Guest removable Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 I have a number of external (USB + firewire) hard disk. When attached, the os reports them as fixed drives. I prefer them to be removable. Is there any way I can do this?
Guest Uwe Sieber Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Re: Mounting external hard disk as "removable" removable wrote: > I have a number of external (USB + firewire) hard disk. When attached, > the os reports them as fixed drives. I prefer them to be removable. Is > there any way I can do this? No, this decision is made by the device having the 'removable media bit' (RMB) set or not. It could be changed by a filter driver but there is no 'ready to use' product for this. A proof of concept driver for the opposite direction has been published by Anton Bassov: http://www.codeproject.com/system/soviet_direct_hooking.asp Uwe
Guest removable Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Re: Mounting external hard disk as "removable" On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:10:36 +0200, Uwe Sieber wrote: >removable wrote: >> I have a number of external (USB + firewire) hard disk. When attached, >> the os reports them as fixed drives. I prefer them to be removable. Is >> there any way I can do this? > >No, this decision is made by the device having the 'removable >media bit' (RMB) set or not. It could be changed by a filter >driver but there is no 'ready to use' product for this. The main problem with having a "fixed" drive is the compulsory recycle bin. For my external drives I don't want a recycle bin. Is there any way of doing this (while at the same time retaining the facility for internal drives)? At the same time, it would also be handy if I could mount some external drives as "read-only" - is there any way of doing that?
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