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How to confirm ready state for an external USB disk before attempting other actions
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Before I plug in my external USB backup drive, my computer is fully booted-up, and I am in my session as root. Because of its location, my USB cord is already plugged in, but I ...
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Can I run a laptop with no OS from a bootable USB thumbdrive
I have a HP Stream 14 with windows 10 that's useless because windows takes up the entire 32 GB hard drive. Can I wipe it and run from a bootable thumb drive?
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PC automatically ejecting USB-C Hard Drive while copying
So I'm a video editor and I use a RAID system for storage, I recently upgraded my motherboard, CPU, and changed whole PC case out to a NZXT H9 Flow case.
I recently have run into an issue where my ...
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Macbook Pro is NOT showing up Bootable USB Drive
System: Macbook Pro 2019, Intel, T2 Chip, 16 GB RAM, No USB port (Using VIVA USB hub), Ventura 13.6.5
Issue: The bootable USB drive (EFI) is not showing up when restarting with 'Option' key
I had ...
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How to DIY split SATA to two USB 2 ports?
Edit: The short answer is that you cannot connect SATA to USB straightly or without a proper conversion. There are 'common' chips in market which in circuit with a transistor and couple of resistances,...
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How can I use the full 6 Gbit/s mode on my SATA HDD?
I am using an old WD My Book (don't know which version, but it's most likely the one from the video How to open a WD my book case) with a WD 2 TB HDD. It is connected via mini USB b <=> USB A to ...
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Signature collision in Windows 11, why?
I'm running into a problem in Windows 11 I can't figure out, maybe someone has ideas...
I have a hard drive connected to my motherboard in a hot swap SATA rack called "Project 20". This is ...
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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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How to Programmatically Eject a Drive for Immutable Backups with Physical Connection?
We are looking for a practical and cost-effective way to enhance the security of our backups. Our initial idea was to go for immutable backups but unfortunately, due to cost constraints, we are ...
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Dropped HDD seems to be working fine with Windows, makes clicking noise when connected to Raspberry Pi 5
I dropped my External HDD (WD My Passport 5TB) while unplugging it from my Windows PCs USB port. Drop height was about 1m/3ft and it fell on the floor immediately after USB was disconnected. I'm ...
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Is it possible to download a Linux bootable operating system direct to a wiped HDD?
I am in the hospital and have no money so don't need advise me to get a USB drive please.
I purchased a laptop which ended up having BitLocker enabled when I disabled secure boot.
I have a 3.5GB USB ...
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please insert a disk into usb drive after rufus [duplicate]
I used rufus to install windows on a fresh pc and after the install was finished I booted into windows, removed the usb drive. When I restarted and plugged the usb in it can't detect any media on it ...
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Is it possible to use a cloned operating system through an external disk connected by USB?
I'm trying to clone a laptop's disk using an external hard drive in order to then use it on a different computer. The problem is that while the external HDD has enough space (1TB), the other computer ...
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Hard drive from ultrasound machine will not allow me to copy image files to USB
I have an ultrasound machine with a USB port so I can copy image files to be viewed on a PC. In the first few years, any USB I plugged in was able to copy files. Recently, the machine will not allow ...
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How to remove a drive for USB-stick which is greyed out although no USB-stick is plugged in anymore?
Drives taken by USB-sticks remain greyed out (see D:\ and M:\ in screen-shot) although the USB-sticks are ejected properly by Safely Remove Hardware. The command net use does not list these drives ...
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Looking for a way to swap several HDD's quickly
I'm looking for a way to go through an absolute boat load of HDD's quickly, without having to open my PC and swap out drives.
They are all 3.5" SATA drives that have data on that i may or may not ...
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Hard disk recognised but doesn't show up
I have this strange issues with my Seagate external drive that has important data. When I connect my HDD via usb, I can see the device appear in the tray as seen below:
But however, it doesn't appear ...
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Hard drive error, cable fault
I was transferring many files to an external mechanical USB3 exFAT formatted HD and suddenly the usb cable was slightly moved, causing an error. It was not clear why that happened, maybe the socket on ...
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Trouble writing arch-linux.iso with USB-Imager software
I recently corrupted my hard disk while partitioning it and I couldn't boot in my Arch Linux installation. I repartitioned my hard disk drive by booting from an already existing .iso file, but this ...
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USB 3.0 port not working with my HDD
I have a Seagate 1TB HDD with a USB 3.0 cable. When it's plugged I to the USB 3.0 port on my laptop I cannot wrote files to the hard drive. I can view the files and even copy files from the hard drive ...
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Windows 11 Installer not showing my USB [closed]
Currently, I am attempting to run Windows 11 Home/Pro from a USB, on an intel based MacBook Air 2017.
I booted the installation media, and I can bypass all the windows 11 TPM, SecureBoot and RAM ...
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Mini PC USB ports acting out after hot plug in
I have a MeLE Mini PC Quieter3Q in which I installed OpenMediaVault to use as file/media server. I also plug a USB fan which I place on top of this mini PC for added cooling:
Everything was awesome ...
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Cannot access device / WD Portable Game Drive 5.0 TB USB
I've tried two cables and using two different computers to access my WD Portable 5.0 TB portable game drive that has a USB interface. Dmesg seems ok with line
[ 4586.948425] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming ...
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How to fix disk not showing up
If I go to Device Manager, i see a hdd connected via usb as Generic HDD USB Device but when i look at the folders, i dont see it showing up.
How do I make it show up so I can access the files in the ...
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Linux: Clone harddrive to external USB stick
I would like to clone a whole linux OS from the harddrive to an external USB stick. However, I don't want to clone all the unused part of the harddrive, only the used part.
The partitions on the ...
