how to make a USB drive appear as SATA?

[tommo123]

apparently if you encrypt the drive and mount it via truecrypt then it looks like a local drive - not external (only found this out today). is there a way of doing this without encrypting the drive?

 

[Nothinman]

It appears that way because TrueCrypt is using a virtual driver to make the encrypted image look like a drive and they chose to make it non-removable. It doesn't change how the OS sees the USB drive itself. In order to do that for a standard drive you would need a separate device driver to supplant the OS's usb-storage driver and present its drives as non-removable.

 

[tommo123]

it's other software i needed to fool - not windows itself really. truecrypt does the trick but i'd rather not have this drive encrypted.

i might just throw it back in but i'd have to have a pci-e sata card though

 

[Nothinman]

But what I'm saying is that it's the Windows driver that's marking the device as removable. So in order to fix that you need a specialized driver that doesn't set that bit, feature, etc. for the drive.

Occasionally you can trick software with NTFS mount points because they're not smart enough to determine the selected directory isn't really a part of the root drive letter's device.

 

[tommo123]

hmm, save me messing around i've just bought a sata card (2 port). can throw my drive in and also my SSD for constant use stuff (which i think is wearing down my drives a little).

ta for the info NM. never thought about the driver.

p.s it was carbonite (online backup software) i wanted to try and fool (did it without realising with truecrypt).