Questions tagged [usb-storage]
Storage drives connected by USB devices known otherwise as flash drive, USB stick, USB key and thumb drive. Also includes larger storage devices such as portable hard drives.
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How to ensure that an USB device is mounted as storage by udev
I have a looper device that can be connected to a PC as mass storage device. I know this because Windows offers me to choose how I want to mount it. However, Linux does not mount it as mass storage.
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Unable to disable USB Mass Storage using Windows policies or registry keys
I have a Windows PC which must have USB mass storage disabled. I have gone into Group Policy Editor (Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Removable Storage Access) ...
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Disable "Eject" option of an USB drive
I am looking for options to stop the user from ejecting a USB drive.
They don't have physical access to it, but nothing stops them from clicking "Eject" in File Explorer or down at the ...
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upgrading from usb 3 to usb 4
I was wondering if it is possible to upgrade from USB 2 and 3 to 3 and 4 on a laptop? If it is possible please tell me the condition that makes such upgrade possible?
because my laptop takes almost ...
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Why does disk management see an external USB SSD, but also says it is offline?
I have an Orico M.2 SSD enclosure (M2PV-C3-BK-EP-CA) using the Realtek RTL9210B controller. I have put a Samsung 990 Pro 4TB SSD inside it (NVMe). Both are brand new.
I am running Windows 10. The ...
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What makes one USB 3.0 flash drive faster than the other?
I have two USB storage devices:
SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD SDSSDE60-500G: According to spec it supports USB 3.1.
SanDisk Ultra Flair USB 3.0 Flash Drive SDCZ73: According to spec it supports USB 3....
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What is the difference between the STT and MTT in USB 2.0 interface?
What is pins difference of USB2.0 device in case of STT and MTT?
A "Single-TT" hub (also called "per hub") device has one TT in the controller, and a "Multi-TT" hub (also ...
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External power for 3,5" HDD with USB-C charger
I'm trying to use one of my 2 HDDs (requiring 0,75A and less on both 5V and 12V) as external drive for storage. I tried using UGREEN Sata to USB-C adapter, but it has not enough power.
I know, that 3,...
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USB Drive acting very weirdly (windows 10)
my usb drive is a acting very weirdly. when i connect it to my pc it makes a sound, meaning it recognized it. now 1 of 2 things would happen: it would show up in my file explorer with the name "...
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How to reach the maximum bandwidth on many USB drives?
I have many (~60 at now) external USB drives which I need to occasionally, but regularly, connect to one Linux workstation because I need to run a sanity check program on data saved on them.
I don't ...
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W10 Can't see whitelisted USB device after formatting
I have implemented several security policies that block USB devices based on their device ID's. However, when I format one of these devices, the policies prevent the system from recognizing it after ...
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Direct USB type C connection preventing SD card reader from being recognized
I have a micro SD card I want to read on my M2 MacBook Pro (Ventura).
I recently bought an adapter, that in theory is supposed to read said card.
On the manual the reader is described as a “T-Flash (...
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USB to SATA adapter disconnecting and connecting and or erroring, only on one machine
I have two identical SATA to USB adapters (from Ugreen) one of which constantly disconnects and connects and or errors. It won't happen every single time but does most of the time.
I don't think it's ...
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Why does Samsung Magician constantly make the hard drive LED blink?
I have a Samsung T7 Shield connected through USB Type C and I noticed that it was constantly blinking even though there was no access.
So after much trial, closing every single program and service, it ...
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What should be the owner for an external USB drive?
I've been using an external drive on 1st PC on a regular basis, I've now switched to a 2nd PC which I use daily.
The drive is a Samsung T7 Shield connected through USB Type C.
When browsing through ...
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I have a mounted USB disk (GoPro camera with SD card) in Debian 12 and am not seeing any data. Why?
I have mounted my external USB disk in Debian 12 (Bookworm). It's showing on the “Other Location” list. But, when I opened it, there is only EFI filesystem data.
It's a USB connected GoPro camera that ...
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2TB GPT Disk mistakenly shown as a larger 8TB GPT Disk with unallocated partitions - Why?
I plugged in a 8TB GPT HDD in my pc via external usb adapter (see Footnote 1 for adapters). Then I safely removed and physically unplugged the adapter from the PC, turned off the PC. Next day I ...
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External USB SSD disk fails to mount at boot
I have two external drives attached to my Ubuntu Server 22.04.3. My /etc/fstab includes, among other things, the following two lines for the two drives:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/d7dbea69-0332-4d12-b905-...
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external hard drive (Old USB mass storage) wouldn't show up in media
I have this 20 years old USB mass storage. It doesn't want to show up in the media neither in Ubuntu no in windows 10 when I plug it.
although ubunut is detetcting the hardware as lsusb: Bus 003 ...
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Do USB-C ports on all laptops have a guaranteed minimum of 1.5A output as required by spec? [closed]
The question is regarding capability of USB-C ports on laptops with regards to minimum supported output power. This is negotiable either via analog resistor pull-up (answered here) or specific digital ...
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What are some possible legimiate/illegitimate uses for proxmove PVE being installed by a 3rd party on a live-usb?
Some background: I paid up person in my local area to install a live USB to two jump drives for my own use some time ago.
I never used them. I did however load them up this morning because I'm trying ...
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How to modify/extend USB device access permissions in Debian?
I have a PC with Debian 10. I need the USB drives to have broader permissions than those given by default by the system.
I will give an example: with the user "john" being authenticated, ...
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My external hard drive not detected from my Windows pc despite can be detected from my Samsung tablet
I have an external hard drive Seagate model: SRD0NF1 size 1TB and it is not being detected on my Windows PC.
The PC specs:
Windows 10 Home
64bit
ASUS rog GL752VW
When I say its not detected, it means ...
