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Storage drives connected by USB devices known otherwise as flash drive, memory stick, pen drive, USB stick, USB key and thumb drive. Also includes larger storage devices such as portable hard drives.

USB drives are storage drives connected by USB (Universal Serial Bus) to the computer. A USB drive -- also known as a flash drive or keychain drive -- is a plug-and-play portable storage device that uses flash memory and is lightweight enough to attach to a key chain.

Above the OS level, work with these drives does not differ much from the work with the fixed drives: they can be partitioned and partitions can be formatted OS-supported filesystems.

Such drives can also be bootable. Developers may use this capability to test new operating system without installing it, or to gain access to non-encrypted fixed hard drive if the main operating system does not boot any longer.

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ManagmentObject queries for windows (C#) to find usb device

I'm trying to find a particular USB device (1 or more) connected to my computer and retrieve the relevant path to the mounted drive. Ideally, it would be by finding the VID/PID of the USB device, but I'm not sure how to do that yet. The following…
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Will SQL Server treat a USB 3.0 External Drive as local?

I am a developer who keeps a local SQL Server instance on my laptop. We all do. I am considering getting an external drive to keep backup files and the like. In an earlier position, I used an eSATA-connected-drive which SQL Server would recognize…
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Reading data from a USB flash drive using libusb

I'm testing out some stuff in libusb (C++), but is it possible to read data (like getting folders and files) from a USB flash drive using libusb? I've searched for functions and stuff, but I haven't been able to find something. I'd love some…
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Is there Qt API which differentiates between Removable Drives and a SD Card?

I am working on a Qt application where I have a QTreewidget which displays the removable drives and local drives. I have set an icon each for local drives and a separate icon for removable drive. I have 2 removable drives... One is a USB and other…
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how to get access after hide the drive with Diskpart Command-Line Utility

I want to hide the drive from user with Diskpart Command-Line Utility . I use remove letter command and the drive becomes hidden . But I want to use the data of that drive for example in my program written in C . How I can do this or is it possible…
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Linux kernel Tree-USB Driver compilation

I got to delete a module(usb-storage.ko) from /lib/modules/KERNEL-VERSION/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/ directory named usb-storage.ko Are there any specific source files inside linux/drivers/usb/storage diractory which results in…
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How to have an USB drive readable by all but writable only by me?

I have some files (document word or pdf) to be written on an USB drive that Will be given to a second person i cannot control. I need him not to be able in ANY way to modify or delete files from the drive, but he needs to be able to read files or…
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How to remove .exe folders from pendrive?

Can anybody help me please, I have inserted pendrive (hp 4gb) & then found three folders portfolio.exe, lecture notes.exe, essay.exe, I format the pendrive & then again opened the file & found no folder is there. But when again i inserted pendrive…
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Passing URL Params to new browser window/tab on USB drive from Flash moviclip

I'm running a website from a USB drive and trying to pass parameters through the address bar to a new window when a button is clicked in the embedded flash swf. The problem is that on some workstations the parameters are stripped from the URL. On…
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How to get list of USB in winform using c#?

i have tried this code to get the usb devices in connected to the computer. This is the code: foreach (DriveInfo drive in DriveInfo.GetDrives()) { if (drive.DriveType == DriveType.Removable) { cmbUSB.Items.Add(drive.Name); …
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Determine local drive from MDItemRef

When I receive a list of MDItemRef items returned from a Spotlight query (in obj-c) I was wondering if there is an easy way to determine if they come from the OS install drive vs. an externally connected USB drive. The basic premise is that I want…
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access files on android device from pc through usb

I know it is possible to access and transfer files from a computer to an android device using adb, but is there a way of transferring a file from an android device to a computer through the usb cable without using the adb tool? The transfer should…
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C++ Builder - Handle to OS to Iterate Through All Drives

I'm using Borland C++ Builder for a project which connects to a database. There is a configuration which does backups to a USB drive. The problem with the current approach is that the drive is manually configured by the end user and sometimes…
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I am trying to take a large binary file as an input to FPGA directly through a pendrive

The file is a binary file with size of around 10 GB and I don't want to send the data by reading it through a computer. Is there any way to do it. I have also not yet purchased a FPGA board. So which board is preferred to do such a task
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AutoRunnable application for USB

I want to make an application which will reside in USB and as soon USB is plugged it will open Google.com in its default browser(It should run in all platform Mac,Windows,Linux). I tried making Autorun.inf file but it didn't help.I will appreciate…
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