So, I want to use my USB drive on a windows 10 guest virtual machine running on a windows 11 dev channel host. I'm using Hyper-V as the virtual machine manager, and to access the drive on the guest system, I need to be able to offline the disk. I have tried just routing it through, but this doesn't allow the device to be viewed as a drive, but rather as a folder located at \\tsclient\G. Using the subst command in PowerShell allows be to cd to the device as a drive letter, but the windows explorer Windows can't find 'z:/' . I have tried installing VirtualBox, which allows you to directly mount the USB to the VM without offlining the disk, but it fails to install. I have also tried using the old Lexar BootIt tool, but that fails to work either. Is there any way that still works to flip the removable bit, or edit the registry to make offlining a removable drive possible, or is it just another problem lost to time.
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https://superuser.com/questions/391176/flipping-the-removable-media-bit-alternatives-to-bootit – Gantendo Mar 08 '22 at 21:01
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I saw this, but my antivirus flagged Chipgenius as malware – Fort-P Mar 08 '22 at 21:05
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It says " (Alternatively use Nirsoft's USBDeview to get the drive's VID and PID)" – Gantendo Mar 08 '22 at 21:08
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If there are no MP tools for my usb do you have another Idea? – Fort-P Mar 09 '22 at 14:40
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Using a different USB flash drive? – Gantendo Mar 09 '22 at 19:00
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oh well, hank then – Fort-P Mar 09 '22 at 22:36
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Does it have to be a USB flash drive? Or would a/another virtual hard drive also be acceptable? – Daniel B Jul 12 '22 at 06:40
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I'm trying to do the same thing. One single bit can cause so much frustration.
Apparently there is a alternative USB driver, but it's unsigned, Removable USB Flash Drive as Local HDD in Windows 10 / 7.
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Yep, I ended up finding this, and it worked for what I needed, though I do caution you, everytime I turned on the computer with it installed, it would fail to boot, and I would have to go through the advanced boot section to "disable driver signing", so I recommend swapping it back to the default driver once you are done, as it can be a pain when you just want to turn on your computer. Thanks though! – Fort-P Jul 13 '22 at 19:31