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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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