1. Thanks to Hitachi-driver: USB-Sticks as a hard drive to use
Windows detects your USB drive as a hard drive and not as an external removable disk, you can, for example, partitioning. The disadvantage is that Some USB-Sticks only work as a removable disk and refuse to the transformation of the service. Therefore, we show in the last paragraph, as you make the Changes back undone.
- Your USB convert Stick, you need a special modified drivers. Hitachi offers a driver for Mini-hard disks you also for your USB stick can use.
- Download the driver and unzip the ZIP file in any folder.
- Double-click on the file "cfadisk.inf", open the Text Editor. Insert at the Beginning of the section "[cfadisk_device] " the line "%Microdrive_devdesc% = cfadisk_install,USBSTOR\GenDisk" and save the document.
USB Stick as a hard drive
2. Hitachi-driver for USB-stick install
- Open the control panel and click under the category "Hardware and Sound" on the "device Manager".
- Here, you expand the entry "drive" on the little arrow next to it and click with the right mouse button on your USB-Stick. In the context menu, select the Option "update driver software".
- Click on "browse my Computer for driver software" and then "From a list of device drivers".
- Via the Button "have disk" and navigate to the newly edited INF file. You ignore both of the messages that the driver is not signed "Yes" and "install This driver software anyway".
- Connect your USB Stick to the computer, it is automatically recognized as a hard drive.
3. Transformation undo: USB-Stick as a Stick to use
If errors occur or you want to use your USB Stick back to normal, you can make the driver Installation undo
- Open the device Manager via the control panel, and then search again under "drives" to your USB-Stick.
- Then click with the right mouse button on the entry and select "Uninstall".
- After the driver has been removed, unplug your USB Stick from the computer and plug it back in. Windows automatically installed a new driver and mount the drive as a removable disk.
As you on your USB Stick with multiple operating systems to install, we can tell you in the next article. This practical tip is based on Windows 7.
