How to turn removable storage into fixed and vice versa?

Question

Iron

Fixed and removable drives in different operating systems have different capabilities. For example, many formatting / creating boot drives / backups only work with removable devices. Removable devices can be removed directly from Windows Explorer or the Linux file manager. How can I convert one drive type to another? How does the OS even recognize that the device is removable? It seems that this is determined by the 7th bit of the first block, in Windows it seems to be possible to change it using the Bootit utility or by dropping the driver (only removable -> fixed), but it seems to be not very reliable, how to do it under linux - I can’t imagine .

Answer 1

how to do it under linux

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/125961/ho...

Answer 2

In the case of an external HDD, I reverse-engineered and patched the firmware of the SATA-USB adapter so that a SCSI_INQUIRY request would return a response with the Removable bit set.

Answer 3

Some flash drives have the ability to change the mode through the service utility for firmware. depends on the controller. You can search on the well-known flash drive repair site.
There is a way to replace the driver in Windows, this will only work on a specific computer, although if you need to deceive some program that, for example, does not allow you to save files to a USB flash drive, then you can get confused.
Ordinary sata drives can be turned off without making them removable media, for convenience, you can take a program like USB Safely Remove, it can turn off both flash drives and drives (at the same time it shows who does not let you turn off the drive).
It is convenient if the computer has a quick-release tray for disks. But here it is necessary to check. some drivers/chipsets don't like this and crash into a blue screen.
For any boot purposes, you should take Rufus and do whatever you need with the flash drive.