For questions regarding storage drives that connect using a USB port.
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How do I mount USB drives as given user automatically?
How do I get my USB drive to auto-mount as owned by 'me' rather than by whomever is logged in to the computer screen at the time? Often I SSH into my computer while someone else is using it, and so ...
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Unable to format my pendrive?
I have a Transcend 4 GB pen-drive. When I tried to format my pen-drive by right-clicking and selecting format, it showed:
Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1: Error calling ...
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How much space does Ubuntu use on a persistent pendrive with the updates?
This might have been asked here before......but I am wondering how much disk space on my pendrive an updated Ubuntu 12.10 OS will take up.
I have reserved 3.5 GB for it but it gave me an error ...
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Having trouble booting ubuntu 12.04 desktop from usb in windows 7
I have written the image onto my usb drive. Everything went through, however once i restart my pc, it wont read the disk. Do i need to open safemode to boot? Or should I reformat the drive and rewrite ...
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Help running Ubuntu on a USB / CD-rom
I am brand new to Linux/Ubuntu; still a devoted Win7 fan who is running Linux from a USB just to play around with it. All I can say is WOW!
But here's what I want to do: I have a freind who has a ...
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Can not install Ubuntu 11.10 through USB Stick
After I successfully unpacked to a USB drive the ISO-image and ran wubi.exe, I chose the settings there within Windows and I restarted my computer and chose Ubuntu. But this gives me the error:
Try ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS boots to command line of some kind
I recently built a computer, then installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (Desktop, AMD64)using the Universal USB Installer from pendrivelinux.com.
When it was first installed, the Unity bar (at the left) was ...
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USB Flash Drive Automounting
I'm trying to prevent my USB flashdrive from getting automounted upon insertion.
I've already set automount to false under org.gnome.desktop.media-handling, yet the flash drive continues to get ...
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How to set up a new user with admin rights on a USB Ubuntu 12.04 installation?
I have successfully installed 12.04 LTS on a USB stick with persistence and it is working well. I have even managed to add Flash player and get wifi working.
I would like to password protect the ...
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How can I partition a usb flashdrive in Win7
I want to be able to create a Ubuntu boot disk using a USB flash drive. I also want to be able to create a second partition for my data on the same drive. How can I create the partition in Win7?
The ...
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How do I restore PenDriveLinux boot load menu after accidental overwrite?
I have a USB drive with Ubuntu created from pendrivelinux.com. I've been running it off the USB drive to play with Linux on various machines without a problem. I recently installed Ubuntu to a hard ...
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How do I get drivers for a WD MyBook Essential to make it run on Ubuntu(12.10)
How do I get drivers for a WD MyBook Essential to make it run on Ubuntu(12.10)
the drive was running normal on WinXP before, in Ubuntu it is found but I cannot work with the data on the drive...
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1.5 TB USB Drive failed to mount
Seagate 1.5Tb FreeAgent USB Hard Drive. Formatted FAT32. I figure it is 75% full.
Used to work fine in XUBUNTU it shows up in Cairo Dock but when I click on it I get "failed to mount drive'. Nautilus ...
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675 views
Why can't I mount my WD My Passport USB drive?
I got a WD My Passport 1TB external HD, ubuntu recognize it as a CD but cant mount it.
I'm usin a PC
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ × 2,
Edubuntu Presice 12.04 64-bit, 500GB HDD,
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Iso size versus Disk size
Hi guys I have a curiosity.
Some days ago I installed an ubuntu on a flash disk. Then I took an image of its ext4 and swap area via dd. However, after a while I decided that I should move this ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 Black Screen
This is my current specs:
Operating System: Windows 7 x64
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz Bloomfield 45nm Technology
RAM: 6.00 GB Tripple-Channel DDR3 @539MHz (8-8-8-20)
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USB hard disk and USB flash drive keep unmounting and remounting
I wanted to backup some files on my external hard disk and just barely managed to do so, because it randomly unmounted and mounted again. My first thought was that the hard disk's life is about to ...
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How do I remove a partition from elements external hard-drive?
The hard drive was partitioned to have a ubuntu ISO boot as we didn't have a 2GB USB at the time to just put ubuntu on (What a fail I know -.-'). This partition was made with backtrack 5 KDE R3 ...
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USB suddenly stop working
I have a little problem with USB (maybe drivers) in Ubuntu 12.10.
I just surf on web and suddenly my external sound card stops working.
When I connect USB stick in USB, system won't recognize it at ...
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Can't format USB drive
I have a 4 Gig USB drive that I'd like to format.
I go to the Disk Utility, and try to format it, but it says that the device is busy. (This same error occurs no matter whether I tried to format the ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 won't boot from flashdrive
I downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 made a bootable flashdrivem via startup disk creator. But no matter what I do It just won't boot. in booting menu there are few options like USB-HDD, USB-FDD etc. I've tied ...
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Can't boot after usb install
I can't boot from the hdd after installing from a usb stick. I have to plug it back in and select to boot from it to boot form the hdd. How do I fix the bootloader?
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USB becomes unreadable after putting the .img on it-Mac
I am trying to put Ubuntu on my USB to install it on my MacBook Pro, but after following step 8 of this Ubuntu guide it becomes unreadable and it doesn't show up while rebooting my computer and ...
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Cannot mount USB Drive on Ubuntu 12.04
I have a WD 3TB external drive I used with Windows 7 just fine, and now want to use it on my laptop as a FTP accessible drive.
For some reason though I cannot mount it (I get an error when attaching ...
