USB Flash Drive showing up as LOCAL DISK

@ed_p wrote:

Your Rufus sounds like an interesting app but, according to your link, with an unusual requirement.

 

“you need to work on a system that doesn’t have an OS installed”

 

 

I believe this refers to the popular use of installing an OS on your flash drive.  My computer is Windows, but I have an Apple OS X bootable image that I run inside of Windows.  It’s easier to keep OS X on a flash drive instead of within the Windows system folders, and if it’s on the flash drive you can even use it on computers without an OS.

I’m having the same fixed drive issue, but I don’t need it to be removable.  I’m only using it as portable storage.  I’ll just have to learn to sleep well knowing I won’t “Safely Remove Hardware”