How to stop windows 7 from asking to format a disk?

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Published on 2010-09-11T02:53:41Z Indexed on 2010/12/23 10:55 UTC
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Hey guys,

I have this USB flash drive with a Linux partition that I use inside VirtualBox.

Each time I insert it into the USB port, windows keeps asking if it should format it.

Is there anyway to disable Windows from asking that?

Thanks.

EDIT: Disabling auto-run has not resolved the problem unfortunately. Windows will still check if the disk contains a partition it knows about, and ask to format if it doesn't know it.

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Really nice try though, any other ideas?

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