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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Extreme Lag when connecting Docking Station with HDD

Currently Using 22.04 I just bought a mini pc using a intel i9 processor. I also jusat bout this dual HHD docking station There is an extreme lag when I am connected to the docking station. Using my ...
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Automatic synchronization or backup to External HDD at every plugin

I used to backup one partition to an external drive using grsync but now i have to backup different different folders to corresponding folders in External HDD. It would be helpful if they can be ...
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External drive disconnection after a while

The external drive is disconnected after a while. I tested in other machine without any relevant issue. The output of dmesg: [ +0,000172] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: WARN Set TR Deq Ptr cmd failed due to ...
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How can I use a external HDD to install Xubuntu? [duplicate]

I've been researching and learning about xubuntu and now I finally feel like I've learned the basics so I've decided to install xubuntu on my laptop. To do that I've partitioned free space on my SSD (...
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External HDD not a drive

I have not seen anyone with this issue so asking myself. My external 1TB HDD is not showing up so I ran sudo fdisk -l and lsusb It does not show as a drive but it does show as a device located at Bus ...
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Mounting an external MyBook drive getting TimeMachine error

I have a old MyBook that I need to get some files off of. I am using VirtualBox and Unbuntu as the Guest on a Windows 11 machine. A few years ago I did the same set up with an older version of ...
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Lock icon in external drive's folders

When I attach the external hard drive, the folders have a lock icon on them and i am unable to delete them. I tried to use sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $HOME but to no avail, this did not work. Please ...
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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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External USB Drive Detached - what is causing it? // uas_eh_abort_handler

I have an external HDD (Seagate RSS LLC Backup Plus Slim) on which a program as heavily writing tonight. When I checked this morning, I could see that the "lsblk" does not show the harddrive ...
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Can only mount external drive with sudo

I have a 2TB external drive with an NTFS partition. If I connect it to my main desktop, it mounts fine in Dolphin - I just click the drive when it appears on the sidebar, and I can see all the files, ...
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Prevent mounting a partition in fstab

So I feel really bad for asking this question because it looks like it has been asked a million times on the internet. I am even finding a very consistent answer, and I am not getting any errors when ...
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mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically

On a 22.04.1 Ubuntu HP EliteBook 8570w laptop the following message is displayed a number of times when I boot it without an external disk (two partitions, data not system) plugged in: mdadm: No ...
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Giving Plex Media Server Access to External EXFAT Drive on 19.10.1 RaspberryPi 4 4gb

Edit2 (SUCCESS): First off, thank you to all who responded! I got my Plex server working perfectly. I didn't get email notifications with updates to the question for some reason so I just checked and ...
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How to change the path of folders in home directory to an external HDD?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I'm trying to change the path from the special folders (I mean the ones in my home directory) to folders on my external HDD. I already auto-mounted the HDD by adding a UUID-...
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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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After upgrading to Ubuntu 23.10 I am unable to access my Seagate 10TB expansion drive

I upgraded from 23.04 to 23.10 and everything seemed to go smoothly except that I am now unable to mount my seagate 10TB expansion drive. Sometimes it is not even available but unplugging and ...
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Cannot create folder and file on external drive (Xfce, Thunar) after change of mount point

I wanted to have an ntfs partition mounted at startup, so I used this solution to mount it automatically. (Using a program to set the automatic mounting: "Storage Device Manager" - pysdm.) At a ...
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How to Change Permissions on an External Drive

Newbie here. I've got an external hard drive (EXT.4 format) that I'm trying to use as a destination for LuckyBackup. It seems that I don't have permissions to use the hard drive. I've tried to change ...
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Ownership of external drives

I am using Ubuntu 22.04 on a older hp laptop (intel core i7 with AMD Radeon Topaz - but its using the intel graphics as Topaz does not appear to be supported in 22.04) I have two external USB drives ...
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Can I install Ubuntu on the same hard drive I booted with?

I booted Ubuntu using an external hard drive. Is it possible to install it on the same hard-drive without unplugging or turning it off? I only have one working USB port and the internal PC hard-drive ...
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Is my HDD broken?

I have an external USB HDD which I think is broken. When I plug it in nothing happens. Can we confirm that is broken? Here is dmesg output: [ 7998.225453] usb 2-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 10 [...
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External ubuntu does not boot on one machine

I installed Ubuntu 22.04.03 onto an external m.2. It boots up fine on the machine it was created on and on another machine, but not on a third machine. On the third machine it starts booting, then the ...
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Ubuntu on external drive only boots up on the machine it was created on

I'm trying to create a external m.2 with ubutnu on it. On the external disk I created a new partition table using GPT and 3 partitions: efi partition, fat32, flagged boot and esp swap partition, linux-...
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Mounting WD external hard drive mybook

UPDATE: When I put in dmesg after plugging the external hd in, the output is the following (last lines): [15233.307914] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) [...
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How do I boot Ubuntu from a partition on an external hard drive after installation?

