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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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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Check external disk power condition / current state, Ubuntu terminal
Somewhat relevant to this, but is there a way to check if an external disk is already currently spun down (i.e. in idle state)?
I'd like to check a remote disk over SSH, so listening to the disk in ...
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How to recover files lost during cut and paste [duplicate]
Running Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, I plugged in a usb flash drive and an external drive via usb.
Using GUI "Files" I created a new directory (let's call it New_Directory for further reference) in ...
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Wanted to install to external SSD, made a big mess
Good evening,
I wanted to install (k)Ubuntu to an external Samsung T5 SSD, in order to be able to use it on different PCs. On my primary laptop, I booted from a Kubuntu 20.04 live USB stick, inserted ...
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How to install Ubuntu on a laptop with a portable external Hard Drive?
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OS:Windows 10
Laptop: Lenovo X1 Carbon gen7
Description
I want install Linux Ubuntu on portable external Hard Drive USB 2.0(Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex[500GB]). I have already booted Ubuntu 20.04 ...
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Desktop won't boot with external hard drive plugged in
So, I'm building an arcade machine and I'm using a Dell Inspiron 530 running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I have an external hard drive that needs to stay plugged in at all times as I'd prefer not to have to ...
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Ubuntu 20.4 freezes Gnome session when I connect USB 3.0 HDD 1GB
When I connect usb HDD 1GB into usb 3.0 port gnome session gives me notification that Backup volume is inserted and then Gnome gets completely frozen. Nothing works except moving mouse.
When I force ...
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Problems with an external HDD
First of all, sorry for my english, but i really hope that someone could help me with my problem, here is it:
I tried to install Arch Linux in my external HDD, alongside with Ubuntu 20.04. The thing ...
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Appropriate command to copy everything in root "/" to an external storage volume?
I want to copy everything in root / to my external hard disk before I upgrade my OS so I'll have everything just in case something goes wrong. Is the following the most appropriate command for it?
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Will using ubuntu from a external hdd give me same performance as using ubuntu from internal hard drive?
I have a potato laptop and I intend to use blender from ubuntu in
order to get somewhat better performance for rendering and modelling
and other stuff.
I also need windows because I use davinci ...
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Best practice: Dual boot with internal SSD or external SSD (DELL XPS)
Hi I would love to get an opinion from experts on the best way to go.
The case is as followed: For my new software engineering internship, I need a Ubuntu env to program in because they all work with ...
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cd /media/[user]/[external hdd]: Permission denied
I don't have permission to cd into my own external hard drive. sudo cd is not a syntactically legal command (tried it). What is going on?
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Installing Ubuntu on external drive for someone else, from inside Ubuntu
This may sound a stupid question, but this is something I'm not finding obvious documentation for.
I'm running Ubuntu on my laptop. Someone has given me an old HD, currently in an external case, and I ...
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How to reinstall MBR and UEFI Grub in Ubiquity installation?
Edit: I am sorry if I used the term bootloader, MBR, GRUB, GRUB UEFI interchangeably because I am not sure what's their difference. The point is I how to repair the part/partition/bootloader/grub/mbr ...
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External Hard Drive is Recognize, but can not be Opened
I connected my external Hard Drive to my machine. It was recognized but it could not opened. I rund dmesg command and this is what I got:
[ 571.197590] usb 2-7: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, ...
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Can I use Ubuntu and its file system on a hard drive?
I created a bootable USB for Ubuntu as per the instructions here. My USB was a 500GB external hard drive (NTFS formatted). When I boot Ubuntu, everything works fine, however it asks me whether I want ...
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Power off vs. "safely eject" or "unmount" of external devices (cameras, (android) smartphones, externally powered hdd's, etc)?
Title says it all pretty much; I would strongly assume this question would have been answered before and therefore may well be a duplicate (a very quick google and sx check didn't find retrieve ...
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Dissappeared files from external disk, Ubuntu 20.04
My files from an external disk disappeared suddenly. I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and I am sure that I didn't delete them!
