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As the title says: I want to make Windows think that my USB drive is a fixed local drive. Is it possible?

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Do you just want to make sure the USB drive has a permanent drive letter? – Pulse Jul 8 '10 at 13:53
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It's possible on some disks. Basically, there a setting in drive's firmware which windows uses to detect if it's fixed or mobile. Here's a program which is supposed to be able to change the setting:
http://www.getusb.info/flip-your-bit-usb-utility-to-make-local-drive/
Program is Lexar's Bootit and it's reported to work on other flash drives.

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Read here the 4th paragraph.

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What happens when that site is down/offline/gone? – random♦ Jul 9 '10 at 0:46
Well.. the planet will be doomed. I can't copy the answer, cause there is a table form over there. – Matan Eldan Jul 9 '10 at 12:46
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