Windows 10: Will running Windows 10 on a USB flash drive, damage and quickly wear out the USB drive?

Is it safe for the USB drive to run Windows 10 on it? As far as I know, Windows causes a lot of writing and erasing, indicating Windows will quickly use up all the write/erase cycles of the USB. Is this true? If yes, why doesn't it happen to SSDs, too? If USB drives have flash controllers, won't that controller be able to protect the USB drive, in the same way, it can protect SSDs from losing their write/erase cycles?

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Installing Windows 7 via USB flash drive!

USB drive doesnt show up, even after a format through windows (XP)

Any suggestions?

 

Partition a USB Flash Drive

This is the scary stuff that happens when you use Google:

'USB flash drives cannot be partitioned in the Windows operating if the drive is identified as removable media. The only way to partition the USB flash drive is to flip the removable bit so that it is recognized as fixed media instead which can be partitioned like any normal hard drive'

Infoz/Appz:
http://www.lancelhoff.com/multi-partition-a-usb-flash-drive-in-windows/

Partition USB Flash Drives - gHacks Tech News

I got that from searching for 'partition flash drive'.

I should get paid for this.

 

help. USB drive isn't assigned a drive letter.

Any usb flash drive I plug into my computer isn't assigned a drive letter. The physical drive shows in the "safely remove hardware" but it doesnt show up in disk management. I have tried to populate the volume thru the safely remove hardware properties window and it does pop up in the list but it doesn't stay there. This isn't a format or assign a letter problem. It's more complicated then that. Maybe one of the services needed for usb drive management was disabled? Suggestions needed. btw external usb harddrives work fine.