USB stick appearing as hard disk drive, not removable storage device

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Published on 2010-03-08T17:56:51Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 18:08 UTC
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I just plugged in a very simple 1GB USB stick from the office in hopes of making it a Fedora Live USB stick. For that to work, I need a removable storage device, or else it won't appear in LiveUSB Creator's list.

Explorer lists my USB stick as a hard disk: USB stick as it appears in the Explorer

LiveUSB Creator indeed doesn't show it in the device list: LiveUSB Creator doesn't see the device

Is there any way of forcing Windows to see the stick as a removable storage device?

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