The pros and cons of each driver will be discussed. Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver cfadisk. Anton Bassov Dummydisk. Karyonix diskmod. Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver cfadisk. Video Tutorial for installing Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver. Install Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver. Driver Usbstor Download' title='Driver Usbstor Download' />Download cfadisk. I have modified the cfadisk. USB Flash Drives using USBSTORGen. Disk as posted by email protectedOpen Device manager devmgmt. USB drive in Disk Drives. Right click on the entry for your drive and select option to update driver. Dont use windows update. Browse my Computer for driver software Locate and install driver software manually. Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer. Have disk. Browse to location of downloaded cfadisk. Update the driver. Your USB Flash Drive will be immediately detected as a Fixed Disk and you can then partition or access your partitions on your USB Flash Drive. Uninstall Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver. Follow steps 1 to 7. Then select Disk drive and update. Your USB Flash Drive will recognized correctly as Removable Media. It will no longer be disguised as a Fixed Drive. Features of Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver. No Restart required. Only Specific USB Flash Drive is disguised as a Fixed Drive. Other USB Flash Drives are still seen as Removable Media. Switching between Removable and Fixed modes can be done without restart by installing or uninstalling the filter driver. Tedious procedure for installation and uninstallation. Anton Bassov Dummydisk. Install Dummydisk. Download dummydisk. Run INSTALLDUMMY. Reboot the computer. Uninstall Dummydisk. Run REMOVEDUMMY. Features. Easy to install and uninstall. Disguises all USB Flash Drives as Fixed Drives. Restart is required after install or uninstall of the driver. Driver once started cannot be stopped. Switching between Removable Mode and Fixed Mode requires a reboot. Karyonix diskmod. Diskmod. sys was originally written to allow pagefile. USB Hard Disk. However its other features include disguising UFDs as HDDs and HDDs as UFDs. Install and use diskmod. Update For Windows 7 6. TESTSIGNING before installing Diskmod. Run command prompt as admin and execute this command. Bcdedit. exe set TESTSIGNING ONDownload and extract diskmod 0. Right Click on diskmod. Install. Run UFDas. HDD. bat and replug your USB Flash Drive to make it appear as Fixed Disk. Run UFDNormal. bat and replug your USB Flash Drive to make it appear normally as Removable Media. Run USBHDDas. UFD. USB Hard Disk to make it appear as Removable Media. Run USBHDDnormal. USB Hard Disk to make it appear normally as Fixed Disk. Features. USB Flash Drives can be disguised as USB HDDs. USB HDDs can be disguised as USB Flash Drives. This feature was missing in cfadisk. Easy to install. No Reboot required. Very easy to switch between Removable and Fixed modes for both USB Flash Drives and USB HDDs. You just have to change a value in the registry and replug your USB Device. All connected USB Devices are affected. Karyonixs post at reboot. USB Devices can be targetted without affecting the other connected USB Devices. However I have not been able to get that setting working. Diskmod is one of the best filter drivers available for disguising a UFD as a USB HDD or vice versa. Event Log Error 4. HDD during install. Hi, Ken. Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. I understand the issue that you are facing currently, and we in Community will try to resolve your issue the best way we can. As per your query there are two possible issue with your Western Drive 1. The HDD drive has to be updated. The hard drive has not been allocated in disk management. I suggest that you follow the steps below and check if you can resolve the issue. Step 1 1. Open Run Command Windows button R, a dialog box will open type diskmgmt. Disk management window will open, check if there is a yellow exclamation mark besides the HDD drive. If so I would suggest that you update the driver through the WD website. If you do not locate the yellow exclamation mark follow the step below. Step 2 In the same disk management window, check if the HDD drive has been namedallocated. If not follow the steps below 1. Right click it on the HDD and select New Volume. This will open a Setup Wizard. Click on the on screen instruction and select and allocate a name for the drive. Restart your system and check if the issue persist. Your reply is very important for us to ensure a proper resolution. Concord 80 Plus Furnace Manual. Please get back to us with the above information in order to assist you accordingly.