Windows 10: USB drive now shown as Basic hard disk

Discus and support USB drive now shown as Basic hard disk in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Yes this is really strange. Furthermore we can put this discussion to an end, since I returned the SanDisk Curzer Glide flash drive this morning to... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by tracit99, May 2, 2017.

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  1. SIMRICK
    simrick Win User

    USB drive now shown as Basic hard disk


    *Thumbs Cheers!
     
    simrick, May 4, 2017
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  2. CEREBERUS
    cereberus Win User

    I would have kept the drive - then you could use it as true Windows to Go drive assuming it had the capacity.
     
    cereberus, May 4, 2017
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  3. TRACIT99
    tracit99 Win User
    @cereberus
    Good point and I thought about that. In the end my OCD won out. OCD say USB flash drive must show up as Removable.
     
    tracit99, May 4, 2017
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  4. CEREBERUS
    cereberus Win User

    USB drive now shown as Basic hard disk

    But you can do so much more with it having fixed disk status!
     
    cereberus, Apr 5, 2018
    #19
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