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android memory card not showing in windows 8
there is a small problem I have Windows 8.1 64 bit laptop when I connect my android phone recently the memory card does not show in my computer explorer window. Earlier it was showing. So upon ...
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Has anyone successfully used the new usbstor MaximumTransferLength parameter?
Some time ago, Microsoft added support for specifying the maximum transfer size to the usbstor driver (see KB2581464 at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2581464). I have been unable to actually ...
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flash-drive is not getting detected in windows 7 ,earlier versions than windows 7 and Ubuntu
I have 16GB Transcend pen drive. Recently I formatted that flash-drive at my Windows 8.0 computer. pen-drive is perfectly working with Windows 8.0 computers and Windows 8.1 computers .
But Once I ...
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USB mass-storage corrupt on portable Linux device – fixing it using Windows CHKDSK?
Due to some circumstances I forcefully shut down my Kindle DX (in fact, a Linux machine), holding the power switch for 15 seconds. I believe no processing or obvious file transfers were in progress ...
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Windows 8 / 8.1 USB file transfer consistently freezes whole system
I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro (64 bit) on a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H (rev 1.0) motherboard with a Samsung 830 SSD and 8GB of RAM. All is normally well in general day to day use.
However, when I plug in a ...
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Windows Surface USB Recovery Drive
My friend lost her password to her tab and she cannot log back in to her tab, and being the leet haxor that I am, I know that the only way to refresh her tab and keep all her important course ...
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USB drive data transfer control?
I want to allow only authorized USB drives to transfer data from my computers.
How can this be achieved?
My computers have win 8/win 7 installed.
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After upgrading to Windows 8.1, external USB drive disconnecting and reconnecting intermittently
I upgraded from Windows 8.0 to 8.1 recently and ever since the external USB drive (with power supply) connected via a powered USB hub started disconnecting and then automatically connecting after a ...
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Bitlocker To Go drive is mounted as Read Only after it's unlocked
A while back I encrypted an external USB drive (NTFS) with Bitlocker To Go on my Windows 7 PC.
Now, when I connect the drive to my Windows 8 PC, I enter the Bitlocker password for the drive when ...
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Which external USB drives work with Windows 8 Storage Spaces?
First, a bit of background:
Microsoft brags about how the new Windows 8 Storage Spaces support any interface (including USB) for attaching drives to add to a Storage Pool:
http://windows.microsoft....
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USB flash drive unreadable after a few minutes on Windows 8
I recently got a new computer with Windows 8. I a have a number of large backup files I am moving from my old PC to my new one. I was able to successfully copy the files to a couple 16 GB flash drives....
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USB Harddisk not working on dual boot windows7/8
Yesterday I installed Windows 8 on a machine that already had Windows 7. They are on dual boot and both systems work fine. The problem is that inserting a USB hard disk in either system does nothing. ...
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How can I mount an EXT4 USB drive on Windows 8?
I have a USB drive formatted as EXT4. How can I mount it in Windows 8?
Ideas on other workarounds are appreciated as well!
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Windows 7 on laptop hard drive does not boot after installing Windows to Go on external hard drive
Just successfully installed and ran Windows 8's Windows to Go on a USB external hard drive. However, after shutting down and removing the USB hard disk, whey I to start my laptop (with only Windows 7 ...
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