Questions tagged [usb-flash-drive]
USB Flash Drives are portable USB drives that rely upon flash storage, also known as pen drives or USB sticks.
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USB devices refuse to show up in the boot menu
My laptop is ASUS Vivobook S14. System is UEFI, non-CSM. I have 2 USB that I did this test on : 16GB TOSHIBA, 8GB Lexar. The OS that I've been meaning to boot is the newest Tails OS (7.4.2) that's ...
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Why do USB flash drives give the system broken files without notifying them of read errors?
I have accumulated a lot of USB flash drives that are broken, but are still detected in the system. And they are all united by the following problem - they corrupt files. That is, I write a file to a ...
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Was my NTFS formatted Kingston Data Traveller DT50 corrupted by my FRITZ!Box 7490?
I have an older Kingston Data Traveller DT50 (16GB) connected to a FRITZ!Box 7490.
In the past the NTFS filesystem on it had been corrupted for no obvious reason from time to time.
I had configured ...
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Are old NAND devices safe to use? [duplicate]
I found several SD/SDHC/microSD/microSDHC cards and USB drives, some used, some in original packaging. Their manufacturing dates range all over the 2010's, and the used ones have not seen power for at ...
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Did Windows 11 Break Diskpart? Or Am I Dumb?
I have several thumb drives that I've been playing with putting Linux distros on to experiment with my new Raspberri Pi. I've had problems using the Windows 11 GUI disk formatter and diskpart in the ...
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Why does my USB flash drive only work on USB 2.0 ports and is not detected on USB 3.0/3.2 ports after Windows install?
Device Information:
Device: Kingston DataTraveler SE9 G3
Capacity: 128 GB
Interface: USB 3.2
Motherboard:
GIGABYTE B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7
The USB flash drive is not functioning correctly when ...
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Is it possible to tell the what lifespan is left of a USB flash drive?
I have a relatively high quality SanDisk USB 3.0 flash drive. I have had it for a while (years). Can these flash drives be interrogated either under Windows, Linux, or macOS to disclose any firmware ...
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USB Flash stick mounts and shows files but changes do not persist and unable to format / partition
I have a (relatively new) 32Gb USB Flash storage stick. At some point, I did something to it which caused it to completely break. I can't remember exactly what happened, but it was possibly something ...
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How Windows assigns letters to removable units and how to keep it? [duplicate]
I need to link a process to a specific microsd drive. The problem is that seems that every time I insert the memory its letter may change. It depends even on the other units inserted at the same time.
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Why can’t a USB flash drive be recognized when plugged into the laptop?
I used USB flash drive to install Windows 11 into a laptop. When I went to Windows Setup screen, in the "Choose the boot driver " tab it said:
Windows can’t be installed on driver 0 ...
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Why does a bootable USB flash drive work on a Chromebook but not on a Windows PC?
I made a bootable USB flash drive for Arch Linux using Rufus on my laptop. I had made it for my Chromebook because my laptop screen was broken. Now I'm trying to use it on another PC, but it won't ...
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Why does Ghostscript show /undefinedfilename when working on files on external/secondary disks after upgrading to Ubuntu 25.10?
I am puzzled by the following issue: When converting an *.eps file to pdf, I used to use the following Ghostscript command (note the file locations are on some secondary hard drive or USB stick)
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Why am I getting a Chromebook dd command error: No space left on a drive that has enough space?
I'm trying to put Ventoy on a 128 GB flash drive, but when I tried to use the dd command, I got this error:
wolfy@penguin:~$ sudo dd if=ventoyiso.iso of=/dev/sda bs=4M status=progress
dd: error ...
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Why does a USB flash drive crash a computer?
I plugged in a USB flash drive with old pictures on it and loaded up an old picture that was a JPEG file. The picture immediately started becoming red and grainy.
As I tried a couple more pictures and ...
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Is it possible to combine USB drives of different sizes?
I have two advertised 32GB flash drives and want to combine the two with an advertised 256GB drive. Is it possible to combine the capacity/storage, and how can I do it?
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