Questions tagged [external-hdd]
Issues with external HDD including USB, Firewire (IEE1394) and e-sata connections as well as issues relating to mounting, formatting and partitioning.
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Advice: External Drive FileSystem for Video files attached to Ubuntu Server, but compatible with Windows?
I want to run a Plex server that will serve video files off an external hard drive. The Plex server will run on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. However, because I primarily work on Windows, I feel the external ...
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Can't format a 2TB external hard drive
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. My kernel version is 4.4.0-201-generic. I've got an external 2TB USB hard drive. The vendor name is very new: Generial.
I can't get it to format as usual. Every time I try, the ...
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windows no longer boots in dual boot after accidentally delete partition in hdd windows
I accidentally delete my HDD partition which i used for ubuntu (dual booth) , i recovered using aomei partition which said that the file are restored in the previous partition in disk management
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sdb1 keeps showing unknown partition after every restart
My external hard drive has two partitions. sdb1 keeps missing after shutting down the laptop and turn on again. But If I restart after formatting the drive, the drives work fine. But once I shut down ...
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help changing fstab for hdd external [duplicate]
Is there a program that will help with fstab. Not sure how to mount a external harddrive with defualt options.
Need help changing fstab for hdd. I screwed up editing mount options.
Mounting with ...
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Can I restore the data from a USB that was removed unsafely?
During copying some files to my external hard drive, I accidentally disconnected the USB from my laptop. I lost all files in the directory to which I had been copying some files.
Question: Is it ...
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1/2 solved - Error removing old /etc/fstab entry to mount HDD
I could use a pointer on fixing the fstab problem to restore earlier working order. I dont have owner in mnt directory and its all snafu. Thank you very much.
I tried changing the mount point of a ...
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A persistent ubuntu instalation in a external hdd is any diferent from the same instalation in a pen drive?
I want to install ubuntu in a 1 Terabyte toshiba external hdd , to be like a normal bootable persistent internal hdd. But in the past i did a persistent instalation of lubuntu in a usb pen drive of 8 ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Touro External HDD 1TB HFS+ always Read Only
I have External HDD 1TB ex. used with MAC OS mojave.
Now I use Ubuntu 20.04 as my primary OS. When I plug it HDD to ubuntu it's always read only.
I was try this post still no lucky.
this is ...
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How do I get the WD My Passport can be opened in Ubuntu 18.04?
I have a problem with my portable hard drive, WD My Passport. I was able to open it using Windows 10 and there was no problem. However, if I open it while using Ubuntu 18.04, WD My Passport doesn't ...
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external HDD Start Boot Laptop
I just change the internal hdd for a new one. It worked perfect, I just wanted an SSD
I forgot to copy some passwords I had in the old one. Both HDD has Ubuntu install
Can I start my computer using ...
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Ubuntu doesn't use external drive properly
I have the following problem with using an external drive on Ubuntu: copying starts with the maximum of 300mb/s speed (I have only one USB port, and it's USB 3.1), after ~10sec speed is nearly half of ...
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"Dual boot" help with external SSD and no change to internal Windows SSD boot manager
I have a laptop running Windows (with BitLocker) that I use for work. I'd like to have the option to boot into Ubuntu using an external SSD (connected via USB) without touching anything in my existing ...
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External hard disk not mounted and not seen when plugged to Ubuntu
Suddenly Ubuntu stopped recognizing my external USB drive HDD, this is my dmesg output:
[ 2341.271570] usb 2-2: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 43 using xhci_hcd
[ 2341.293118] usb 2-2: New USB ...
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Installing Ubuntu 20.04 on external ssd gives errors
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 20.04 on a Samsung external ssd (from a bootable memory stick on a laptop that is already running Ubuntu 20.04). I want the external SSD to be bootable on whatever device ...
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Why is ubuntu setting file type to hfs+
I recently installed Ubuntu desktop onto a raspberry pi for and for some reason it is registering my external hard drive as HFS plus even though I've never used a Mac computer before in my life. Now I ...
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Mount *.img ( dd-rescued image file)
I have recovered 1TB external hard disk using DD-Rescue-GUI. The image is stored in a 2TB external hard disk. I tried to mount it but could not succeed. I also tried the solution in the Mounting Disk ...
