How to Make Flash Drive a Local Disk

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Tip 1 - How to Make Flash Drive a Local Disk | eHow

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Catherine Jensen | permalink

The flash drive or USB drive is usually used as a removable disk in your computer. It is used mainly for data transfer between two computers. However, it can also be added to your local drives and used like a partition in your hard drive. This can be useful if you are running out of space in your hard disk. The flash drive can also be partitioned...

For further reading: http://www.ehow.com/how_5941768_make-flash-drive-local-disk.html ^[1]

Tip 2 - Making "removable disk"s into "local disk"s - External Hardware

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Gilberto Faria | permalink

Making "removable disk"s into "local disk"s - posted in External Hardware: SanDisk used to sell very good 64 gigabyte USB flash drives, when i plugged them inot my windows 8 64 bit laptop computer they registered as Local Disks, and appeared in the top line on the my computer page in the file explorer, alongside my hard drive partitions C:\ and D:\ . Now however i find i am plugging in NEW USB drives and thye are registering as Removable Disks, on the my computer page in th...
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For further reading: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/558306/making-removable-disks-into-local-disks/ ^[2]

Tip 3 - USB Flash Drive showing up as LOCAL DISK

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Amy Lai | permalink

I have purchased several SanDisk USB Flash Drives and this is the first one that shows up as a LOCAL DISK (and not as a REMOVABLE DISK). When I attempt to copy a file to the drive in Windows Media Player (Windows 7) the "Start syc" option is grayed out and I am unable to copy to the USB Flash Drive...
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For further reading: http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/All-SanDisk-USB-Flash-Drives/USB-Flash-Drive-showing-up-as-LOCAL-DISK/td-p/309565 ^[3]

Tip 4 - Converting USB Removable To Fixed Disk (BCDedit Menu List) - Windows 7

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Chu Kevin | permalink

Page 1 of 2 - Converting USB Removable To Fixed Disk (BCDedit Menu List) - posted in Windows 7: BOOTING WINDOWS 7/VISTA/8/8.1 x86/x64 from USB-STICKLatest work posted on Post # 8 of this thread Im creating this post in a separate thread from the NT 6.x Fast Installer to address the issue after a successful installation of Windows to a USB.After Installing Windows7 64Bit to a 7.46 GB USB (I know I only have 300 MB free in the USB drive after Installation but I had not choice as that is...
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For further reading: http://reboot.pro/topic/10534-converting-usb-removable-to-fixed-disk-bcdedit-menu-list/ ^[4]