One the external disk I can see some files, but some files I can't see. My ...
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Burn iso to an external hdd partition
I am trying to have multiple USB installers for different OSs, like Debian, Ubuntu, windows, etc.
I have an external 2T HDD (Seagate Expansion+) with a single partition in it.
What I want to do is to ...
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ubuntu 18.04.4 on external hard disk
My computer is a Lenovo ideapad 700 and I've both Windows 10 (already installed with the laptop) and Ubuntu 14 installed as dual-boot with no problem. I'm trying to install Ubuntu 18.04.4 on an ...
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Decrypt external hard drive
How can I decrypt an external (USB) hard drive in Ubuntu 18.04? Unfortunately I can't remember how I encrypted it.
I want to remove the encryption because currently I can only access the files on it ...
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Can Nautilus create thumbnails in separate directories for each mount point?
I've got some external and network drives and I have noticed that Nautilus keeps a single directory in ~/.cache/thumbnails which it uses to store thumbnails of these external drives right along with ...
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Blu-Ray drive seems to be recognized as harddrive (/dev/sdb) (drive conntected at SATA -> USB adapter)
I have connected my Blu-Ray disk drive via a SATA -> USB adapter to my notebook. But is not found as optical disk drive by the system.
When I type in
lsusb
it shows:
Bus 004 Device 005: ID 152d:...
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Create Ubuntu Live on external HDD in Ext4 Partition
sorry if this is a silly question, I am new to Ubuntu.
I have an external HDD, and would like to create Ubuntu Live on a 20GB Ext4 partition of that system. I tried going to Disks, selecting the ...
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Dell XPS - Installing Ubuntu on external drive - Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST)
Hardware:
I have a Dell XPS 7590
OS
Preinstalled with Windows 10. Looking to install Ubuntu 20.04 on an external USB.
Goal:
I would like to install Ubuntu 20.04 onto an external SSD drive plugged ...
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Dropbox on external drive - sync afresh every time?
I hope this isn't a silly question for which I'm missing an obvious answer... So: because of the lockdown, my wife and I need to both work on the same desktop (Ubuntu 18.04) and we use dropbox to ...
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Where do I find grub.cfg for dual boot Windows10 and Ubuntu on external drive
I am a novice to Ubuntu, and not very familiar with Linux. I am trying to create an dual boot external drive with Windows10 and Ubuntu (20.04). I was following the instructions provided by Gavin ...
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Unable to format external drive (udisks-error-quark, 0)
I am trying to format my external hard drive which contained some important data and was earlier formatted as exFAT. The external hard drive (Transcend 1TB) was bought 6 months prior and it does not ...
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Can I fix this Hard drive in linux? [closed]
I have a a 2TB Seagate HDD that I use on my Windows PC but it suddenly stopped showing up on any PC at all, not even in disk manager. Can this hard drive be recognized in Linux? Can I fix it in Linux? ...
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Ubuntu 20.04: problem with connection of external HDD to a router
I connected an external Hard Disk Drive via USB port to a "Vodafone Station Revolution" router to share it between two computers.
On the first machine that mounts Ubuntu 16.04 the HDD works perfectly: ...
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How to enable exFAT for Ubuntu 20.04
Today I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 20.04 (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-1008-raspi aarch64) on my Raspberry PI, and I know that exFAT should be supported by the 5.4 kernel, but whenever I try to mount an ...
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How do I format just part of an external HDD?
I have an external HDD with one NTFS partition. I need to shrink that partition and add one which is formatted as ext4 for use with Dropbox. The format utility built into Ubuntu seems like it can ...
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Installed Mint on external SSD, now Ubunty won't boot without SSD plugged in [duplicate]
So, I installed Mint on an external SSD just because I had it laying around, and I found it entertaining to do so.
Now when I boot my laptop without the external Mint SSD plugged in, it goes to GRUB ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 crashes when it copies from a external disk large data
I don't know what other information I can give you, but I know that this problem has been on Ubuntu for a long time (the Linux Mint that I have is based in the 16.04 environment). I hope that someone ...
