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| Thread ID: 74480 | 2006-11-24 08:00:00 | Can you make a HDD look like a flash drive? | joe_exception (2874) | Press F1 |
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| 501761 | 2006-11-26 06:04:00 | Ok, bit more looking into this and it doesn't appear that (at least with the hardware I've used) this is possible. Apparently Windows must recognise a difference between a 'removable' disk (flash drive) and HDD as no paging data is written to a removable disk. This means that when vendors create external HDD housings, in order to conform to USB specifications for USB booting etc, they must report themselves as a HDD (regardless of the formatting of data). I've got 2 different HDD enclosures which both work the same way. www.microsoft.com It seems that this is what's causing my issue - although I'd be interested to see how wide this problem is. If anyone has other consumer electronics equipment with a USB interface (Sony and Philips TVs, Pioneer DVD recorders, JVC car audio etc) it might be interesting to experiment and see if they work with external HDDs or just flash memory... |
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| 501762 | 2006-11-27 05:56:00 | All USB connected drives will be USB mass storage devices (except for old, weird ones). Your problem is almost certainly that the media system supports only FAT16 and not FAT32. There is no reason why this media centre should be designed to care what type of mass storage device you connect. | TGoddard (7263) | ||
| 501763 | 2006-11-27 06:43:00 | I know that all external HDD cases that are USB are not created equal. I am a Linux user with quitre an old DSE external USB1 case that works fine with Linux. I was under the impression that (like most devices), all external USB cases would use block USB - I purchased a modern case that refused to work with Fedora Core 5 (presumably since it used a proprietory interface). | johnd (85) | ||
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