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Recover innaccesible USB drive [duplicate]
Long story short, I have a little 100 MiB USB which I have been using for quite a while in which I store lightweight but sensitive information. Suddenly, it stopped being accessible (maybe I unplugged ...
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USB Drive is Read-Only on Mac
I have a MacBook Pro(13.3.1 (22E261)) that has a USB Drive(Seagate Model SRD00F1). I have the NTFS Paragon Driver installed. This was working fine. Now it is read-only. I have tried uninstalling and ...
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Disconnecting external HDD via USB-A Hub when second drive is connected
I have a USB powered USB-A 3.0 hub with 4 USB-A 3.0 ports. When I try to connect two HDDs at the same time, first one is disconnecting.
first is Toshiba Canvio Basics 2TB USB powered drive connected ...
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Can't install OS or boot into live USB
I don't know what the problem is exactly. The other day I turned my PC on running linux lite and the resolution was all wrong on one of my monitors. So I rebooted it through a button I have on my ...
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SSD 3.0 slowing Bios boot and Windows?
I have SSD with 3.0 connection connected to USB 3.0 Port on my Laptop PC. There was no problem until yesterday when suddenly my PC decided to do something strange.
It is connected with SATA to USB 3.0 ...
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Opened windows switching back to My Computer when USB unplugged on windows 10 OS
Whenever I unplug my USB pen drive all my other opened windows in windows 10 and windows 11 OS are switched to My Computer and Desktop folder respectively. I didn't find a solution for this issue. How ...
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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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HDD showing up in Windows via USB, but not via SATA
Possible sector size issue? Leftover QNAP/EXT4 format weirdness?
I have been migrating drives from a QNAP NAS to a new Windows 11 Pro based server. The two drives giving me problems are the 10TB ...
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A single HDD stops working in USB 2 enclosure
I have a WD hard drive that simply refuses to be read when put in a WD enclosure for SATA to USB 2. The drive shows up in macOS, Ubuntu and Windows, but appears uninitialized/unpartitioned.
Here are ...
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USB 3 to SATA adapter: ASM1153 vs ASM225 performance?
So I just got two 16TB Seagate Exos drives that I need to attach to my computer via USB. I have a couple of old Seagate Expansion enclosures from shucked 6TB drives - I tried them and they worked fine....
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Safe USB HDD eject from cli (raid on top)
I have 6 USB HDDs which i use to store a externel backup of my homeserver.
Over the HDDs is a Linux Software RAID5.
What is the correct way to "stop everything" and eject the HDDs safe so i ...
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Hard drive not spinning properly in external USB case
I have two disks that I'd like to use inside a cheap USB 2.0 case. I can use the first one just fine, when I plug it the hard start spinning nicely and the disk eventually shows up on my computer. ...
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WD My Passport external disk no longer detected
I have an old WD My Passport 2 TB USB 3 external hard disc. It has worked fine for 10 years, but for the past week, it doesn't even show up in Disk Management on Windows or Disk Utility on Mac, not ...
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Disk stops to respond completely on top folder read
This was an unusual failure not exactly similar to typical cases, it started when a simple folder rename on disk completely froze responsible process with later stable symptoms:
When HDD was ...
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How to connect several external drives to Raspberry Pi via usb?
I have 3 external hard drives. I would like to connect them all to the Raspberry Pi and make them into a NAS server. How can I do this? Raspberry Pi's voltage is too low to power disks, but I have a ...
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How to initialize a bootable disk and keep it bootable?
I have a bootable hard disk from a dead Windows XP computer. I want to see what is in it and if I should get a replacement mother board for it. I hooked it up as a USB disk but it disk doesn't show up ...
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Why does my USB to IDE / SATA bridge only work on old PCs?
I have an old USB2.0 to IDE / SATA bridge that I like to use for my loose HDDs, but on my newer PCs they always make problems.
The access to the HDD is slow or fails completely with an USB error.
The ...
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Sum of two disk usage is 100% when copying huge data
I have two hard drives, both are 220MB/s write tested. However when copying huge files (no fragmentation) from one hard drive (external, usb3.2typeA on motherboard IO panel, 10Gb/s) to the other (...
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Do magnets effect flash storage devices? [duplicate]
I'm thinking about using magnets to organize my flash drives. I have standard flash drives you can buy at any store, and some that are M.2 drives inside an enclosure (I know you can buy this too, but ...
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Why does rsync give different output between rsyncing to a USB flash drive versus a hard disk?
How come rsync gives different outputs when there are no files for rsync to transfer, meaning (xfr#0) with rsync from hard disk to hard disk versus rsync from USB flash drive to hard disk?
Using:
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How to recover contents of an external hard drive with a corrupted partition table?
I have a WD Elements 5TB USB hard drive that fdisk -l now shows as a single partition of Microsoft basic data:
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 9767473151 9767471104 ...
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Directory copied into USB drive disappeared: input/output error [duplicate]
I have copied a folder with a bunch of files onto a 2 TB USB drive, which I formatted as NTFS. Some time later, I inserted the USB drive into the computer to look at the files. When I opened the ...
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HDDs don't boot via SATA, but boot via USB
Can't boot any HDD via SATA cables in the mobo, but can boot via USB.
I have tested now three hard drives at this point, all of them do not
boot on SATA, but all of them boots via SATA switcher to ...
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SuperSpeed USB Port causes power surge on external Harddrive?
I was testing my new laptop hub and attempted to plug in my extern hard drive to on of the SuperSpeed USB-A Ports. Explorer openend normally and I was able to browse files until I opened a certain ...
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Usb flash drive not detected
I have a problem wich is my usb flash drives are 8gb and 16gb not detected by ubuntu 21.04 but my hard drive 1tb is being detected.
I have disabled secure boot, fast boot and enabled csm and pxe on ...
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