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I've found a tutorial here on how to trick the operating system to see a flash drive as a hard drive. http://www.getusb.info/usb-hack-turn-a-usb-stick-into-a-hard-drive-or-local-disk/

But I have a few questions:

  • This trick will only work on the os wherein you updated the flash drive driver. Is there a trick that will work like this one, but if you plug in the flash drive to another computer it will still be treated as hard drive?
  • How do I convert it back to a flash drive?
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Why would you want to? surely at the end of the day your just putting data on a stick – admintech May 19 '10 at 9:46
yup but its easier to partition the flash drive its treated as hard drive. – Ieyasu Sawada May 19 '10 at 22:41
Last time I checked, a flash drive is a hard drive.. – Wuffers Mar 23 '11 at 2:57
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Note: This answer is based more on the additional comment made by the OP.

You can partition a flash drive using diskpart for more information read the TechNet Diskpart Documentation Here

Example:

Run command prompt "As Administrator"

Run these commands in this order at the command prompt and replace # with your flash drives Disk # listed when you run list disk

diskpart | list disk | select disk # | clean | create partition primary size=1000 | select partition 1 | active | format fs=NTFS | assign | exit

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