The actual capacity of the USB device is 8GB, but after using it as a live-usb device the available memory has reduced to 31MB. I tried formatting the device but that does not solve the problem.   Any ideas?
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I have a Sandisk Cruzer 16GB USB flash drive, but it started to show up as 16MB. And I can't use it, it tells me that I need to format the drive or Please insert a disk into drive X. What software do I need to check the flash drive?  I can't format it since the format fails, and it shows as 16MB instead of 16GB.
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I'm using ubuntu 14.04 (x86). I was trying to create a bootable dvd disk for Ubuntu 13.04. I have downloaded the image file (.iso) and successfully created a bootable USB using Startup Disk Creator. But when I tried to do the same with a 4.7 GB DVD, the Startup Disk Creator is showing DVD's capacity as 2KB and Free Space as 0.0B. It also shows a message "The device is not large enough to hold this image".
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When I type in lsusb, the device appears as ID 2357:0108  That's right, it's blank at the end. I've updated the usb ids yet its always blank. I have no idea what to install to make this thing work. I'm dual booting on mac osx
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I have a 32 GB USB stick. I was in Mac (VMWare) putting some stuff on. Then accidentally removed the drive. I put it back in, and wanted to format it. Using disk utility, I chose 1 partition, it automatically filled in 312 GB and I just clicked format or whatever. It didn't take long, then I could see the progress bar hanging at "Waiting for device to reconnect". Nothing happened for a while so I ejected it. Now comes the problem:  In Disk Utility (Mac): No sign of the USB drive.  In Paragon Partition Manager (Windows): No sign of the USB drive.  In Disk Manager (Windows): I can see that it's there. But it says: Disk 1 Removable (D:) No Media. When I right click it, I can only assign drive letters to it. No way to format.  In diskpart (Windows): diskpart list will show me the following: Disk 1, Status: No Media, Total Size: 0 B. When I eject the drive, the disk 1 will disappear. So I know that it's this drive. If I type clean, it will say that "There is no media in the device".  In HDD Low Level Format Tool 4.25 (Windows): Doesn't detect it at all.  In Device Manager (Windows): It is detected as USB Mass Storage Device.  In Gparted (Linux): Doesn't detect it.  In HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool 2.1.8 (Windows): It detects device as: "GENERIC USB Mass Storage 1.00 (0 MB) (D:)". When I press Start it gives me this error: "There is no media in the specified device"  In BIOS: Detected  In Spinrite (Live Boot): Doesn't detect it  Any help is appreciated.
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I can't format my pendrive (where ubuntu was loaded as live-usb) . Whenever I do , they say .  This partition cannot be modified because it contains a partition table; please reinitialize layout of the whole device. (udisks-error-quark, 11)  What to do ? I use Disks in Ubuntu 16.04
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The "Trash" of a 16-GB usb2 flash drive had 3.4-GB of data. I emptied it as such:     $ cd /Volumes/FooDrive/.Trashes/501   $ rm -rf *   This took over 5-seconds. That seemed pretty long. So, as a test I just decided to empty the Trash of all of my drives via Finder. Other drives: 2-TB usb3 500-GB usb2 16-GB usb2 250-GB ssd  I measured the size of the Trash as such:       $ du -ch /Volumes/WhateverDrive/.Trashes   There was 15-GB in the Trash of the 500-GB drive, and 5-GB in the Trash of my other 16-GB flash drive. I didn't measure the other drives.  Finder appeared to take much less than 5-seconds to empty the Trash for all those drives.   Does Finder really empty the Trash so much more quickly than /bin/rm? How?   Does Finder just make the "clicking sound" (signaling the trash is empty) before the Trash on all the drives is really empty?
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Is it possible to reset the connection of a USB device, without physically disconnecting/connecting from the PC?   Specifically, my device is a digital camera. I'm using gphoto2, but lately I get "device read errors", so I'd like to try to do a software-reset of the connection.   From what I can tell, there are no kernel modules being loaded for the camera. The only one that looks related is usbhid.
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I'm sure many people like me are aware and annoyed by the extremely limited amount of RAM in Nexus S (512MB but only 300+ is usable), I have searched all over google for a solution to increase the amount of RAM available and came up empty (I tried swap file applications but they just broke my system's SD card partitions causing a complete reset).  I wonder if there is any hardware solution to this problem. Is it possible to swap the chip out for a bigger capacity one? I realize that it is not as simple as swapping out PC RAM from a dimm but I haven't seen any schematics for the chip layout on the ARM boards in the smartphones so I really hope that it is somewhat possible to increase the amount of RAM on the board.
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So, somehow over the weekend, my 1GB USB flash drive has managed to become write-protected.  There is no switch on the stick, so I'm concluding that something has corrupted at some point.  Obviously I can't format it or remove.  The output from dmesg | tail is:  Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 328168 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Data Protect [current] Info fld=0x0 sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Write protected sd 73:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Write(10): 2a 00 00 05 08 00 00 00 01 00 Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 328200 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1   I think the second and final lines are a giveaway to corruption, but I don't know how to interpret this output.  Could someone help to see if this output gives any indication?  I usually eject the drive before removing it, but I may have been lax once or twice.  The data isn't critical, it's just bugging me.  Any suggestions on how to fix it (if the drive even can be) would be greatly appreciated.
