Questions tagged [usb-drive]
A USB drive (or USB flash drive, or thumb drive, or memory stick, or pendrive) is a portable device for storing data that includes a flash memory and has and integrated USB interface, thus can be connected to USB ports. Use this tag for questions regarding storage drives that connect using a USB port.
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How can I get back to Windows? [closed]
How can I will be able to get back to Windows 11 but only if its ISO image is available to buy and after that to have the activation key which I would log in with perhaps to really have the operating ...
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Formatting a USB flash drive
I have a simple question, but still need some advice before I continue, since I already ruined one USB flash drive once.
I am running a Ubuntu 20.04 system and have a USB flash drive of 128 GB. I want ...
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How to get the path for a new USB drive
Recently I installed a 2TB usb drive on Ubuntu 20.04, and copied some files onto it. Now I would like to read those files in a Python program, but I can't get the path to the new drive.
The drive is /...
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USB Flash Drives stopped working suddenly!
I was able to use all my flash drives in my Ubuntu desktop, when one fine day, I found them NOT working/mounting. The drives work just fine in my windows desktop and other Ubuntu desktops as well. ...
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Ubuntu Server 22.04 unmounting usb external drive
I have a thin client PC, running Ubuntu Server 22.04 with Jellyfin and Samba on it. As the machine have not much internal storage, I am using 8 TB external USB drive. I've set OS to automount the ...
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Installation of Ubuntu 22.04.03 from pendrive is stuck
I'm trying to install ubuntu on an external ssd using a bootable pendrive.
I got to grub, but when I select try or install Ubuntu this is what I see and nothing seems to be changing.a photo showing ...
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Using "eject -s /dev/sdx" appears to send more then only the SCSI eject command over USB/MSC connection
I am writing embedded STMicro.com STM32 processor code and using the STMicro.com's USB drivers. There is no other software running on the STM32 processor. It is a bit unusual, but we have managed to ...
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USB drive @ Startup
Is there a way to check at startup if a USB drive is connected and mounted.
and then launch and application or script.
I want to run a WordPress server, but the website files would be on an external ...
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22.04LTS DS-SC4B Crashing USB Controller
I got an issue with an external USB enclosure (4 ports) DS-SC4B based on the
ASMedia Technology ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s
bridge, ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge, ASM1153E SATA 6Gb/s ...
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"Wrong FS type" when inserting external storage
I installed Ubuntu for the first time and when I insert external storage, I keep receiving the following error message:
WRONG Fs type,bad option.super block on/dev/sdb1,missing codepage or helper ...
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Ubuntu not recognizing memory card as a drive
I need to create a partition on a memory card (CompactFlash).
I bought a USB memory card reader, and inserted a 512MB CF.
There are console messages (see below) indicating that the card was recognized ...
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NAND USB2DISK (0.00) No media
when I tried to install ISO on pen-drive, it didn't complete and when i remount it , it no mounting when i search it in gnome disk it is showing NAND USB2DISK (0.00) no media . when i searched for ...
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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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How to change file system of a usb drive without formatting? [duplicate]
As the question says, how to format a usb flash drive without formatting cos I don't want to lose data. I ran into an error that said file is too large for destination file system. And apparently it ...
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Can't install Ubuntu 22.04 lts [duplicate]
I was trying to install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on my 128 GB pendrive using another bootable pendrive mounted with the LTS version. I've tried it 5 times today. Each time during partition I choose 100MB for ...
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22.04 not mounting NTFS flash drive (not "Fast Boot" issue)
The damn 22.04 won't let me use the usb drive.
It is not the usb drive as it works fine in a Windows machine. It is formatted as ntfs:
As per this answer (Ubuntu 20.04 Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /...
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LUKS encrypted USB: "Operation cancelled" error on correct passphrase
I'm asking as a new question because I don't have enough rep to comment on answers, and the drive in question here is removable.
