I'm using an external harddrive, a Western Digital MyBook 1TB of some sort with eSATA on an eSATA II ExpressCard adapter from Belkin on Windows Vista 32-bit.
The issue I'm having is that after a while power management kicks in and puts the harddrive to sleep. When I resume my work and browse the drive, for example, the Explorer hangs and while I can still use my other apps, it takes a couple minutes for it to realize it should wake up the drive and recommence work.
What's going on?
Well, I tried searching and nothing came up. Hopefully this is not a repeat question but...
Whats the easiest way to install windows 7 from a pen drive?
There are several questions here about disabling USB storage in general via GPO but I can find no information on whether it is possible to add exceptions for specific devices. Put another way, can USB drive types that include builtin encryption be enabled but generic USB drives disabled?
This needs to work on Windows XP.
My Friend was once arguing with me for not putting on the cap of his pendrive, he said "I Just have cleaned the pen drive and removed 100's of viruses,how did u leave it open,it must have got infected again" Wow, i never knew bacteria viruses affect pen drives...
I have a C program that works like a virus. The professor asked me to modify it in such a way that as soon as the pen drive (containing the program) is inserted into the computer it starts executing by itself. How can I achieve this?
I have an external hard disk where I have created many partitions to use also in Linux.
First two partitions are FAT32. The third is a Truecrypt partition. I cannot assign a letter to the second partition.
When I go to Manage disk and right-click on the unassigned partition, most of the options are not enabled.
What have I to do to see this partition on my XP PC?
I have a bootable ISO designed to be burned to a double-layer DVD. I don't have a double layer DVD burner, so I would like to stick the ISO image on a 50 GB partition on a USB harddrive I have. How do I get the boot info onto the hard drive?
If it helps, it's an OSx86 Live CD.
Attempt 1:
booted into Ubuntu 9.04 LiveCD
deleted the partition on my existing USB harddrive
sudo dd if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/MyUSB
booted to USB drive
error: Error Loading OS
Atempt 2:
booted into Ubuntu 9.04 LiveCD
deleted the partition on my existing USB harddrive
sudo mkdosfs -I -v -n iPC /dev/MyUSB
sudo syslinux /dev/MyUSB
sudo dd if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/MyUSB
booted to USB drive
error: Selected boot device not available - strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility
My new PC I just finished building has USB 3.0 support as well as eSATA. So this has me wondering, I use a USB stick/thumb drive all the time on my PC for stuff, is there an equivalent available anywhere for USB 3.0 or even eSATA?
Hello, I have GIGABYTE w566 laptop, and I do not know how to find out what my Intell Chipset is, and my problem actually is that in boot time my computer not detect usb LG (super-multi) cd-dvd drive. Windows. by the way, still know to access to device, I have problem only in boot time.
Some one know what to do?
Thank you for ahead.
I recently installed Fedora 12 on my USB drive. But I am not able to save the changes I do in a live session. I created 2 users and put some icons in desktop... But after I restarted Fedora from the live usb, the changes could not be seen.
Can anybody suggest what to do to save the changes?
Everytime I plug my flash drive on school. It gets infected by this regsvr.exe and many others. Even if my fd is already vaccinated by panda antivirus it still gets infected even if I'm not accessing it via the computer. I just plug it in without doing anything and it still gets infected. Is it possible to avoid it when plugging your fd to an infected computer?
I tried to upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Unfortunately, during the upgrade process I receive the following error:
Sorry, it looks like this PC can't run Windows 8.1. This might be
because the Users or Program Files folder is being redirected to
another partition.
Which is accurate in that I have my Users directory on my D: drive and Windows installed on my C: drive. I do this because my C: drive is an SSD drive and D: drive is a spinning rust drive where I keep my data. Is it possible to upgrade to Windows 8.1 from a Windows 8 install with a redirected Users folder?
I do not consider a full reinstall of Windows 8 with a non-mapped Users folder and then upgrading that installation to be "upgrading."
I have this 8 gb toshiba flash drive and my motherboard also allows booting from removable devices. But I don't know, I've already tried to make the fd bootable and set in the bios to boot from fd. But it doesn't work. Are flash drives always bootable?
I am looking to get a new USB drive (my old one took an unauthorized vacation) and am looking into how to secure the data on it. Ideally I would like a visible, unencrypted space that may or maynot be bootable then an encrypted area for low security files followed by a second encrypted space for the most secure files.
Is there a solution that will handle this?
I use Microsoft SkyDrive and Google Drive.
I was wondering if it was possible to map to a folder on a cloud service via FTP or something similar? I don't see any obvious ways on Google, or SkyDrive web sites.
I know they each have their custom applications to access the cloud storage files. But my network admins block traffic on those applications. So I was looking for another way to access the files (not through the web site either).
I have several external hard disks with different brands. Each time I connect those hard disk to my laptop (with USB), there is no option for Safely Remove Hardware / Eject. This problem only seem to occur with external hard disks, since the option is there if I connect with USB Flash Drives.
Why is it happening and is there any way to enable it? What is the best method to remove an external hard disk?
So I was attempting to encrypt my (Windows 7) system drive with Truecrypt and it stopped at around 15% and said that there was a segment error and that it could not proceed until it was fixed. So, I restarted the computer and ran HDD Regenerator which subsequently fixed the bad sectors on the drive, but now my system cannot boot.
So, I run a number of recovery disks to no avail (Windows repair is unable to fix) and the drive won't mount on a linux version run from a CD because the drive is encrypted. So I tried mounting the drive using Truecrypt under the Linux distribution on the disk and selected "Mount partition using system encryption without pre-boot authentication" so I can decrypt, but I get an error message about it only being possible once the entire system is encrypted.
How do I get out of this mess? I need to be able to back up the data that's on that partially encrypted drive so I can reinstall my operating system.
I've downloaded an .iso file but don't have a DVD writer at the moment - is there a recommended Virtual DVD drive that I can use to install from the .iso file?
OS: Vista, SP1
My SD/MMC drive does not appear anywhere (MyComputer, Disk Manager). In My Computer the only available drives ar C:\, D:\ and J:. I can no longer view any removable disk drives. When I put my SD card into its slot, it doesn't get read at all. I can't load pictures from my card to my PC.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I want to know how is data I/O takes place on flash drives which are typically EEPROM's . I thought so as I was writing a C Program that involves file handling .
For a normal HDD , that would involve returning the file pointer and reading or writing data to the disk which would be done by read/write HEAD . While in EEPROM's there is no read/write head , as it's works on mnemonic commands , So how come does the C file handling program works when I apply it to a file on flash drive ?
I have an external hard disk, where I have created many partitions to use also in Linux. The first two partitions are FAT32. The third is a Truecrypt Partition. I cannot assign a letter to the second partition. When I go to Manage disk and make right clic on the unassigned partition, most of the items are not enables. See screenshot: http://i42.tinypic.com/ofsh9u.jpg
What have I to do to see this partition on my XP pc?
I'm looking to get a fault-tolerant USB flash drive, which saves data to multiple independent locations, whether using RAID or some other means to back up data. Has a product like this ever been created, or are my only options to hack something together?
(By the way: I'm aware that RAID doesn't prevent data corruption from software or the file system. I'm just looking for something that can handle one of the memory sticks going dead.)
I have a pen drive with some folders in it's root. I want to encrypt all of them except one.
Is possible to do this with TrueCrypt? Maybe this is not the right tool for this task, but I don't know any other.
Is there a utility I can use that will take a backup of my flash drive every time I insert it into the computer with out me having to take any action?
I would prefer something that runs on mac and windows.