For questions regarding storage drives that connect using a USB port.
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Trouble With Persistence After Making a USB Live Thumb Drive Using Pendrivelinux
I created a bootable Ubuntu on my 32GB thumb drive (on a NTFS partition) and I selected a persistence of 4GB.
I've noticed that when I reboot from the initial booting off of the USB thumb drive, ...
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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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Running Ubuntu on a USB flash drive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Running Ubuntu from a USB Flash drive on Acer
I have a tablet (Samsung Slate) that has Windows 8 on it and not enough space to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu, so I decided ...
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How can I install ubuntu from the ISO in Windows?
I don't have a usb stick or discs available to boot from, so is there anyway I can use the ISO image to install from within windows?
I tried using the Windows installer but the download keeps ...
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Unable to boot to Live USB linux [closed]
I am trying to test different distros from a specific usb thumb drive that I have. I am installing them using UNetBootIn. The installation goes fine. I am doing this process from Xubuntu 12.10 live ...
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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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can i retrieve my files from my hdd after windows crash by booting from usb?
yesterday i tried turning on my toshiba satellite laptop but it started booting and crashed after showing a blue screen for half a second.
and before i reinstall windows ,i want to backup my files, so ...
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My MacBook Pro does not show Ubuntu USB while holding Alt/Option Key
I'm unable to see my newly created 12.04 in the list after holding alt/option when restarting my MacBook Pro
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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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How can I use my USB flash drive again after I zeroed it out in Disks?
I've used the "Disks" utility to zero out a USB flash drive (pendrive). Now it's not showing up anymore as a usable storage medium.
I need to use this usb drive (of 4 GB) again to write an OS image ...
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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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Can I install the latest Ubuntu OS on a 4.0GB flashdrive? [closed]
That is all I need to know. Thank you for your answers.
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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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Pendrive not detecting after formatting disk utility
After running sudo fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): ...
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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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How to install and use Ubuntu from a USB flash drive on Windows 8?
I'd like to fully install Ubuntu 12.10 onto a 16GB USB 3.0 flash drive, not create a LiveUSB, but to treat the flash drive as an external hard drive.
I've read it's possible and I know my computer ...
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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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1answer
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1 TB Dell USB hard disk not getting recognized
Dell USB hard disk not recognized in Ubuntu 11.10
When I insert the USB disk I do not see it in Nautilus (left hand pane)
lsusb surprisingly fails to report any pciid:vendor id related to the ...
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How do I mount an encrypted /home directory on another Ubuntu machine?
I've done something a bit, well, strange. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 directly onto a USB thumb stick, encrypting the /home directory as given the option during the install. The filesystem is btrfs, I ...
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How can I make my pendrive bootable (My UBUNTU copy is not an ISO file)?
I have UBUNTU 12.04 LTS OS. Its not an image file/ISO image. I have searched a lot about how to make a pendrive bootable in order to install ubuntu, but everywhere they assume that I have ISO file. ...
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HP Pavilion no wireless w/ubuntu 12.10 and a wired connection isn't possible. Is there a download could get with my windows comp and put on USB key [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I install software or packages without Internet (offline)?
I have no wireless connection with Ubuntu 12.10. Using a HP Pavilion DV6000. I have read other ...
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Ubuntu12.10 “Disks” Pendrive 64GB format LUKS+ext4
I just bought Pendrive / Flshdrive 64GB and need to archive on it file bigger than 10GB so i believe FAT32 is not an good option since it can handle only 4GB file in size. Next thing is that i though ...
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When can I safely unplug an external drive on 12.10?
I have browsed several answers... but none seems to address my question.
As reported in bug #1067876 the options to "safely remove" an external drive is gone.
No problem! Umount is sufficient for ...
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External USB hard drive formatted E2fs/E3fs permissions
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 on a laptop computer. I have an external USB disk drive formatted E2fs/E3fs by another linux system (specifically a Linksys NSLU2 running stock Linksys firmware). From the ...
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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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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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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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1answer
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Encrypting FAT32 with Luks
In previous versions of Ubuntu I was able to encrypt USB flashdrives using the disks tool in any format I pleased. Now unfortunately I am only able to encrypt a flash drive in EXT format. This is ...
