Questions tagged [usb-drive]
Any storage device with a USB interface (USB stick, USB hard disk, …).
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no suitable video mode found booting in blind mode kali Linux
no suitable video mode found booting in blind mode kali
Hp z440 workstation tower pc
Plz help me fix the error
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Linux removable drive stuck problem when reading large number of files
I have several USB removable drives that I have connected to my single-board computer to use as a NAS. The operating system I am using is Armbian, which is a Debian-like system.
Ok, this is the ...
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cant run linux mint on usb stick (no access to hard drive currently) kernel panic not syncing attempted to kill init exitcode=0x00000009
I have swapped out the cpu for another one though, it’s a sony vaio vpcf11s1e with gt 330m, i3 350qm and 8 gbs of ddr3 ram.
I had to swap out the i7 720qm for an i3 350m what was laying around i7 was ...
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Ubuntu and other software completely unable to detect a usb drive
I was attempting to flash a USB drive so that I could install Windows on a different HDD, but in the process, it became completely unreadable.
So now whenever I try using it it does not appear in any ...
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Installation speed using USB thumb drives
On the command line, I cp'd the debian 11.7 install image, which is a large 3.7GB isohybrid file, from my desktop SSD, to each of two different ~8 year old 8GB thumb drives (memory sticks), neither of ...
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display usb device type (usb 2.0 usb 3.0)
How to display usb device generation number?
I need to confirm usb storage device is usb 3.0. Is it possible to confirm on command line USB device generation? Not the port, port already confirmed as ...
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FSTRIM for USB-SSD boot drive
I would put my Ubuntu 22.04 NVME disk into this USB 3.2 20Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure and boot it from a USB 3.2x2 port.
I know that a SSD needs to be trimmed by FSTRIM, but I also read that ...
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OpenBSD USB install; how to mount usb and find file sets:
During an OpenBSD install from USB, if one has reached the Pathname to the sets? prompt and the USB stick is not mounted, how does one find the usb device name, mount the usb drive and direct the ...
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The usb drive with Debian with UEFI can't be powered on on another old PC with UEFI on
I installed the Debian system on a usb drive with UEFI and I can boot it in two computers by inserting it. However, in my old PC (Aspire E 15 E5-571G-57D9), the usb drive can't be boot with UEFI ...
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Can I recover data created on a CAINE linux live usb
Long story short I had to do a mock static exam for my college digital forensics class. I went through and screenshotted stuff and then copied it to a usb export drive that i mounted. All is well and ...
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How can I add more storage to a persistent usb with Linux mint on it?
I have created a persistent usb with Linux Mint on a 128 Gb thumb drive. When I first created it I guess I only allocated 80 Gb for persistence. Now that I have been using it for a couple months the ...
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Arch Linux Manjora XFCE and DBAN dl/USB burn help
I need DBAN and Arch Manjora on a bootable USB stick. I can only find .iso files for this and none of my PCs will accept these as bootable once I burn them.
I've tried many times, and formatted many ...
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how to troubleshoot slow usb drive?
TLDR: How do I troubleshoot a slow usb 3.1 device plugged into a laptop.
ISSUE: When I copy (tried GUI and terminal) the first few .iso files copy almost instantly 300mb/s+, but then the 3rd/4th start ...
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New USB stick freezes processes that come in contact with it (dd, fdisk, gparted, etc)
I bought a new USB stick to upgrade my os (debian) on my laptop. I used gnome-multi-writer to write the .iso file into the device. The writing process never showed a message of success or error so I ...
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Booting encrypted root with encrypted USB key
Running Debian 11 with grub, full disk encryption (no LVM) on /dev/sdb2, unencrypted /boot/efi on /dev/sdb1.
At boot, I want two options:
typing password
plugging an encrypted USB key (which stores a ...
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How to automatically mount ZFS external USB flash drive when I insert it
In Ubuntu 20.04, I installed the zfsutils-linux package and formatted an external USB thumbdrive to use ZFS (sudo zpool create mypool /dev/sdb). I then changed its mount point to /media/user/mypool (...
