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External Hard Drive being incorrectly recognized as Internal Hard Disk
I have a 3TB Seagate GoFlex External HDD. When I first got the device, it would show up as Removable Storage in My Computer where I could right click on the drive and eject it when I was done. However ...
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VMware blocked usb access from Physical Machine
The problem is I cannot access my usb stick from the real machine.
If I insert the usb and i have "Removable Devices" turned ON on my virtual machine I have full access and functionality on it. When ...
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How do I make my WD Passport USB hard drive appear as Removable rather than Fixed?
Back story: I have a WD Passport USB hard drive that I take back and forth from work every day. At both ends, we have a Windows Home Server backing up all computers. I am plagued every day by a pop ...
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How can “Install or run program from your media” be disabled?
Recently something in Windows 7 has changed such that the default action for removable drives has become Install or run program from your media instead of Open.
I checked the AutoPlay control panel ...
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How to make Picasa copy also .RAW /.NEF files but not show them
I'm using Picasa to import, manage, upload and back-up pictures. However, I do not want to see duplicates when browsing them, but I would like to copy the raw files from the cameras SD cards, looks ...
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KDE4 - possible to mount flash disks etc. on the desktop like in KDE3?
my grandfather uses a linux machine for web browsing, emails etc. So he mostly uses Firefox, Thunderbird and sometimes also Skype and now he has also Jabber account. Currently there is Pclinuxos 2009 ...
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Partitioning and safely removing compact flash cards with Windows 7
I have a set of compact flash cards with 2x NTFS partitions, which I need to work with via a USB compact flash adapter.
Windows XP and Windows 7 don't allow access to anything beyond the first ...
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Make SATA removable in Windows 7?
I have a Gigabyte P67A. I have attached one of those Thermaltake SATA docks with the eSATA connector on the dock. I have connected the dock to a regular SATA port on the board with a SATA-eSATA cable.
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Is there a robust way to vaccinate removable media against autorun.inf malware?
Where I live (Bolivia), it seems that around 2/3 of USB sticks that I encounter have malware that executes via autorun.inf and tries to infect the host machine. Most internet access here is conducted ...
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How can I manage multiple removable hard drives?
I have a desktop PC which I use to play videos and movies on my TV, as well as play music. Storage is an issue so I have the following Icy Dock hard drive cage installed which allows me to swap in ...
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few questions on making a flash drive to a hard drive
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 ...
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how to make SATA drive appear as removable drive?
Now my secondary drive shows as non-removable. (AHCI mode is set in BIOS). So, I need to make it removable.
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USB stick appearing as hard disk drive, not removable storage device
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 ...
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Linux fstab mounting
I'm trying to get fstab to auto-mount a removable device when its plugged in? Is this possible and if not what is the easiest way to auto-mount a removable device?
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What is the default mount point on Linux systems (all)?
My question is very basic in nature. Is the mount point for external media (like USB) always /media?
Because in a Debian system, if I plug in any USB device that goes to the /media folder. So is it ...
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How can I tell if Windows thinks a HDD is removable without a GUI?
I need to determine if Windows thinks that my SATA hard drives are "removable" or not. The problem is, its on a Hyper-V system, and I don't have access to the Disk Management GUI application. ...
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make drive show up as fixed rather than “removable”? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows XP, USB-Stick and multiple Partitions
Is there a way to make a usb drive show up as a fixed drive and not a removable drive?
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Removable Disk Drives Not Appearing
OS: Vista, SP1
My SD/MMC drive does not appear anywhere (MyComputer, Disk Manager). In My Computer the only available drives ar C:\, D:\ and J:. I can no longer view any removable disk drives. When I ...
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Internal SATA hard disk shows up as removable device on Windows 7
I am running Windows 7 on an Acer Aspire M7720 with three internal SATA drives; drive #2 and #3 are on a removable HDD rack.
Drive #3 (on the second removable HDD rack) shows up as removable device ...