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External hard drive keeps crashing ubuntu-20.10-preinstalled-server-armhf+raspi
This freshly reinstalled raspberry pi keeps rebooting on it's own when the external HDD is connected.. An so I keep losing my ssh connection.
I had formatted and reformatted the disk a lot before, ...
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Cannot mount USB NTFS HDD drive
I have an external 10Tb Seagate drive. It's an NTFS drive with two partitions as the factory default. I've been mounting it on my Ubuntu 18.04.03 server. Today it stopped working. I tested it on my ...
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EFI boot partition mounted at /media/[user]
Upon having problems with permissions for an external drive, I discovered my /dev/sda1 EFI boot partition had been mounted at /media/[username]. The partition was also still mounted at /boot/EFI.
This ...
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How to install Ubuntu from an external HDD?
I already saw that there is an old thread (Installing Ubuntu from External HD) from 2014 on this but wanted to make to sure if there is any new trick or workaround for this problem
I have a Windows OS ...
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Cannot install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to an external HDD
The problem: I want to install Ubuntu on my HDD, but after the installation process from the Installation-USB, the HDD won't boot up and does not get shown as possible boot device.
I have a 5TB WD ...
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GParted error mkntfs -Q -v -F -L "" /dev/sdb1
after formatting my old HDD (ext4) into NTFS, this error appeared
mkntfs -Q -v -F -L "" /dev/sdb1
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Failed to access '/dev/sdb1': No such file or directory
The device doesn't exist; did ...
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Ubuntu on external HDD cant be opened/renamed. How fix this?
Got an old HDD with Ubuntu installation on it.
Connected it via USB into my Win10 system.
Disk Management, Crystal Disk Info etc do recognize the external drive and claim it healthy. Still I cant open ...
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new 8TB HDD shows as 1.28 TB
Ubuntu_20.04, kernel 5.4.0-52-generic.
I have a new Seagate 8TB HDD attached via USB3 cable to an external drive interface card (labelled "Raptor 3.5 Main Board V3R1 2011/07/19", includes ...
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Slow shutdown when external NTFS hard drive is connected
I'm fairly new to Linux (1 year experience).
I had Xubuntu 18.04 LTS and now running Xubuntu 20.04 LTS and I'm stilling running into the same issue.
My system is E7500 dual core / 4 GB DDR3 with ext4 ...
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Using Ubuntu to save a dying HDD, disk completely unreadable, even though it works on other OS
I have an old dying hard drive with loads of faulty sectors that I'm trying to save as much data from as I can (before ultimately throwing it out). Using ddrescue on my laptop on macOS did wonders, I ...
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Data safety in ext4 as external HDD drive in ubuntu as main OS
HI pardon me for asking
I have an external 1tb HDD drive that formated in ext4 my main system is in ext4 SSD either
the thing is I wanted to know that is my data are safe not like really safe but just ...
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External bluray drive not mounting - 20.04 LTS
I have just purchased an Hitachi LG-BH16NS40 bluray drive which came mounted in an external USB3 caddy (a Vantec 5.25 inch enclosure). I can't get Ubuntu to mount any discs that I insert into the ...
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Does a mounted external NTFS drive (USB) need to be manually synced?
To be clear, the terminology of "synced" that I'm using here might be incorrect. I'm talking about the flushing through of the [write] cache.
I am dding a local drive image to a file on my ...
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External HDD works on Windows and Mac, but not detected/showing up in Ubuntu
Recently switched from Windows 10 to Ubuntu in my PC. So, I'm new to Ubuntu OS.
I have a 1 TB external HDD that has been formatted in Windows 7. That HDD detected in Windows & Mac OS. So, we can ...
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ACCIDENTALLY ISSUED DD COMMAND AGAINST EXTERNAL HDD
I recently issued dd if=/home of=/dev/sdb and turned out to ruin the exfat filesystem on my external harddrive. I immediately issued ctrl-c to stop writing.
Read few threads indicating the use of ...
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How can I restore my backup from 18.04 in my newly installed 20.04 using Deja Dup 'Backup' app's duplicity files
I recently upgraded with a flash drive my Ubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04
I backed up all my files on an external hard drive prior to the upgrade.
