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Windows does not mount USB NTFS superfloppy
I have a Transcend Storejet external USB hard disk. This is not an SSD, but a mechanical disk with rotating plates. I have formatted the whole disk, without partitioning, as NTFS. I have used mkntfs ...
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Can't use/format the USB that been through Rufus and terminated in half
I'm facing an issue that is quite familiar with this one but I can't really find out a solution, I've tried diskpart and clean command and also clean and create partition primary but all can't work (...
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Why Windows can't see USB drive?
I was playing with live boot USB, and somehow it got corrupted. When I plug it into my PC it said it needs to format the USB. But when formatting it spat out an error along the lines of: "Windows ...
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Adding a FAT Partition to a bootable USB having persistence
I created a Kali bootable USB using the steps mentioned in the official docs here, and then added persistence as written here. Currently the USB is having 3 partitions, as such:
(The other 1MB ...
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How do I hide Linux partitions from Windows on a USB with multiple partitions?
I have a USB drive with an ext4 partition and an ESP for Ventoy so I can have multiple bootable ISO images on one drive. I also have an NTFS partition on it that I use to store files on. When I plug ...
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How can I fix a corrupted usb on windows 10?
My story is different and huge please help me.
Yesterday I removed my entire windows 10 from my Acer PC (it was infected with a virus named Win32/Floxif.H which infected all the files in my PC) and ...
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Making a flash drive to a hard drive
I've found a tutorial here on how to trick the operating system to see a flash drive as a hard drive.
But I have a few questions:
This trick will only work on the os wherein you updated the flash ...
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Format USB disk with DISKPART
I'm trying to format a USB disk, however, it won't format as expected:
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ...
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USB stick shows up as two drives, cannot delete second partition
Some time ago I was given a free USB stick. If I connect the USB stick to my PC, it shows up as two drives: one drive is 2GB, the other is 14MB, holding a few files belonging to the company who gave ...
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USB Storage Partitioned With Windows 10 Doesn't Work On Older Versions Of Windows
On Windows 10
I have a 16 GB (14.3 GiB) USB flash storage which I have partitioned into two NTFS partitions, a 2 GB and a 12 GB partition.
And I have done this with Windows 10's Disk Management as ...
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How do you partition a USB Thumb / Flash Drive?
Out of the box, Windows will not allow you to partition a USB Thumb / Flash Drive. How can you do this?
In case anyone is wondering Why you would do this?
It's interesting in the case of a BitLocker ...
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USB flash drive became Basic after installing BCD
TL;DR: Used "Install BCD" option and USB drive became "Basic" instead of "Removable".
I have a 64gb Sandisk flash drive, which was about 80% full. I wanted to install windows from it but didn't want ...
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Partitions not showing up during windows XP installation
Yes, I am installing windows XP as my side OS in 2019.
I will tell you what happened. I have an ISO image of windows XP.
I created a bootable flash drive using Win2Flash and booted the usb on the same ...
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How to create hybrid MBR/GPT partition on USB drive?
Can you please tell me how to create a hybrid MBR/GPT partition on the USB drive? I need the MBR for the boot as my BIOS doesn't boot GPT partitions.
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Merge USB partitions into single partition on Windows 8.1
I was trying to install Ubuntu in dual mode on my PC, but it failed and it divided my USB drive into three partitions whilst making USB a bootable device.
Now I want to merge these USB partitions ...
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Computer doesn't recognize a specific USB (Win 7)
I guess that it is not a hardware problem; And the computer recognizes all the other USBs except a specific USB.
The problem occurred after I created Fedora live USB. After the creation of live USB, ...
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How to completely delete my USB thumbstick? [closed]
I own a Kingston thumb-stick. I have installed a Google Chrome OS image to it, so I could try it out. When it did so, it created 3 partitions (I backed everything up and the software that installed ...
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mac boot, and windows storage on same USB
I have a 64GB usb to install mac OS X on, but it will not use the whole drive so I would like to partition it. I want the other partition to be accessible from pc and mac. To install mac I need to use ...
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Partitioning a USB Drive
I've read other answers; none of which answer my question for different limitations.
Goal: Partition a USB to 3 sections: Data (FAT32) , Kon Boot (Bootable with EFI), Linux Live CD (Bootable with EFI)...
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Editing partitions on USB drive disabled
I recently bought a 128GB USB drive, on which I'd like to make 4 partitions, but when I use Disk Management (Windows) and try to edit the main partition, the items in the list when right-clicked are ...
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How to set an USB drive as a local drive using CMD?
I'm trying to hide the data on my USB drive. I've come up with the idea to hide everything in a second partition, which Windows would not recognize. Then, in the first partition, there would be a ...
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Can I use a boot usb as a storage device as well in windows
I recently bought a 32gb usb 3 drive and made it a bootable usb. there is about 25gb of unallocated space, which i formatted to ntfs, however windows only recognises the boot partition as it is the ...
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Data transfer is extremely slow after partitioning external USB drive
I bought an external USB 3.0 drive with 500 GB capacity.
OS is Windows 7.
I use it with a USB 2.0 slot, no problem there.
Initially I used it without making several partitions and it was very fast.
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USB dongle hardware locked without switch
I'm currently facing a quite strange problem: my usb-dongle seems locked, but it doesn't have a hardware switch. I tried installing Debian on it, and throughout the installation-process, the drive ...
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Booting a PC to disk partition format tool
I often need to format a partition disks on my windows based machines. At the moment I do this by using a Win 7 install CD and going as far as the custom install page. Is there an easier way to get to ...
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Partitioning a bootable Flash drive
Is it possible to have a 2 partition Flash drive that looks like the following:
A partition that is bootable to OS X (this will require a GUID partition table)
A second partition formatted either ...
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Formatting a memory stick with two partitions?
I have a 16GB memorystick which used to have a Linux partition. It therefore has two partitions; 2GB FAT32 and 14GB linux boot drive. The linux part stopped working, so I decided to reinstall it. But ...
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