I've set up an encrypted USB drive using cryptsetup luksFormat, but I'm ...
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encfs decrypting usb folder needs root permissions
I have a usb drive with an encfs encrypted folder. I usually decrypt this with
encfs /media/user/DBx/enc /media/user/DBx/dec
When I try this with a new Ubuntu install using 22.04.3, I get the error:
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Installing Ubuntu on USB-HDD
I want to install Ubuntu on my external hard drive, but I want to use windows when I unplugged usb-hdd. How to make that?
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recovery of USB drive after accidental formats of its entire block
Yes, I was dumb enough to not check that I formatted the whole block as fat32, then NTFS and multiple attempts to rejuvenate it using dd-ing a blank disk image file.
On inspection of size using ...
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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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How to install Ubuntu 20.04 from USB? [duplicate]
I have a computer Gigabyte z170x Gaming 5. It worked under Windows 11 but now I want to install Ubuntu Desktop 20.04.
What I have made:
On other Ubuntu I have downloaded Ubuntu20.04.iso, formatted USB ...
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USB device (Android) not seen by fdisk by Ubuntu
Files on an Android phone are accessible via 'Files' in Ubuntu, however, I cannot view the thumbnails on the Android in the 'Download' folder, they must be transferred to the hdd for the thumbnails to ...
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Does anyone know where USG has made the hardening configuration of the USB storage and how to reverse the hardening?
Genuine question.
The server has a stock install of the Ubuntu Server 20.04 with the USG cis_level1_server script executed. Right now, I would like to re-enable the USB storage. How can I do that ?
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Thumbdrive doesn't show up on file manager. Can't mount it with terminal either [duplicate]
Xubuntu 22.04.2 LTS detects it but I can't access its contents
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My External hard drive keeps unmounting on USB 3.0 using exfat
I recently switched to Ubuntu from windows. I'm trying to move files from my external hard drive to my new Ubuntu installation but each time I try to copy over the files a few copy and then the drive ...
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How to know which usb port is associated to which root_hub?
I have a requirement where I would like to connect many USB devices to the system using USB hubs. Currently, I have 2 20 ports USB hub with 40 USB devices connected this way. When I am trying to add ...
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Error when getting information for file "folder/": input/output error
I've searched for some similar questions for my problem but couldn't find solution. I've flash drive that I copied some files from window OS for a long time ago,and I cannot open them on ubuntu, ...
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Smartmontools 7.3 on Ubuntu 22.04
I bought a SSD enclosure equipped with the Asmedia 2364 chipset.
Ubuntu 22.04 is shipped with Smartmontools 7.2 that does not support that chipset. Instead, the 7.3 can address it by the switch -d ...
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new Intenso 64GB stick not working in Linux, I/O-error, works fine in Windows 10 [WON'T FIX, HARDWARE INCOMPATIBLE]
TLDR: Make sure to buy USB sticks that are certified to run on Linux, as some brand new ones might not be compatible in 2023.
This is a tough one. I bought a brand new usb pen drive (Intenso 64GB, USB ...
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SD Card will mount on one machine and not on another
I have two laptops with SD Card slots. One (machine 1, Ubuntu 18.04) has the SD Card mount as /dev/mmcblk0. The other (machine 2, Ubuntu 20.04) mounts SD Cards as block devices /dev/sdx where x is ...
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I/O error while resuming from disk (hibernate) on Kubuntu booted from an external USB SSD
I installed and booted a Kubuntu 22.04 installation (Linux 5.19.0-41-generic) on an external NVME SSD drive. This is the USB device, according to lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:9210 Realtek ...
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USB ports are not working on HP laptop
The USB ports of my laptop are not working at all, It was running Ubuntu 22.04 then I updated to 23.04, to try to fix the problem. It does not detect them.
My laptop is a Hewlett Packard HP 2000 ...
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Was formatting my flash drive then I closed the process, now my flash drive isn’t showing up, what do I do?
