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How can I make a USB flash drive appear/not appear as a CD drive? I recently was given a small USB flash drive as an advertising gimmick. When I plug it in, only one drive appears: a CD drive with 42kb used (just an autorun.inf file which launches the manufacturer's website). I know U3 drives also appear as CD drives... Started by mmyers on Saturday, January 10, 2009, 7 posts by 7 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Ok, there is 2 questions here : 1) How can I make it appear as a USB driveThis is probably due to the drivers.... Try plugging it into a Linux box to see if you can get more direct access to the hardware. For the removable storage drive.

Can you clone a larger drive onto a smaller drive (used space fits on the smaller) I have a 500GB drive which is about 50GB full, I got a 80GB SSD, which has 74.5GB of available space. I want to clone the system drive onto the SSD. DriveImage XML will not let me copy a larger drive to a smaller one. Started by on Friday, February 26, 2010, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): However, if the drive is a Vista boot drive using NTFS, you will have to use your Windows Install.... Symanted Ghost 2003 will clone larger drives to smaller drives if the data will fit. drive and let it work its magic.

In PowerShell, how can I determine the root of a drive (supposing it's a networked drive) In PowerShell, even if it's possible to know if a drive is a network drive: see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/158359/in-powershell-how-can-i-determine-if-the-current-drive-is-a-networked-drive-or When I try to get the "root" of the drive, I get back... Started by JJarava on Wednesday, October 01, 2008, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): :'" $drive = gwmi win32_logicaldisk -filter "DeviceID='H:'" if($drive.DriveType -eq 4) {write-host "drive.

Dell 2950 with Perc Controller, can I swap my SAS drives for SATA drives? Hi all, I'm struggling to find any documentation on this, I know the Dell PowerEdge 2950 supports both SAS and SATA drives but I'm not sure if I need to anything to swap them over, do I need new caddies for example. Can I just swap the drives? Many thanks... Started by Steve Lee on Friday, August 07, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): I had the same question. You can just swap them. Yes... There are exceptions, but they're done so many times, although on 1950's . As a general rule, wherever you have SAS drives you can use SATA.

After downloading Ubuntu.img to external drive can I set computer to boot from that drive? I'm in the process of downloading ubuntu netbook remix onto an external drive. After it's downloaded do I need to do anything to the .img file before I set the computer to boot from that drive? Will the computer automatically know what to do with the ... Started by lipton on Thursday, September 17, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Is called this bootable usb drive.... There's a great project for this. You should create a bootable usb drive. You can simply load that img file into a virtual drive and run it, Ubuntu can setupAFAIK, no. Alternative.

How can I extract the drive letter for a new mapped drive in a .bat? I'm creating a simple command-line backup script to use robocopy to mirror "important" stuff to my NAS box. I would prefer not to rely on a hard-coded mapped drive letter for that NAS box. In the script I would like to map a temporary drive letter, copy... Started by JMD on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): C:\Users\Snark>pushd /? Stores the PUSHD command accepts network paths in ... . Pushd \\server\share will create a temporary drive (starting will delete the temporary drive and get you back where you were. Use the commands pushd and popd.

In PowerShell, how can I determine if the current drive is a networked drive or not? I need to know, from within Powershell, if the current drive is a mapped drive or not. Unfortunately, Get-PSDrive is not working "as expected": PS:24 H:\temp >get-psdrive h Name Provider Root CurrentLocation ---- ---- H FileSystem H:\ temp but in MS... Started by JJarava on Wednesday, October 01, 2008, 7 posts by 7 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Values 0 - Unknown 1 - No Root Directory 2 - Removable Disk 3 - Local Disk 4 - Network Drive 5 - Compact.

Writing an OS for Motorola 68K processor. Can I emulate it? And can I test-drive OS development? Next term, I'll need to write a basic operating system for Motorola 68K processor as part of a course lab material. Is there a Linux emulator of a basic hardware setup with that processor? So my partners and I can debug quicker on our computers instead... Started by ulver on Monday, October 12, 2009, 6 posts by 6 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): You can then write well over 90.... Getch() and printf, then you can provide simple mocks that provide test input and check output. First off decouple all accesses to the hardware with simple routine calls, e.g . can tdd this project.

How can I determine the space/size of my drive programatically? Both in LInux and on Windows. That is : How can I check the drive size which is not formatted... Don't consider the formatted drives...just unformatted drive. Started by Macroideal on Friday, December 25, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): You can use DeviceIoControl.... For windows.. Or, if you can open the raw device file, you can use the BLKGETSIZE ioctl . To find the size/partitions. Under Linux, if you want the size of the entire drive, read /sys/block/sda/size .

How can I identify which of my usb drives can be made bootable I know that not all usb sticks are the same. Some can be booted from, some cant. How can I identify which ones are able to do this? (without trying each one) Started by Uberfuzzy on Thursday, August 06, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Now everything can boot from usbI think it is not so much a.... This can help the bootability of the USB (I think booting, so some could patch things to look like a bootable cd drive. To make it look like an actual disk drive.