On Monday 04 November 2013 11:00:06 intrigeri wrote: > Various USB sticks (especially Sandisk) these days expose themselves > as non-removable (which is actually a correct interpretation of the > specs). This may be related. > > https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/#problematic-usb-sticks Found some relevant links: http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/All-SanDisk-USB-Flash-Drives/Change-Sandisk-Extreme-USB-3-0-usb-drive-to-removable-drive/td-p/296509 http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/All-SanDisk-USB-Flash-Drives/Sandisk-Extreme-64GB-make-it-a-fixed-drive/m-p/295978/highlight/true#M5242 IOW: the fixed disk is caused by win 8 certification and it's baked into the firmware and (apparently) no tool will be released to make into removable. HTH, Diederik -- GPG: 0x138E41915C7EFED6
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