USB stick appearing as hard disk drive, not removable storage device
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Mar 15, 202674322 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I just plugged in a very simple 1GB USB stick from the office in hopes of making it a Fedora Live USB stick. For that to work, I need a removable storage device, or else it won't appear in LiveUSB Creator's list. Explorer lists my USB stick as a hard disk: LiveUSB Creator indeed doesn't show it in …
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Fix for: USB stick appearing as hard disk drive, not removable storage device
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The problem, appears, is not Windows but the device itself. For some reason, the device is registering itself as a Mass Storage device, not a Removable Storage device. A nifty program I found via this blog entry called BootIt solved the problem for …
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