Now as I am trying to restore my data, a few problems ...
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Boot from external HDD
I have a huawei laptop (matebook D) it doesn't support selecting external hdd as boot medium (it's really crazy) just from pen-drives. When hdd is connected it won't show in bios menu. Is it possible ...
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New 20.04 install and now I cannot see my Seagate external NAS drive
Tried a few basic things but to no solution. Not that tech-geeky when it comes to Linus (just use it).
Checked all files up to date and I can see the drive using my Win10 laptop so I know it is fine ...
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Can I manually copy files to a backup drive without corrupting existing backups?
I'm borrowing a Seagate external backup drive from a friend to backup my files while I partition my linux laptop. The external drive already contains several (macOS) backups made by Seagate software. ...
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How to spindown external drive on ubuntu 20.04
I have an external Seagate Backup plus hard-drive that gets automatically mounted on system boot, however the hard-drive does not get automatically spundown/powerdown with the system is shutdown. I ...
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How to install Ubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 1525 which has no operating system [duplicate]
I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, which has had the os removed and hard disk wiped. I downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu desktop onto an external hard drive. I am struggling on the Dell laptop ...
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can i dual boot ubuntu and kali linux on a externel hard disk drive? if so how? [duplicate]
i am currently using linux mint 20 but i want to make it windows 10 and want to dual boot ubuntu and kali linux on my external HDD. Is this possible?
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Will I lose all of my external HDD data while installing Ubuntu 20?
I have a 256 GB SSD with Windows 10 installed on it and am trying to install Ubuntu on my external 4 TB HDD,which has only about 1 TB full. Now, while I am installing Ubuntu, I have to choose the ...
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Can I run packages on an external hard drive? [duplicate]
Can I run packages like metasploit, ngrok, gparted, etc all install from terminal but run or install to external hard drive?
I am running Ubuntu on USB 3.0 but I want all packages installed to an ...
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Failed to install Ubuntu on external SSD in dual boot with Windows 10 over an AMD Ryzen processor
I have an Asus AMD Ryzen7 equipped with Windows10 installed on /dev/nvme0n1 .
I would like to install Ubuntu 20.04 on an external SSD /dev/sda .
Using an Ubuntu Live USB /dev/sdb, I tried several ...
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External drive spins up when Ubuntu suspends
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I've got a WD Element Drive that behaves oddly. It took forever for the Drive to spin down, And I'm not able to set the standby (spindown) timeout for the Drive using different methods.
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Old PLX Technologies Blank Oxford Device external usb drive recognized by lsusb but not by fdisk
Old external hard drive has sat collecting dust for about 8 years, and now I need something from it. I plugged it into my ubuntu 18.04 laptop and nothing. I've been trying to diagnose over the last ...
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Secure and sure way to clone an identical LUKS External HDD
I am using Lubuntu 18.04.
LUKS such a wonderful SW until you get trapped into a mental pain of never-ending loops. And the worst thing is that I do not know where I made a mistake and why that ...
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File name error in Ubuntu 20.04.1 [closed]
I just installed Ubuntu 20.04.1 by getting rid of Ubuntu 18.04.2. I had backed up my data on an HDD before installation because I intended to wipe it all out.
There were no issues while transferring ...
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How can I install the full version of Ubuntu on an external hard drive
I want to know how to install the full version of Ubuntu on my external drive. So I can run system on any other devices I
have 297GB hard disk,I want to be running the same system on multiple devices.
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Read-only file system Ubuntu 20.04
I've switched from Windows10 to Ubuntu 20.04. After that a problem popped up with the 'D disk' or the 1Tb file system that is part of my computer hardware (I am pretty sure this is called HDD). I am ...
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how to view files of exteral hard drives connected via USB
i am wanting to connect a HDD via USB to view files, import and export files to and i cant seem to figure out how to get my machine to recognize any HDD
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Remove HDD icon from dock in 20.04 [duplicate]
Today, I updated my Ubuntu 18.04 machine to 20.04. My laptop has both an SSD (where the OS is located) and a larger HDD (where most of my data is). Since the update, an icon for the hard drive appears ...
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