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reasonable USB mount points
Plugging in my Android cellphone in Mass Storage mode mounts the SD card via USB onto an insane pathname like
/media/sp;<_html>/
which of course causes problems later with other programs like ...
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How to speed up copying files to NTFS drive?
I recently bought new USB 3.0 flash drive (write speed: 110 MB/s, read speed: 190 MB/s). And I have Dell XPS 13 (it has SSD and USB 3.0).
My problem is speed of copying files to the USB flash stick.
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How do I format a TrueCrypt-encrypted flashdrive?
I encrypted a flashdrive using TrueCrypt, but now I've changed my mind and I want to format it as an unencrypted drive. When I plug it in it is no longer appears on the launcher or in the Nautilus ...
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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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What kind of FileSystem do you recommend for USB Flash Drive?
This is a problem I'm having when using Ubuntu: I have two computers that have Ubuntu installed on them (comp1 and comp2). I create a document with Ubuntu on comp1 and then copy the file onto a FAT ...
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USB Stick won't boot
So I wanted to play around with CHrome OS, and installed the Vanilla version of Chromium OS to my trusty USB Stick. I used the Win32DiskImager.exe to install the OS to the USB stick. All went well, ...
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I boot my usb and the copyrights details show but I cannot go anywhere from there? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install Ubuntu from an USB drive / create a live USB-stick?
How can I create a bootable USB disk from a CD image?
I plug in my usb and turn my computer and ...
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Install Ubuntu on a USB Hard Drive (not Live)
Some time ago I made a question asking How to install Ubuntu on a USB external Hard Drive without losing its external storage ability. They've closed my question and sent to this one.
Today I did the ...
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How to install Ubuntu in a pen drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install Ubuntu to a USB key?
I'd like to install Ubuntu in a pen drive (not install it from a pen drive), because I have an old laptop with a damaged HDD ...
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What are the pros and cons of each USB disk format?
In DISK UTILITY when you choose format drive, there are four options. I would like to know what's best and fastest for USB flash drives, USB HDD and any differences between each format type.
The ...
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USB Device first mounted as root, then by user
When I connect my Kindle, it shows up as an usb0 media, which I can read but not write (owner = root).
However, if I do sudo umount /media/usb0, usb0 gets unmounted and a Kindle media gets mounted ...
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1answer
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Why am I getting such slow file transfer performance?
Copying 4GB from a USB flash drive to my Linux partition. The flash drive is NTFS formatted (I believe, it's Windows formatted). The transfer is incredibly slow and blocks the computer frequently ...
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Error running from usb stick: “ settings could not be detected correctly” [closed]
The details are that I used Universal USB Installer version 1.9.1.8 from http://www.pendrivelinux.com to install Ubuntu 12.10 onto a 4GB pendrive as per instruction on Ubuntu's website. However, after ...
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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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Cannot Create Bootable USB Drive from .iso file
I've tried formatting the flash drive as FAT as well as Mac OS journaled through diskutility but still cannot successfully create a bootable drive. I'm following the directions here exactly: ...
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1answer
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How to run Ubuntu after extracting the zip file to USB pen drive
I want to install Ubuntu in my USB pen drive. My current OS is Windows 7 enterprise. I downloaded Ubuntu as zip file (using torrent) and I extracted the files to my USB pen drive. Now what should I do ...
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I tried to create a USB stick from Mac OSX and it ruined my flash drive [closed]
I followed the instructions on the page, but when I restarted my Mac, only the hard drive was available to boot from. I went ahead and did, and then a notification popped up that said that my computer ...
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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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Bootable Pendrive with 12.10 boots into Memtest86+
As the title says, I created a bootable USB Pendrive with Ubuntu 12.10, following the instructions found in Ubuntu's page, in order to install it to my PC.
When I reboot the computer with the the ...
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Grub2 attempting to boot hd1 when it should boot hd0
I'm attempting to perform a "normal" install on a USB3 SSD (I don't know if it is noteworthy, but I don't have a swap partition). The installation proceeds normally (I'm installing from a USB2 device ...
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Mount and unmount errors when usb is connected in 12.10.
I just installed 12.10 and noticed some strange behaviour every time I connect a USB storage device. It reports I already have the device mounted by a different user but there is only one user account ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Install
Hello
Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu from a flash drive? I think I know how to do it but I don't want to delete my windows...
I have Linux and Windows on the same computer you see that's my ...