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M.2 NVMe SSD with USB-C to M.2 adapter
I have a USB-C to M.2 (key-B) adapter that uses the chipset JMS580 from JMicron. I'm connecting my KingSpec M.2 NVMe SSD (PCIe Gen3 NE series) but it is not recognized by any computer. I can see the ...
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Multi-partition USB drive
Is it possible to with any linux or windows software partition a USB drive and be able to while maintaining the data stored on one partition, overwrite another with something like an iso? Could i then ...
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Which Windows event is generated for external USB storage mounted as a disk volume?
What is the Windows event generated when an external USB storage is mounted as a disk volume in the OS?
Events like PnP events are triggered even if the external USB storage drive is blocked by AD ...
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What are effective ways to encrypt a USB drive on Windows
I'm re-asking this question because the existing question is 9 years old and I assume there's been improvement since then.
I have a portable USB drive and if I lose it I don't want someone else then ...
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USB devices disconnect when in use [closed]
I am being zapped by electricity when i touch the PC case sharp corners where there is no paint for long time now however usb card reader used to work before it started to constantly getting ...
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how to allow using only specific usb flash drive in windows
The company I work for sells devices that run Windows 10/11, I need the device only use our company's usb flash drive, the total requirements are:
When other U disk is inserted, it should not be ...
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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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Do (if yes, then why) some SATA to USB adapters have maximum supported drive size (except for 2^32 sectors limitation = 2TiB for 512b sector size)?
During web search I've found some SATA to USB adapters have limit of 2 TiB for 512 bytes sectors due to 32 bits limit on sector count.
Still I recall many other max sizes quoted, e.g. in that ...
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taking an image of two partitions without unallocated space
I have a 32GB SD card with 1GB FAT32 on sdc1, 10GB EXT4 on sdc2 and 21GB unallocated space. I want to get a single disk image file that would contain sdc1 and sdc2. So the image would be of an 11GB ...
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Why is the Transfer Speed so much fluctuating with my USB SSD? Transfer of ISO file on Win10
When I write an ISO file to my USB2 SSD, the transfer speed varies a lot. It starts fast, goes down to 0, appears hanging for a while and continues with kind of fast bursts.
Why is the Transfer Speed ...
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Cannot activate bitlocker on removable disk
I've activated BitLocker on all hard drives on my PC, without any problem. I've also modified the group policy for inserting a PIN when the computer starts.
But I'm having some problems when trying to ...
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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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Emulate USB flash drive for CNC machine [duplicate]
Our CNC machine (Laguna Swift) can only read files from a flash drive. I was wondering if there is a way connect the CNC machine to a Windows 10 computer via USB-A to USB-A cable and share a folder to ...
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After hibernation, USB SSD shows under "remove safely" but not in file explorer - until reboot
Usage scenario:
Arrive at work, wake PC from hibernate-to-disk, plug in my WD Elements USB SSD.
See it's not shown in file explorer nor disk management, but it does show up in the systray USB icon ...
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How to get model/serial of USB hard drive without opening up case (on Windows)?
I recently bought a new 2,5 USB3 HDD (Western Digital Elements) and I'm curious what drive is actually inside (mainly because I'd like to know if it's using CMR or SMR, or is there any other way to ...
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How can I make the view mode of folders on a usb drive the same on different computers?
For example, the drive letter of a usb drive is H:\. I set the view mode of a folder on this drive to list. When I change the drive letter, the view mode of this folder will not be list anymore. I ...
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Where to install Grub for Debian install?
should i install grub on sdb or sda ??
(im installing debian on 32GB , the USB has UEFI)
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Is it possible to prevent files on a usb drive from being searched on any computer?
I have searched, but all methods that I found need to be done on computers. I have a usb drive, and I may use it on different computers. It's impossible to set "Indexing Option" on every ...
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How to write windows installation iso to usb hard drive
There seem to be many tools to write an ISO to a USB stick, but I am trying to write a windows installation ISO to an external hard drive, many tools don't even list it as an option to write to, what ...
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Install Windows 10 on external USB attached HDD - not bootable
I am trying to install a fresh Windows 10 onto a number of 2.5 inch HDDs.
I have downloaded the Windows 10 iso.
I have a caddy that can hold the 2.5 inch drives.
The reading I have done indicates I ...
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External Drive with bitlocker enabled will not eject from Windows 10
External SSD with bitlocker enabled will not eject from Windows 10, the mbamagent.exe (bitlocker) is preventing the device from being stopped. This also happens with other USB hard drives without ...
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Cannot `cd` to E: drive using Windows CMD command line [duplicate]
I connected a camera to Windows machine through USB, but I am unable to access the device when I type "cd E:\" through command line.
I can see the device through file explorer, and the drive ...
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reformatting my ssd from ps4 to PC (windows 11)
I have a portable SSD I would like to use to store games on. I have used this ssd on my PS4 and now want to use it on my PC but i can't seem to open it on my PC the only thing i can do with it is ...
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windows 10 can't boot when I move nvme to usb
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my win10 laptop, win10 on nvme ssd, everything is ok
grub2 boorloader ok
win10 bootloader ok
boot by EFI
sec boot is off (in bios)
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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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My PC can't write to any USB external storage device but can write to my Phone storage
I recently noticed that I couldn't write files (or delete files) to any external usb storage using my PC.
Here is what happens when I try to create a new folder.
I can't get past the 2nd window popup....
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USB3 HDD write speed Debian 11 vs Ubuntu 22 (ESXi 7.0U3 VMs)
I have two VMs running on an ESXi 7.0U3g host.
Both VMs are installed on an NVMe datastore (FYI for comparison below, note "usbspeed" vs "nvmespeed" tests), and have identical ...
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