tried to use my internal hard drive as external from a laptop which was running on Ubuntu Operating system. But the problem is i can't access the drive in windows. I can see the drive in the "...
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How to install Ubuntu 20.04 on external SSD without changing 18.04 install on SSD inside
I tried installing Ubuntu 20.04 on an external disk (erasing the disk and install with LVM and full-disk encryption). This worked excellently; but after removing the external disk and rebooting, my ...
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My Seagate 2TB External hard drive is not showing and if shown in disk it shows with wrong size?
I am using ubuntu 19, and my seagate external hardrive stopped showing. I also tried in other OS like windows and it is the same issue.
HardDrive shows like this..
It is also showing the wrong drive ...
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No space on Ubuntu/VirtualBox because of [big] shared folder
I have connected a huge external HDD (1TB) to the Ubuntu running in the VirtualBox (Mac) as a shared folder. Everything works good, but it looks like the system takes content of the external HDD drive ...
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Trouble running Ubuntu terminal command on files on external hard drive
I'm having difficulty looping a command in the Ubuntu terminal over files held on an external hard drive. When I move a subset of the files onto my main disk and adjust the path accordingly it works ...
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File recovery on external hd with Testdisk (Ubuntu 18.04)
I was doing some organizing on my Seagate 4 TB HDD when I attempted to cut/paste all of the movies in one directory to a new directory. I received an error message (wish I would've screenshot it, but ...
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