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Automounting my fat32 external USB drive with fstab
My hard drive is a Seagate External HD and it worked perfectly out of the box. The filesystem was NTFS and it showed up on the left hand side in Nautilus with its own icon, and it was referenced as ...
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Is it possible to install Ubuntu to my USB drive using Windows Installer?
I mean, without using a CD/DVD because I don't have an idle CD/DVD with me.
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Pen Drive not working in 12.04
My pen Drive was working before, after i updated the Ubuntu Version 12.04, USB hot plug never worked.
But i verified in Windows PC, it was working.
please help me to resolve this problem.
dmesg ...
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Problems after installing Ubuntu LiveUSB on my 2nd HD
I decided to create a Ubuntu USB installer using the Universal USB Installer, selecting a Ubuntu 12.10 ISO. I selected my D: drive, my NON-windows7 carrying drive as install. After this I Re-booted my ...
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USB disk not recognized after detaching from DVD player. What to do?
I had one Transcend 4GB USB stick formatted to NTFS and was working fine. Today I inserted this disk into a DVD player, and it was saying, "loading". After a long time, noting happened, and it seemed ...
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Ubuntu on a pendrive
I tried to install Ubuntu using the pendrivelinux link, as recommended, but my virus scanner deleted the file saying it was infected. Is there an alternative way?
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12.10 hardware and driver problems
When logging on to my x53t Asus notebook, I get to the desktop but neither my network connection, sound options nor USB connections work. No user account seems chosen either.
A window pops up asking ...
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Strange device nodes
I have been having bizarre issues. It started when I decided to install Scientific Linux Fermi 6.3 and dual boot it. First I was going to burn it to usb, but that was taking too long and I'm ...
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Ubuntu Tools for recovering data from damaged USB Flash Drive ~ 10 Gb
I have technical issues with my USB Flash Drive - JetFlash®V15 (TS16GJFV15)
It's very critical situation because I can not see the data from it and I should get a way to recover them ASAP.
So, in ...
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How to do a full installation of Ubuntu 11.04 on USB
I am trying to do a full installation of Ubuntu 11.04 on my USB stick, which can be virtualized on vmwares or virtualboxes when I plugged my USB stick. The Ubuntu must be able to save my files on the ...
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chmod: cannot access New Volume Trash 1000 Input output error
i try to make my flash-disk able to save data and everyone can use it but when i check my chmod it say
what is .trash-1000 about and why its say input/output error how to fix it ?
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Why does flash memory suddenly stop mounting?
I have this problem with my flash memory. It suddenly stopped mounting and any time I open it in any computer (even Windows 7) it tells me that I need to format it so that I can use it.
I can't format ...
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Only root-permissions to USB-drive after formatting with Gparted
I formatted my external USB-drive with GParted to ext2 file system. After that the usb-drive is automounted with root-permission and now I only can write with sudo to the drive. Of course I can change ...
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usb ssd disk mount at boot on z77 chipset
i have 12.04 ubuntu installed. I want to mount usb ssd disk at boot. After boot it detected as disk in /dev/disk/by-id/... and as /dev/sdb3.
During boot there disk are not detected.
Even after boot ...
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USB problems in 12.04
I got two problems with my USB drive and I badly need a solution asap for these. Please help me out.
My USB devices run very slow in Ubuntu. Though I have 1.1 ports on my laptop, I used to get speed ...
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How to grub-install ignore specific drive/partition
Is it possible to use grub-install or update-grub to just search on specific disk/partition? (or ignore specific)?
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my hard drive, but i wished to do some testing on it ...
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fs flushm command cleared firefox history!
I had a corrupted mount point for a USB Flash Disk. Based on some reading, I installed "openafs-client" and used "fs flushm" command. The USB issue got cleared but my entire (unlimited) Firefox ...
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How can I get Thunar's volume management notifications without Thunar running?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with Thunar installed.
I really like Thunar and its removable drive management notifications. They pop up when I insert a removable thumbdrive. However, to get those popups, ...
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Don't have permission to write / copy from my flash usb?
I have installed ubuntu 12.04.
So, i don't remember very well what i did to make my flash usb, unwritable.
Anyways it happened after i have installed gnome shell, and now i don't know how to ...
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Recover mail from thunderbird
With the update from 10.04 to 12.04 my PC froze halfway the update and the only option was to push the power button.
When i start it now i get the ubuntu starting screen but nothing else. I can get ...
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How do I use dd to write a bootsector to a flash drive?
I developed a bootsector and I tried to use dd to write the data. This resulted in the corruption of files and I had to reformat my entire flash drive. This bootsector was designed for FAT32 in mind. ...
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Adding mount options to auto mounted usb hard-disk
I am trying to set up access control lists for an external ext4 hard-disk.
I know that if it is an internal hard disk then I have to edit /etc/fstab to add option acl. But I have no idea where the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 amd64 missing files while trying to boot?
I've been trying to dual-boot Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit alongside Windows 7, but I'm having a really hard time. I'm using pendrive linux to install it to a usb drive, however when I go to boot into it, I ...
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external disk dont work on ubuntu
i have problem with in my ubuntu: when i connect external imation apollo disc i dont see a file system. Disk is working because in windows OS on this same computer it works as well.
when i typed ...
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Minimizing writes (logging etc..) to the hard drive
So I have to live without HDD, so I've decided to install Ubuntu (xubuntu) to a pendrive with a casper-rw partition.
So how to minimize the writes to the flash drive under Ubuntu ??
(because all we ...
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Update usb Driver
i just now start to use Xubuntu, and i install Xubuntu on my second laptop i had in my garage, just for put back in use.
On the ASUS xubuntu work really perfect but now after i put on my old laptop i ...
