Hello, I am using a special data transfer cable with particular softwares: Bravura & PCLinq5 to link 2 mini-PC sticks together to recognize each other’s C Drives to wipe them clean and reformat to them, but I’m not able to see the C Drives of each no matter what I do. Both use Win 10. Is there any software that I can download that can see both C Drives? Any suggestions please is appreciated. thank you
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How Can I Access a 2nd C Drive Linking 2 PC’s With USB Data ‘Transfer’ Cable
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wiping a C:\ drive while it is in use by the OS it is running off will not be possible.
a simple solution is to remove the PC2's drive, connect it to PC1 and format it.
it won't be possible to then connect PC1's drive to PC2 as PC2 would no longer have an OS to boot to.
another solution, put the drives into and external caddy and format on a third PC.
or create a Linux distro on a bootable USB stick, boot from that stick, and erase each drive while still in each PC.
a simple solution is to remove the PC2's drive, connect it to PC1 and format it.
it won't be possible to then connect PC1's drive to PC2 as PC2 would no longer have an OS to boot to.
another solution, put the drives into and external caddy and format on a third PC.
or create a Linux distro on a bootable USB stick, boot from that stick, and erase each drive while still in each PC.
Hello thank you for your quick reply, I have 3 Asus TS10 VivoSticks with Win 10 on them and 1 AceMacigian Pro mini-PC box with Win 11 on it. On the Asus stix (Win 10) I find it impossible to "fully" turn off automatic updates, and it floods the 32gb drive to a mere 100's mb size. On the Ace box (Win 11) I see the option of turning off automatic updates so far.
I can’t do a reinstall of Win 10 on the stix nor install any 3rd-party softwares to convert them to a Linux system because of the lack of disk space. So I’m giving up on MSFT and trying to wipe all drives and re-format the file system to EXT4 and install Debian with a Deepin distro. But I still can’t get Linux on the drives because there is no space on any 32 gb stix.
I tried this using Rufus and BalenaEtcher but to no avail, so I bought a USB data transfer cable with Bravura and PCLinq5 to try and link 2 stix and remotely wipe one drive through the cable but the target C Drive does not show up under File Explorer - This PC so I can’t reformat it to install Linux Debian / Deepin. I also tried Eassos DiskGenius to remotely access the 2nd stix target C Drive but its not being recognized.
I want to do the same for the Ace box and wipe Win 11 off and go Linux but that is not crucial right now since I have 256 gb size on that drive and auto updates is turned off so the stix is the first hurdle with the box being done right afterwards if I’m successful at this. But I’m not sure what else I can do here, is all of this possible? Thank you in advance for any help.
I can’t do a reinstall of Win 10 on the stix nor install any 3rd-party softwares to convert them to a Linux system because of the lack of disk space. So I’m giving up on MSFT and trying to wipe all drives and re-format the file system to EXT4 and install Debian with a Deepin distro. But I still can’t get Linux on the drives because there is no space on any 32 gb stix.
I tried this using Rufus and BalenaEtcher but to no avail, so I bought a USB data transfer cable with Bravura and PCLinq5 to try and link 2 stix and remotely wipe one drive through the cable but the target C Drive does not show up under File Explorer - This PC so I can’t reformat it to install Linux Debian / Deepin. I also tried Eassos DiskGenius to remotely access the 2nd stix target C Drive but its not being recognized.
I want to do the same for the Ace box and wipe Win 11 off and go Linux but that is not crucial right now since I have 256 gb size on that drive and auto updates is turned off so the stix is the first hurdle with the box being done right afterwards if I’m successful at this. But I’m not sure what else I can do here, is all of this possible? Thank you in advance for any help.
with the Windows Updates, yes, almost impossible to stay turned off.
but what about, in your network settings, set the adapter up as a metered connection, then in Windows Updates, tell it not to download over metered connections?
but what about, in your network settings, set the adapter up as a metered connection, then in Windows Updates, tell it not to download over metered connections?
well I've never heard of that one before, and not sure how to do it, but at this point I'm done with Windows anyways. I think I want to go to Linux for the first time. I need a barebones system without all the extra bells & whistles, I don't use any of that bloatware programs at all really.
whatever Linux distro you go for, make sure it has drivers for those VivoSticks.
when I played with some distros years ago, the driver support was always my bug bear, but I hear it has improved greatly.
if you get Linux installed on to a bootable USB and plug that into the VivoStick (that'll look weird, a stick plugged into a stick!) you should then be able to install the distro onto the Vivo.
when I played with some distros years ago, the driver support was always my bug bear, but I hear it has improved greatly.
if you get Linux installed on to a bootable USB and plug that into the VivoStick (that'll look weird, a stick plugged into a stick!) you should then be able to install the distro onto the Vivo.
I'm going for the Deepin 20.8 stable distro but how do I find out if the drivers work for those ViVoStix? Regardless, I can't even make a bootable USB because I get constant errors which is the usual unlucky pattern of my life so either the USB stick has problems or I'm just cursed as usual.
When I use Rufus the device it recognizes is both the external D Drive and the E Drive for the mouse driver, it locks onto both of these drives on the same line and I can’t separate them as I fear it may overwrite some USB drivers for the mouse and make it inoperable. But I still get a failure with Rufus anyways when I tried it.
And then when going on the GParted website it says for me to first download Linux ISO the Linux Live Usb Creator then it says -“This Linux is not in the compatibility list” despite it being the latest Deepen stable version that i just downloaded off the Deepin website today, and their own Deepin Boot Installer also did not work which leads me to believe that something is wrong with my USB stick itself although it seems to be working fine when I use it.
I think I’m going to buy a new USB stick this weekend and try using that and if that still doesn’t work then I give up and bringing it to a PC store and just paying them to install Linux on these PC stix.
When I use Rufus the device it recognizes is both the external D Drive and the E Drive for the mouse driver, it locks onto both of these drives on the same line and I can’t separate them as I fear it may overwrite some USB drivers for the mouse and make it inoperable. But I still get a failure with Rufus anyways when I tried it.
And then when going on the GParted website it says for me to first download Linux ISO the Linux Live Usb Creator then it says -“This Linux is not in the compatibility list” despite it being the latest Deepen stable version that i just downloaded off the Deepin website today, and their own Deepin Boot Installer also did not work which leads me to believe that something is wrong with my USB stick itself although it seems to be working fine when I use it.
I think I’m going to buy a new USB stick this weekend and try using that and if that still doesn’t work then I give up and bringing it to a PC store and just paying them to install Linux on these PC stix.
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are Linux drivers available for Vivo? - you'll have to scour either the ASUS website or the Linus distro you will use. I see lot's of Googling in your future! 
Can't make a bootable USB? - you'll have to do that process on another PC (neighbour, family, friend, work, etc)
Can't make a bootable USB? - you'll have to do that process on another PC (neighbour, family, friend, work, etc)
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