How to make windows recognize usb drives (sd cards) as local hard drives
Nowadays you can buy huge usb drives / sd(hc) cards on the market. 16gb sd cards are selling around USD 30-40 right now - and I imagine it’s the same for usb drives. The theoretical max. of an sdhc card is 32 gb which is enough for a lot of purposes.
Lots of laptop and consumer devices have an sd card slot as well. If you use one such card / usb drive for your computer you might want to partition it for several reasons (just imagine dual booting linux / windows from an sd card - possible! see my previous post on how to make xp boot from an usb drive - it’s very much the same with an sd card as well).
So to the point. The problem with windows (xp) is that if it recognizes a device that is connected as removable (usb hard drive, sd card, etc.) then it will only allow you to format / have one partition on it. This is enough for a lot of users (e.g you use the card in your camera).
Windows also does not allow you to see more than one partition from a removable drive - even if you have partitioned it to 2 or more sections with linux (gparted) or mac os x ( via the built in disk utility).
The problem is that windows only allocates a drive letter to the first partition found on a removable drive - and the rest is just not accessible.
How to solve this problem?
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