The support for usb drives in particular isn t as thorough as the fire tv cube which does officially support external.
B hard drive stick.
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If you want to use the os on your hard drive in other words not the version of ubuntu you just installed on the usb drive remove the usb drive before rebooting.
So largely the reason for starting the hard drive at c is for backwards compatibility.
How to format a hard drive usb stick or ssd.
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When the usb drive is disconnected it will first try to boot from cd.
The best external hard drives will also be quick either because they use ssd solid state drive technology or because they use the latest connectivity technology such as usb c.
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The amazon fire tv stick 4k doesn t officially support connecting anything to it except amazon s fire tv ethernet adapter but using an inexpensive otg cable it s possible to use usb peripherals such as keyboards and wired gamepads as well as external usb drives.
If you want to re format an external hard drive a drive you plug.
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If there is no bootable cd in the cd rom drive it will then boot from the hard drive as normal.
By corbin davenport 07 october 2019.