How to make flash drive a local disk

The task of transforming a removable USB drive to hard drive becomes relevant when trying to create a bootable USB drive to use the tool Diskpart. This usually happens if you need to install Windows version 7 from version XP. The solution to the selected problem lies in the use driver mini hard drive Hitachi Microdrive.

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You will need

Driver Hitachi Microdrive.

Instruction

The reason for non-display utility Diskpart removable USB device is the presence on each media special handle Removable Media Bit responsible for the identification of the drive as a removable device operating system of your computer. Therefore, removal of descriptor RMB will display a USB drive as hard drive.

Download and unzip the archive of Hitachi drivers in any temporary directory. Use installed app a text editor to open the file cfadisk.inf and define the string with the value%Microdrive_devdesc% = cfadisk_install,USBSTORDISK&VEN_JetFlash&Prod_TS1GJF168&REV_0.00A7B03577C3F1B5&0.

Connect your USB device to the computer via the port and bring up the main system menu by pressing the "start" button. Go to the Run dialog and enter the value devmgmt.msc in the Open box. Authorize the tool to start "device Manager" by pressing the " OK " button, expand "Disk drives".

Open the context menu of your drive click the right mouse button and select "Properties". Use the Details tab of the resulting window to determine the instance ID of the device and copy the value to clipboard, simultaneously press the function keys Ctrl+C.

Replace the value of USBSTOR... in the file cfadisk.inf saved code. Define a string with the value Microdrive_devdesc = ... group of Strings and replace it with any other.

Bring up the shortcut menu for your USB stick and point the "Update driver". Apply check boxes in the fields "No, not this time" in the first window of the wizard, "install from a list or specific location" - in the second and "don't search" - in the third.

Use the option "have disk" and specify the folder of the file cfadisk.inf in the next window, click "Browse". Confirm your choice in the request window system and disconnect the flash drive. Reconnect the created disc and run the format procedure.

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