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Laptop asks to dual-boot from external hard drive that is not even connected
I have a single-boot Ubuntu running on my laptop. My previous laptop had a Windows/Ubuntu dual boot option. I extracted my previous laptop's hard drive, and plugged into my new laptop (with my new ...
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Boot delay due to missing SCSI removable disk
My Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on an ASUS VivoBook S15 is taking about 30 seconds to boot from the time that Grub2 initiates the Ubuntu boot until the login box appears (dual boot system with Windows but I don't ...
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Permission denied in Makemkv
I'm trying to get plex working on Ubuntu and when I use Makemkv to get the files off my disk, I get the error 'Posix error - Permission denied'. I am trying to put these files on a bigger external ...
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My HDD used for backups it doesn't have the "Delete Option" and other options
I have a SSD and an HDD. Yesterday, I was still using the Windows 10 that was installed in the SSD drive, then I decided to migrate to ubuntu, so in the ending of the night, I installed ubuntu(without ...
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Problem installing Ubuntu on external HDD(Boot Menu)
My circumstances are SSD(CT250MX500SSD1)250GB and external HDD(WD My Passport 25E1)1TB.
I want to install Ubuntu on my external HDD so that I could dual boot it both on my laptop and desktop.
But ...
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The system can't recognize the disk's space
So, recently i decided to remove ext4 partition from my external hard drive, which i used for Timeshift backups. I successfully removed it from 1tb external drive, but the file manager shows me that ...
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Error while copying files to external hard drive
I am trying to copy image files to an external hard drive. The file names are like "2020-03-25 09:21:27 624.jpg". I have previously copied a similar data set to the same hard drive in Windows 10. ...
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¿How can I fix my main disk? (problem with Ubuntu 19.04 EFI and Windows 7)
I have been trying to install Ubuntu 19.04 together with Windows from a USB in an Acer Aspire Z3771 with Intel Core i3–2120 CPU @ 3.30 GHz and 6 GB of RAM on an external disk (to avoid problems with ...
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Recover data from Encrypted External Hard Drive
So yesterday I was installing a couple of distros in a new computer I got, when I was creating a Live USB through the command line with the DD command and I accidentally chose the incorrect device. (...
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How can web server access external-hdd?
Instead of using a third-party media app like Kodi or Plex, I want to make a simple local website that can be accessed from any device in my network via a browser.
I have two external drives with all ...
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USB 3.0 external HDD recognized as 2.0
System: ACER Aspire 5830TG
USB 2.0 x3; USB 3.0 x1
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.10
Release: 18.10
Codename: cosmic
$ uname -r
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Ubuntu Live USB saving/editing files on an External HDD
I'm using ubuntu-19.10-desktop-amd64 live USB to do some work on some files which are on an external USB HDD(not the same as the live image).
The problem that I have come across is the the changes ...
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Small internal drive, need far more space in /tmp, shall I put it on external drive or internal one?
I have a small internal SDD drive with Ubuntu and I often run-out of /tmp space. I am going to add another, large HDD. It is critical for me that /tmp is as fast as possible not to impact performance ...
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Other users cannot accesss External Drive
I am running Ubuntu on a laptop, version 18.04.4 LTS. I connected an external drive to the computer and the user that is logged in when I connect the drive is able to access the drive. When other ...
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Can't import audio files into audacity from mounted drives
I've recently started experimenting with dual-booting Ubuntu 18.04 on my Windows 10 machine in hopes of eventually building a full linux rig down the line. I work on a lot of sound projects, so having ...
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Installing Ubuntu on external 1TB HDD alongside windows 10 on SSD
My PC is HP Laptop 15-dy0xxx with Intel core-i5, 1.60GHz CPU, 12GB RAM and only 238GB SSD (no HDD) and recently took a transcend 1TB External HDD. It has been installed windows 10 by default. Now I ...