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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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Copy files to USB using C# Windows 10 iot core

I am trying to copy .csv files created in the local folder in Windows 10 iot core. I have tried few ways but no luck. My latest code is as follows: string aqs = UsbDevice.GetDeviceSelector(0x045E, 0x0611); var myDevices = await…
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Is there a physical limit in Windows to the number of USB drives that can be mounted?

I know the drive limit can be gotten around using junction points, but is there a limit to the number of physical devices recognized/mounted in the registry and shown using the MOUNTVOL command or Win32 API?
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How to create a completely autonomous Python environment?

I want to create a completely autonomous Python environment on an USB pen drive that can run both on Windows and GNU/Linux.... How can I do that ? I've tried to build Python with `./' as prefix, but it doesn't works... anyone has another idea…
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NASM - Load code from USB Drive

Would any assembly gurus know the argument (register dl) that signifies the first USB drive? I'm working through a couple of NASM tutorials, and would like to get a physical boot (I can get a clean one with qemu). This is the section of code that…
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Boot vagrant box on an external drive (usb) with virtual box

I have Virtual box and a customized vagrant box. The thing is that my own laptop (Macbook) has only about 10 Gb of free space. So I bought a 128Gb USB Stick. Now I need to figure out a way to boot up vagrant boxes on this usb stick instead of the…
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Portable Ruby on Rails environment for Windows

Somenone asked the same question about two years ago. The answer was InstantRails at that time. But InstantRails seems to be out of date. Are there any other solutions?
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Wiping entire usb drive on Mac OS X

Is there a command for the apple terminal to brute force a wipe of everything including all partitions, master boot records, and data on a usb flash drive? Just a little information about the situation: I just got a stick from a friend which seems…
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How to block a USB device at kernel level when it's plugged(Linux)

I'm trying to block a device at kernel level. To be specific, When USB device (USB Mass Storage Device) is plugged in, I want to get its vendorid, productid, serial and let my user space thread decide whether the device attach/detach. And I met a…
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How to access USB (Pen Drive) Firmware Number from Delphi or VB6?

I want to access/read the Firmware Number of a Pendrive attached on a USB Port of a PC. How can I do this?
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What permission do I need to write to a usb pen drive on Android?

In my app, I need to write a file on an USB pen drive. On Samsung Tab 4, I have no problem at all, both in reading and in writing. My apps works great. On Asus Zenpad 10, something is different... I have no problem in reading from usb pen drive. On…
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How can I detect if there is data activity on a USB flash drive with my own circuit?

I am currently working on a project for my university course. I am design a device which will be an intermediate interface between the computer and a USB flash drive, i.e. data go from computer->my device->USB drive. One of the functions I want on…
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How to detect whether my android device supports otg cable in android

I want to detect whether my android smart phone supports USB On-The-Go . I have searched a lot in the internet but could not find any way to do that ! I have found that there is an application "USB OTG Checker" . Here is some screenshot of that…
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Map USB disk BSD Name to actual mounted drive(s) in OSX

I am trying to get from the USB device BSD Name to the actual mounted volume(s) for that device e.g. device has BSD name "disk2" and mounts a single volume with BSD name "disk2s1" at "/Volumes/USBSTICK". Here is what I have been doing so far.…
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Detect a USB drive being inserted - Windows Service

I am trying to detect a USB disk drive being inserted within a Windows Service, I have done this as a normal Windows application. The problem is the following code doesn't work for volumes. Registering the device notification: …
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no device connected while trying to connect firefox os handset with Firefox app-manager or webIDE

I need help for the following issue.. I am trying to connect Symphony GoFox F15 handset of Firefox OS with Firefox nightly v36 (browser). but it says "no device connected". I installed ADB Add-ons also. I also tried using adb.exe of android. when I…
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