Filter Drivers Removable Media as Fixed Disk in Windows. Mar. 12. 20. 12. 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 by one using Bootice. Important Facts about Windows and USB Storage Devices. ECS 3Com 101001000 PCI SetPoint 4. 80 SetPoint 4. 80 Bluetooth SetPoint 4. 80 BT SetPoint 6. 00 17011503 WLAN 270SEW888 EVGA Classified SRX 3Com 10100. A simple GUI using Windows volume API to list, mount, unmount volumes. Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive for Hirens Boot CD diagnostic and recovery toolset ERD Commander replacement. Recover data, fix a damaged PC etc. Disk USB Drivers Tools. XStore Pro Windows 9xME standard EIDE Hard Disk UltraDMA EIDEATAPI CDDVD Accelerator Drivers Tools v1. 20 for most PCI. USB Flash Drives cannot be partitioned using Windows Disk Management. USB Hard Disks can be partitioned using Windows Disk Management. Third Party Tools can partition a USB Flash Drive. But all partitions will not be visible. Only the first partition will be visible. 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. In the post there is a piece about deleting all the partions during the Windows 10 install After selecting the Windows Upgrade option new install we next. Add Usb 3. 0 Drivers To Windows PermissionsAll partitions of a USB Flash Drive are visible in Linux. However a USB Flash Drive 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 Tooldiskmgmt. USB Flash Drive can be accessed simultaneously in Windows Explorer. A filter driver is a Microsoft Windows driver that adds value to peripheral devices or supports a specialized device in the personal computer. It is a driverprogrammodule that is inserted into the existing driver stack to perform some specific function. Add Usb 3. 0 Drivers To Windows PersonalizationIn this case Filter Drivers make USB Flash Drives Removable media appear as fixed drives in Windows. There are three filter drivers which can be used for this purpose. The pros and cons of each driver will be discussed. Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver cfadisk. Anton Bassov Dummydisk. Karyonix diskmod. Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver cfadisk. Video Tutorial for installing Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver. Install Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver. Download cfadisk. I have modified the cfadisk. USB Flash Drives using USBSTORGen. Disk as posted by email protectedOpen Device manager devmgmt. USB drive in Disk Drives. Right click on the entry for your drive and select option to update driver. Dont use windows update. Browse my Computer for driver software Locate and install driver software manually. Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer. Have disk. Browse to location of downloaded cfadisk. Update the driver. Your USB Flash Drive will be immediately detected as a Fixed Disk and you can then partition or access your partitions on your USB Flash Drive. Uninstall Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver. Follow steps 1 to 7. Then select Disk drive and update. Your USB Flash Drive will recognized correctly as Removable Media. It will no longer be disguised as a Fixed Drive. Features of Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver. No Restart required. Only Specific USB Flash Drive is disguised as a Fixed Drive. Other USB Flash Drives are still seen as Removable Media. Switching between Removable and Fixed modes can be done without restart by installing or uninstalling the filter driver. Tedious procedure for installation and uninstallation. Anton Bassov Dummydisk. Install Dummydisk. Download dummydisk. Run INSTALLDUMMY. Reboot the computer. Uninstall Dummydisk. Run REMOVEDUMMY. Features. Easy to install and uninstall. Disguises all USB Flash Drives as Fixed Drives. Restart is required after install or uninstall of the driver. Driver once started cannot be stopped. Switching between Removable Mode and Fixed Mode requires a reboot. Karyonix diskmod. Diskmod. sys was originally written to allow pagefile. USB Hard Disk. However its other features include disguising UFDs as HDDs and HDDs as UFDs. Install and use diskmod. Update For Windows 7 6. TESTSIGNING before installing Diskmod. Run command prompt as admin and execute this command. Bcdedit. exe set TESTSIGNING ONDownload and extract diskmod 0. Right Click on diskmod. Install. Run UFDas. HDD. bat and replug your USB Flash Drive to make it appear as Fixed Disk. Run UFDNormal. bat and replug your USB Flash Drive to make it appear normally as Removable Media. Run USBHDDas. UFD. USB Hard Disk to make it appear as Removable Media. Run USBHDDnormal. USB Hard Disk to make it appear normally as Fixed Disk. Features. USB Flash Drives can be disguised as USB HDDs. USB HDDs can be disguised as USB Flash Drives. This feature was missing in cfadisk. Easy to install. No Reboot required. Very easy to switch between Removable and Fixed modes for both USB Flash Drives and USB HDDs. You just have to change a value in the registry and replug your USB Device. All connected USB Devices are affected. Karyonixs post at reboot. USB Devices can be targetted without affecting the other connected USB Devices. However I have not been able to get that setting working. Diskmod is one of the best filter drivers available for disguising a UFD as a USB HDD or vice versa.