USB Flash Drives are seen as Removable Media and USB Hard Disks are seen as fixed drives in Windows. Due to this USB Flash Drives cannot be partitioned using the inbuilt Disk Management Utility. Also all the partitions of a partitioned USB Flash Drive cannot be accessed simultaneously.However they can be partitioned and accessed one …
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As discussed in a previous topic, Here is a filter driver which can be used for this purpose. Diskmod is one of the best filter drivers available for disguising a UFD as a USB HDD or vice versa. Diskmod.sys was originally written to allow pagefile.sys to reside in a USB Hard Disk.However its other features include disguising …
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As discussed in a previous topic, Here is a filter driver which can be used for this purpose. USB Flash Drives can be disguised as a USB Hard Disk using Filter drivers.This way a USB Flash Drive can be partitioned using the inbuilt Disk Management Tool(diskmgmt.msc) and all the partitions of the USB Flash Drive can be …
How to : Make your USB a Fixed Disk with Dummydisk (Anton Bassov) Read More »
As discussed in a previous topic, Here is a filter driver which can be used for this purpose. I – Install Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver Download cfadisk.zip. Open Device manager (devmgmt.msc) and check for your USB drive in “Disk Drives”. Right click on the entry for your drive and select option to update driver. Don’t use …
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One really cool feature in Linux distros as well as Mac is that they automatically display any plugged-in removable media on the desktop. This is a rather handy feature as it saves you the trouble of opening up (My)Computer . Desktop Media is a freeware which brings this feature to Windows. It works with all …
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