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How to allow non-root user to write to ZFS external USB flash drive
In Ubuntu 20.04, I installed the zfsutils-linux package and formatted an external USB thumbdrive to use ZFS (sudo zpool create mypool /dev/sdb). However, the mounted pool at /mypool is only writable ...
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Unable to format my USB Flash Drive after installing a Distro to the drive itself
This may sound stupid, and it is, I installed a distro directly into my flash drive, after checking everything worked I loaded kali liveUSB to try and format it back to it's original size, however ...
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USB drive 'NTFS' works on some Windows platforms but not others, very annoying
I have two USB-sticks, a newer 'blue' 3.0 one and older 2.0 one which are now and then used for different purposes, sometimes I may turn one into a Linux live USB to test some distro, other times I ...
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USB stick: device not accepting address, error -71
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Recently, my USB stick been unrecognized by the OS.
Therefore I would like to copy it entirely on my hard disk drive asap.
However, neither on windows nor linux, the USB stick appears.
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How to unplug/unmount USB Flash card, which was automounted?
I have configured my flash card to automount with the following lines inf fstab:
UUID=6364-3963 /mnt/Flash03 auto noauto,nofail,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=2
UUID=3537-3561 /mnt/...
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(udisks-error-quark, 0) error while trying to open my USB flash memory
I had an Ubuntu 22.04 running wth no problems but decided to change my SSD card and install the exact same Ubuntu on a new SSD. So I copied some important files into a USB flash memory and after it ...
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How to reset zpool after accidentally disconnecting a drive?
I am using OpenZFS on macOS (openzfsonosx.org), on a USB drive. It turns out that if I accidentally disconnect the drive from the computer, then zpool gives errors. However, if I reboot and reconnect, ...
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I accidentally remove the usb when live
Can someone show me how to fix this please ?
Here some more information about kernel version and ram
Linux kali 6.0.0-kali3-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.0.7-1kali1 (2022-11-07) x86_64 GNU/...
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Automount USB flash drive on CLI (no fstab solutions please!)
I have been looking for how to automount a USB flash/thumb drive on a Linux machine which does not have a GUI. So, it must be CLI-only solution. The most common answer I found was based on editing ...
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mounting lvm file system on sandisk fails: can't read superblock
my situation is this: I have added a sandisk to extend my laptop's memory capacity.
On the sandisk, in /media/sd, I have made a volume group, vg2, with two lvm logical volumes: bu and vbox.
I have ...
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Former Bootable Thumb drive preventing Raspberry Pi from booting up
I have a problem with a 64 GB USB Thumb Drive. I used it for a CentOS bootable drive. I've tried the following things, but the drive stops my Raspberry 4 (Raspian Lite) from booting up. When I take ...
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Can you use one Bootable USB Drive on two different OS devices?
When you install a distro on a usb can you run it on two different OS's like Mac and Windows without any issues on any device.
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How to copy casper-rw persistent USB install to a new HDD?
I'm somewhat of a beginner with Linux, sorry for the dumb question.
I installed a persistent Linux Mint install to a USB drive. It has been working well, but now I want to install it directly to a new ...
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Linux mint not installing from USB
I created a Linux Mint Drive on a USB and have successfully installed it on one of my laptops (using this guide). When I try to install it on another laptop, the installation proceeds as normal (no ...
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"reset SuperSpeed USB device number 1 using xhci_hcd" kernel log message
When steadily reading data off a connected via USB3 HDD drive (cat /dev/sdx > /dev/null) in a VirtualBox VM (Host: Fedora 37, guest: doesn't matter) I see a constant stream of kernel messages ...
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Unable to access or safely remove encrypted device
Details: I have a bootable encrypted HDD (running Linux mint). I have cryptsetup (2:2.4.3-1ubuntu1.1) installed on my main machine.
I can access the unencrypted partition of the 1TB HDD. The system ...
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Unplugged External Drive During Write Operation, Now Spins Up But Can not Mount
I have a 2 TB external USB HDD backup drive. While I was copying some files with nautilus (GUI file explorer) the cord got pulled, but did not come completely out. However, communication was ...
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blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdx. Disk fails after boot
I'm trying to create a personal home media server using Raspberry Pi 4 model B with OMV. I'm connecting four external hard drives through a single USB hub with a dedicated power source.
