Hitachi Microdrive version for 32-bit systems – Hitachi Microdrive x86 (2.9 Kb).
As a result, the system assumes that it works with a usual hard disk, which can be split into several partitions available in the system simultaneously. Using this driver, you can hide from the system that the connected device is removable. We will use a filter driver for USB flash drives by Hitachi ( Hitachi Microdrive driver), which allows to change the USB device type from removable to fixed (USB-ZIP -> USB-HDD) at the OS driver level. To mount a USB flash drive or an SD card as a hard drive, you need a special filter driver, which allows you to modify data sent via the system stack of the current device driver. Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver for USB Flash Drives In the event that the BootIt utility did not help to change the RMB bit on a removable drive, try the following method based on the Hitachi Microdrive filter driver. Using Device Manager, make sure that its type has changed from Removable to Basic.
The BootIt utility supports all versions of Windows, starting from Windows XP and finishing with Windows 10. Despite the fact that the utility Lexar BootIt is developed only for Lexar devices (Micron, Crucial), it can work with flash drives from other manufacturers.
This is a free portable program that can change the RMB of a removable drive and make a removable USB device fixed (or vice versa). Recently I got a pretty interesting tool – Lexar BootIt. Although both of these methods are quite old and I originally tested them in Windows 7, they continue to be relevant and work equally well in modern Windows 10. In this article we’ll take look at two ways to change the RMB bit on a USB stick: using the Hitachi filter driver (changes are made only at a specific computer on the driver level) and changing the removable bit in the controller firmware using the BootIt utility from Lexar (more universal way, but there is a number of restrictions and is not applicable to all models of USB flash drives and SD cards). Or using the diskpart command: diskpart list volume
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