I was formatting my flash drive then I mistakenly closed it while still formatting, now my flash drive won’t show up anymore, what do I do?
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How to use external SSD to store files for VM?
I'm using an external SSD portioned as exfat to store files for my vm. I'm using the tool virt manager to manage this.
While trying to store the vm on SSD I got this message: "The emulator may ...
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Continuously monitor usb connection status
I am facing a problem with usb port. when I connect a mobile device to my PC USB port, sometimes it becomes disconnect and immediately gets connected. So I want to monitor the USB connection status ...
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How to install drivers for the amazon Yizhet 300 Mbit / s WLAN
Hello so i have installed the package drivers from:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yo1CzwEAzqHLXFTDze05GKln-7PrlAth/view
And i have extracted the drivers file and i dont know how to install them on ...
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automatic start script on pendrive
I would like them to start a backup with rsync (type: rsync --delete -av /media/xxx/yyy /media/aaa/bbb) about 10 seconds after inserting a certain pen-drive (recognizable by VID and PID). I followed ...
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rsync copying USB to USB drive locks up system
When I use rsync to copy a 1TB dir from one USB drive to another USB drive the system goes haywire. The system load climbs up rapidly and processes trying to write to the destination drive go into the ...
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Does booting "persistent live to RAM" achieve the absolute lowest USB flash wear from a Ubuntu Live install with persistence?
Does booting "persistent live to RAM" achieve the absolute lowest USB flash wear from a Ubuntu Live install with persistence, or are there additional tweaks that can be made to reduce flash ...
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How to partitioning USB stick to act as iso image and to store files at the same time
I have 16 GB USB memory stick, I had burned a Kubuntu 22.04 iso image on it by some how. Today, I need to store some files on that stick, I realized that I have at least over 6 GB of free space on ...
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Error installing Ubuntu 22.04.1 alongside
I installed Ubuntu using dual-boot mode using balena etcher to flash the USB and shrinked the home partition in order to diminish the risk of losing data. I followed this tutorial and it all worked ...
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USB-C External Hard Drive not Detected
I was using a SanDisk 4TB USB-C external hard drive until today, when my computer stopped detecting it. It doesn't appear in Disks, and there are no logs in dmesg or /var/log/syslog when the device is ...
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Updating a pendrive with a new version, leaving other partitions alone, possible?
I have a pen drive with three partitions
Ubuntu 20 (to run as a live version, as in I used the iso with rufus to create a bootable version that also allow me to install, I am not using an installed ...
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Operation not permitted error
I am trying to compile ch34x.c driver on Ubuntu Desktop and 5.4.0-137-generic Kernel version. There is lots of driver available on internet but my kernel version do not match them. I used that driver:
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PC running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop not mounting a SATA DVD/RW drive connected via USB
I have a new mini PC running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop and wish to connect a SATA DVD/RW drive as an external device from my former PC where it was installed in one of the 5 1/2 in bays. I am using a ...
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How can I mount a removable USB drive in WSL?
So I've gone through this tutorial and have gotten USBIPD up and running on Windows 11 and the Ubuntu WSL container. Now, how can I mount a USB Mass Storage Device in WSL so that File Explorer can see ...
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Transfer to USB 3 external hard drive starts fast but slows down quickly
I've just bought a Toshiba Canvio Advance 1TB external hard drive that connects to a USB 3.0 port. I've formatted it with file system ext4 using Ubuntu's Disks utility. When I take a full backup of my ...
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How to automount a USB key when plugged in on Ubuntu 22.04
This functionality worked on my 20.04 box, but is not working on my 22.04 install.
When I plug a MicroSD drive into an SD->USB device and plug that into Ubuntu it is seen as /dev/sda1, but it is ...
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usb key half loading
When I plug in my key, the light goes on but nothing else happens.
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk
mount: /media/disk: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist.
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 4 GiB, ...
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