I have just finished installing Ubuntu to a 50gb partition of a 1Tb external hard drive. I was able to set up everything perfectly fine within Ubuntu and use it without any problems. Now when I enter ...
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repeated errors saving files and folders onto external hard drive. after errors harddrive becomes read only

I am having problems with my external hard drive. It has been going on for weeks. I just turned off my computer. Then I typed mount. The result was /dev/sda1 on /media/michaeo/MY_EXTERNAL_DRIVE Data ...
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Creating a portable Ubuntu system

I have a question here - how to create a portable Ubuntu 23.10 system that I can just install on my 500GB external HDD, and then plug that HDD anywhere and I'm good to go? I searched the web, found ...
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Huge data loss in folder on external HDD after moving files into it

The problem I've had a few PDF/epub files that I wanted to backup on my external drive that holds all my documents and files. I used Ctrl + X to move PDF files from my desktop directory of my home ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 and External Drives

The first external drive in Ubuntu 18.04 appears on the desktop but to access subsequent drives it seems I have to use "Files". My desktop is sometimes a bit messy and it would be easier if all ...
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External HDD with one faulty unreadable folder

I did a mistake, probably unplugging my external usb drive during a write operation. Now, the disk looks like it works fine, except one folder of the disk is shown empty. phil@GLaDOS:/media/phil/...
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Why does system asks for encryption passphrase the INACTIVE user when mounting encrypted external drive?

When I am the only user logged to my laptop (XFCE session), mounting encrypted portable HDD works as expected: I connect HDD to USB port. A window asking for encryption passphrase pops up. I enter ...
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Docker container unable to write to removable drive

I currently am running Ubuntu Jammy and have a docker container that needs to write to two external drives that were automatically mounted to /media/MYUSER/MYDRIVE while both are mounted correctly and ...
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How to mount exFAT drive on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS?

I'm trying to mount the drive but it just keeps returning this: sophie@sophie-zen:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 mount: /mnt/sda2: special device /dev/sda2 does not exist. I have so far installed ...
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hard drive was plugged into a wireless router and now doesn't work

This is the output of fdisk -l: I can't get it to mount or anything.
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How to change permission of a drive in an external hard disk?

I had an old laptop. When it got complaint I removed its hard drive and started using it as external hard disk. It has an 80 GB of memory allocation for the windows C drive partition. But now i don't ...
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external hard drives won't mount

Ubuntu Studio 22.04 stopped mounting 2 of my 3 external hard drives. Using Dolphin file manager. I've uninstalled reinstalled dolphin but still won't mount the hard drives.Somewhat a newbe here. An ...
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External hard disk not found [closed]

I use my external hard disk to be bootable. I just bought a external hard disk. I flashed ubuntu-22.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso to my external hard disk and it worked very well. But when I installed Ubuntu ...
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Create image from unallocated hdd

I want to create file.img from unallocated hdd to another hdd ( backup the hdd ) to rescue my partitions and files in it . When I dd if=/dev/sda of=dev/sdb/file.img It shows dd: failed to open '/dev/...
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Invalid filename issue when I transfer files on Ubuntu to the external drive

I backup files on Ubuntu 12.04 to the external drives. The WD external drive works well. But the Maxell external drive cannot recongnize some files names, such as the saved .html files with '|' or '/...
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How do I check the external hard disk I purchase would support Ubuntu or other linux platforms

I planning to by a 1TB portable external hard disk. I have a budget of Rs 6000( US $136 approx. ) . How do I check the external hard disk that I purchase would support operations for multiple OS's( ...
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Is It Safe to Delete My External HDD's Files/Folders That Are Hidden in Windows?

Is it safe to delete the Windows files and folders without having ANY repercussions? I do plan on using the external drive on Windows based computers here and there, but will use it on my Ubuntu based ...
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(exFAT) Unable to mount or use brand new WD MyBook 14Tb external HDD

I have an issue and I can't seem to have any solution for it. I'm trying to connect a brand new WD MyBook 14Tb to my Ubuntu computer externally. The HDD is recognized and identified but the Exfat ...
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No disk tool lists my old 4 TB spinning HDD. I can't get in contact with it

I've tried to connect it via an esata cable and via USB. It's not listed with fdisk -l. How can i mount it? dmesg | tail -n 100 Doesn't list anything about my large disk. I have just installed ...
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Ownership of External Drive on Ubuntu Server

I am having a lot of trouble with a Western Digital 6TB external drive since I've first used in a year or so ago. To begin with, I was getting into the world of servers and was making use of an old ...
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Advice? External USB harddrive accidentally unplugged (no activity at time). Re-plugged, but `mountpoint`/`findmnt`/`lsblk` disagree if mounted?

[(This really isn't an unbuntu-specific question, but yeah...)] So I just accidentally bumped and and unplugged the cable on an external USB harddrive. There was no activity at the time. It's btrfs (...
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Ubuntu external SSD only boots on computer used to install

I installed Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop with new installer from live USB onto my external SSD. There are only 3 partitions: /boot/efi (FAT) / (Ext4) (another data partition as exFAT used as regular storage) ...
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How to check, if HDD is in sleep mode?

I run a server with Ubuntu 18.04, that has HDDs connected via USB ports and I want to check, whether the HDDs are put into sleep mode. How can this be done on Ubuntu 18.04? Ideally via Terminal, since ...
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Slow speed file transfer from SSD to external HDD

I have a Ubuntu 14.04 laptop with a SATA SSD drive. I have an 2.5 inch SATA external HDD 1TB which I use as external HDD through a USB(3.0) converter. I want to take a back up of my home folder to ...
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How to (using GUI) empty a flash drive's trash without emptying the computer's?

When you delete files from a flash drive or external hard drive, files go to a trash bin located physically in the drive. But in the GUI, both the external drive's trash and the computer's trash are ...
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Grub terminal after cloning Ubuntu 16.04 from internal SSD to external HDD

I currently have Ubuntu 16.04 installed on my E580 thinkpad's 240 SSD. I want to clone my installation to an external 1Tb HDD and then replace ubuntu with Windows 10 on the SSD. The reason is that I ...

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