At first, when ...
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how to solve `XFS Filesystem has duplicate UUID - can't mount` without reboot?
I use udiskctl to mount my usb disks. From time to time my usb hub has power problem that when I turn on some device using large current, the hub will reset all connections. This results in ...
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Debian 11 suddenly stopped detecting USB drives and HDMI, other USB devices and DisplayPort continue to work
I have a rather basic Debian 11 installation, kernel 5.10.0-8-amd64. I have never tinkered much with the lower-level settings.
Overnight two things changed:
xrandr suddenly does not detect the HDMI ...
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How to unbrick a USB device that I bricked with testdisk?
I have a old USB 3.0 Blue DataTraveller 64 GB that I somehow managed to brick with testdisk. It had a big ExFAT partition and a small FAT16 partition made through Ventoy.
A folders contents didn't ...
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External HD with Geekworm X820 on Ubuntu
I have built a Raspberry Pi-based server using a SATA disk and the Geekworm X820 USB-to-SATA adapter.
Using a USB-A to USB-A cable, it should be possible to connect it to any PC instead of the Pi, ...
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USB flash drive recognised by dmesg&lsusb but not as device in /dev/sd*
If I connect the usb drive to my maschine I can see, that it is indeed connected, yet I can't find the device in /dev/sd*
The following is shown in dmesg (lsusb also sees the device):
usb 1-2: new ...
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Trying to restore an external USB SSD that got unplug unsafely
I'm running Debian, and the SSD is formatted with NTFS. I'm trying to at least get back the data on it if it's still there.
It is not recognized with the fdisk -l. And it's apparently unable to be ...
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What happens if I edit "/dev/sda"
I know what /dev/sda is (no need to explain), along with sdb, etc. But what happens if I, say, encrypt sda? Will that encrypt the drive it refers to? More importantly, though, could I then decrypt sda ...
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Drives under /media/user/ are denoted by an alphanumeric string - how are they generated?
I noticed that my thumb drives and hard drivers are in the location /media/user and are denoted as a string of alphabets and numbers instead of their names such as 1A2B-3C4D. I never named my drives ...
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GRUB2 - Booting ISO from USB-Drive gives ERROR - KDE neon, ArchLinux, Windows 10 - MuliBoot
I am trying to set up a multiboot ISO USB-Drive and I get error messages when I start the ISO file.
As I see it, the loopback device is executed properly, otherwise no iso would start. However, the ...
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File-systems on both the device and the partition?
Can anyone help me figure out what is going on in the following situation. It seems messed up.
This is the pertinent part of the output of lsblk:
sdc Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS amd64 28.8G 2021-...
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How to fix/debug Kali-Linux freeze after starting Virtualbox VM on USB network adapter (Bridged)
Description of steps to reproduce bug:
Step 1 - Connect USB network adapter
Step 2 - Network settings of VM to Bridged Adapter and select the wlan from the USB network adapter
Step 3 - Start VM
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Can't access an SD card plugged in through a USB adapter
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The Disks utility doesn't allow formatting the disk. I, also, tried running sudo fdisk /dev/sda, but it returned cannot open /dev/sda: No medium found.
I tried it with two different ...
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Wireless 11ac usb adapter driver installation error
I decide to buy Wireless 11AC USB adapter and download drivers,, after install I check by ip link or ifconfig and I didn't see wlan connection. When I tried download another drivers to install I got ...
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Programatically Re-start USB Bluetooth Adapter
Folks I have a usb bluetooth dongle which only works after I remove and re-attach it, can I mount un-mount it from command line to have it to be programmatically re-attached? It is the following ...
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How to compile and insmod usbmouse.c?
I'm trying to develop an usb mouse driver for Linux. As far as I know, I can start with usbmouse.c and build from there. I wish to insert a few printk calls, insmod the driver, plug an usb device and ...
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Why can't you use a USB stick as the storage media for Apple's Time Machine (backup utility)
Apologies for an Apple specific question. I'll delete it if someone can point me at a more Apple-specific Exchange site.
Question is: why doesn't Apple's Time Machine (backup utility) recognize a USB ...
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