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Adding custom text after portable USB drive letter
Kinda fancy question, but how can I add custom text after portable drive letter name?
My DVD has the following name pattern:
Label (DriveLetter:) CustomText
But my other USB portable drive has:
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Force every external USB storage device (USB HDD, USB flash drives of any brand, etc.) to be assigned the same letter G:
I know the "Disk management" (diskmgmt.msc) way to assign a driver letter such as G: to a (currently physically present) specific disk or device. But here my question is a little bit ...
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Will a USB 3 device work in a USB 1.1 port?
I've searched quite a bit for the answer to this question but there surprisingly isn't much information on it. I have an old system that only has USB 1.1 ports and I want to expand its storage by ...
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Does NTFS write in the background?
Does NTFS do any writing in the background when the user is not writing any data? Does it do any writing after the write/copy dialog reaches 100% and closes? I've seen claims that it does this ...
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Windows 10 can't eject USB drive [duplicate]
I have multiple thumbdrives and external disks, some protected by Bitlocker and some not. None of them will ever cleanly eject from my personal Windows 10 x64 laptop.
I've tried just about all of ...
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Why does USB drive run at the speed of USB 1.1 when connected to a USB 2.0 hub?
I have a strange problem with my USB drive (WD Express). When I connect it to my Windows PC's only USB port, it works at high speed (USB 2.0). However, when I connect it to a USB 2.0 hub as the only ...
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USB Hub requires "Scan for hardware changes" to detect my USB HDD
I have two hubs (let's call them D-Link and Amazon) and two devices (a USB stick and a USB HDD), and I've noticed the following:
Plug the USB stick in the D-Link hub: Detected immediately.
Plug the ...
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What read/write speeds must an external storage have to make it worth putting a swap partition there? [closed]
This question is for my Raspberry pi A+ (256MB RAM) which is on Raspbian Linux.
I have no qualms about using a flash drive and using up its read and write cycles if need be.
I'm just curious on what ...
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USB 3.0 HDD is working in High-Speed mode instead of SuperSpeed
I've got Asus R500V with one USB 3.0 port. I've installed a proper driver from Acer site.
I've got WD My Passport [USB 3.0 version] and I connected it to the 3.0 port.
Treeview says it's working in ...
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Why does the transfer rate of my USB 3.0 flash drive drop after a few seconds of copying?
I've just bought a SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 64GB flash drive. The spec says that the drive's max read speed is 80Mb/s.
I only have a USB 2.0 port, and I've made these tests:
Writing a 4GB file on the (...
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USB Flash drive too slow
I've tried like 10 USB flash drives, and they are all slow :(
External USB hard-drives are much faster. For example transfer speeds on the WD passport are like 20 MB/sec compared to like 2 MB/sec on ...
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A computer that fails to boot if certain USB devices are plugged in
I don't have an active problem with this but I am curious.
Over time, my repair work has led me to experience many instances (repeatable and reliable ones) where a computer (desktop or laptop; every ...
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Is an external hard drive considered a USB flash drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I install Windows 7 from an external hard drive?
I have a StoreJet 25M3 (USB 3.0) external hard drive. Does Windows recognize it as a USB flash drive?
I ask because I'...
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What is the difference between USB 2.0 and USB 3.0? [closed]
I want to buy a Pen Drive and a HDD. For both case I get two categories. USB2.0 and USB 3.0.
I wish to ask my T.V. is compatible with USB 2.0 pen drive. I wish to buy USB 3.0 pen drive. But that is ...
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I want to use a USB stick as a harddrive - hardware questions
I installed the latest Ubuntu OS on a USB stick and I'm having some (expected?) lags.
Updating packages takes hours, but I can live with that. But the general response time is pretty bad. For instance ...
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