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I am aware that the USB drive can be damaged if you disconnect it without ejecting it first, but is it possible to damage the computer itself?
I've disconnected my USB drive from my Macbook Pro Retina and the OS gave me a warning about an incorrectly unplugged USB drive. Can this damage the computer?
You won't damage the computer unless you remove the drive violently enough to cause physical damage to the USB connector -- that said, you might cause problems with the file structure on the USB drive, which might cause the drive to become read-only or even cause loss of data, and some operating systems (in my experience, older version of Windows, but I have little experience with Mac OS) may become confused and be unable to remount the same USB volume until you restart the computer.
I have done that countless times and I have never noticed any damage, but I have used PCs only, no MACs.
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My laptop used to come with windows 10, but then I decided to install ubuntu on it instead. Now I would like to install windows 10. Is there way to get windows 10 back?
First you will need a bootable USB - a USB flash drive that has at least 16GB of space (there are free programs that you will find available on internet to make the USB bootable), download Windows 10 ISO file and add to the USB.
Alter the BIOS sequence on your PC so your USB device is first. In most instances, the BIOS will usually not be automatically set to your device. If you skip this step, your computer will start regularly from your hard drive instead of getting boot information from your USB device, then follow the steps to install the windows OS.
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How do I access an external hard drive through bash-on-Ubuntu-on-windows. It doesn't seem to appear in either /media, /mnt or /dev, which seem the common places that people say to look for them in Ubuntu systems.
Note: the hard drive is HFS+ formatted: I use Paragon's HFS+ for windows and have already done an apt-get install hfsprogs which I think should allow the Linux part to read the HFS+ format. I have also tried with normal USB sticks, no of which seemed to appear anywhere.
The drive does appear in /cygdrive in cygwin, but when I navigate to cygdrive in bash it doesn't appear. Clearly it is not properly mounted there, but is some form of symbolical link that bash cannot see.
I'm not really sure if this is a Linux or a Windows issue, but there doesn't seem to be anything from Microsoft about it, though I realise it is early days for them.
The Ubuntu on Windows on the current build (Build 14393, a.k.a. anniversary update) doesn't support accessing external drive. This feature is on their backlog for future consideration.
Source: https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo/suggestions/13355724-unable-to-access-usb-devices-from-bash
Edit: Mounting removable drives are supported since Build 16176. [1][2]
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/18/file-system-improvements-to-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/
https://stackoverflow.com/a/44001783/643011
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-disk
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I don't understand that StackExchange, where I can post question about computers, so I think, this will be good.
Friend of mine wanted to reinstall windows and clear everything. He had windows XP. He don't know a lot of computers, so I decided, I will do that. I took his HDD to home and connected to my computer. Installation of windows XP started and everything worked well.
But when I bring HDD back to his computer and connected it, all I get after start computer is that (picture bellow). It is something like cursor, flashing on screen and never end. Does someone know, what could went wrong, when that worked well in my PC and its same windows, which he had before? (Sorry for bad english)
Windows is configured based on the hardware underneath. Installing windows in one system and then placing the HDD in another usually does not work. Use a Bootable USB to install Windows in the system as the DVD Drive isn't functional.
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Well, I screwed up big time today. The long and the short of it is that I spilled water on my MacBook Pro and the motherboard is shot. However, the hard drive seems to be okay. So I plugged the SATA cable into my PC, win 7 32bit, however I cannot find the drive. I just wanna copy some stuff over. Does anyone have any ideas?
You need to download a driver for windows to view the mac file system... search for an HFS+ driver
Even better, goto an Apple Support community :-)
One example:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1368010
http://www.markc.me.uk/blog/files/HFSOnWindows.html
there are plenty of others. I used one at home for winXP to write to hfs+
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How to programatically determine the usb port speed in embedded devices running the Linux kernel?
You can read /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb?/speed - it'll give you the bus speed of the root hub(s) in Mbps: either 1.5, 12, 480, 5000 or 10000. The first two indicate USB1 (low speed or full speed), the third USB2 and the fourth and fifth USB3.
This rather depends on were the code that needs the information is running. If you want to modify a kernel USB device drivers behavior based on connection speed then the usb_device struct that passed to the driver by the USB subsystem contains a speed enumeration. If you want an application in user space to detect the devices connection speed then try walking the /sys/bus/usb tree you should be able to identify your USB device by checking the idProduct and idVendor entries. Once you have a match then the speed entry will give you what you need.
If you have multiple devices connected then you might need to figure a way to match USB id to specific device. Generally USB to device mappings vary on any hot plug support present whether the device supplies a serial number and the sub system that abstracts the functionality provided by the USB device.