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I heard that the current limit for a USB port is 100mA. However, I also heard that some devices can get up to 1.8A from a port. How do you get past the 100mA limit?
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I have an ASUS X205TA with MS Windows 8.1.  This has a 32 GB drive, but it also uses WIMBoot and has a recovery partition.  I am unable to get more than 7.5 GB of free space.  Microsoft offer a Windows 10 media creation tool to allow people to create a USB stick to upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.  I place a newly formatted 16 GB USB stick in. I download the tool from Windows. I start the tool.  The tool doesn't ever ask me where to download the stuff.  I step through the tool, it gathers info, and it stops with the error message "We need 8 GB of disc space. Remove any files or apps that you no longer need, or use Disk Cleanup to create some space, then try again".  How do I upgrade to Windows 10 with the limited amount of drive space I have available? Especially if the media creation tool can't do it.
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I am using Windows 10, and hasn't got not enough SSD storage. So, I decide to install Ubuntu in a 32 GB USB stick (made by tf card and reader ).  I will not just try Ubuntu, but will use it everyday, and will install Python, VS Code, PyCharm, etc... Hope to learn coding with this USB stick. Will it work perfectly?
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I am crawling some data using Apache Nutch and storing it on my USB Drive. The OS itself is Ubuntu Live Boot OS. But for every restart or shutdown I am losing my data. I also tried suspending my Ubuntu user still data was not visible when I reinserted my live USB.  Is there any way I can keep the data intact and does not loose and application settings installations when I do restart Ubuntu.  Used USB installer provided by pendrivelinux.com at
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I have a USB drive formatted with NTFS. I would like to use "compress contents to save disk space" option, although it is greyed out.    It works fine on the C: drive. Any suggestions?
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I have a 16GB flash drive. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. I can't open my flash drive and I can't see it in GParted.  After running tail -f /var/log/syslog . After inserting my flash:  USB disconnect, device number 10 Jul  3 16:39:55 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3309.712166] usb 2-3: new high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci Jul  3 16:39:55 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3309.846591] usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=090c, idProduct=1000 Jul  3 16:39:55 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3309.846601] usb 2-3:   New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3     Jul  3 16:39:55 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3309.846609] usb 2-3: Product: Silicon-Power     Jul  3 16:39:55 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3309.846615] usb 2-3: Manufacturer: UFD 2.0     Jul  3 16:39:55 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3309.846622] usb 2-3: SerialNumber: 1401208423400131     Jul  3 16:39:55 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3309.847176] usb-storage 2-3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected     Jul  3 16:39:55 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3309.847309] scsi12 : usb-storage 2-3:1.0     Jul  3 16:39:55 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 11: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-3"     Jul  3 16:39:55 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 11 was not an MTP device     Jul  3 16:40:17 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3332.176107] usb 2-3: reset high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci     Jul  3 16:40:33 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3347.288080] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -110     Jul  3 16:40:48 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3362.504081] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -110     Jul  3 16:40:48 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3362.720076] usb 2-3: reset high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci     Jul  3 16:40:52 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3366.812110] usb 2-3: reset high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci     Jul  3 16:41:07 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3381.924082] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -110     Jul  3 16:41:23 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3397.356093] usb 2-3: reset high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci     Jul  3 16:41:38 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3412.468057] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -110     Jul  3 16:41:54 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3428.664065] usb 2-3: reset high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci     Jul  3 16:42:09 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3443.776100] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -110     Jul  3 16:42:24 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3458.992085] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -110     Jul  3 16:42:25 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3459.208063] usb 2-3: reset high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci     Jul  3 16:42:40 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3474.320039] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -110     Jul  3 16:42:50 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3484.516109] usb 2-3: reset high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci     Jul  3 16:42:50 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3484.768108] usb 2-3: reset high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci Jul  3 16:43:05 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3499.880081] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -110 Jul  3 16:43:20 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3515.096081] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -110 Jul  3 16:43:21 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3515.312048] usb 2-3: reset high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci Jul  3 16:43:36 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3530.424032] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -110 Jul  3 16:43:46 rihanna-VGN-Z56GG-B kernel: [ 3540.505230] scsi 12:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
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I have 4 USB ports on the front of my computer and 6 in the back.  I have about 8 USB devices: external drives, sticks, cell phones, cameras.  It is often the case (40% of the time) that I plug something in (usually the external hard drive or cell phone) and it is not recognized or doesn't work correctly. My solution is to just plug it into another USB port (usually switching back-to-front or front-to-back works). I've found that this solves the problem 100% of the time.  Am I doing something wrong or is there just something "not quite baked" with USB (2.0) technology? It seems that e.g. the external hard drive "tires of its USB port" after while and needs a new one to be recognized again, i.e. there seems to be some kind of caching or ID recording that is going on.  This has happened on the last two computers that I had and still on the new one I just bought. The last two computers have USB 2.0 ports.  Can anyone explain what is going on with USB that would cause this phenomenon and perhaps what I could do so I dont' have to keep unplugging and replugging my USB devices to get them to work?
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I have some USB 3.0 ports on my motherboard which can deliver up to 900 mA of current I believe.  If I plug in a USB 2.0 cable, I can still get up to 900 mA right? I have some devices that uses USB charging and outputs from 1A to 2A but I'm not sure if the cable provided is a factor or not since I'm just using a generic USB cable for this.