Merging USB drives

[Julian5]

I have tried several options but none work, I am trying to merge a 64gb USB stick and a 16gb USB stick to install GTA 5 (66gb lol). windows disk manager does not allow merging removable hard drives, is there any way to trick the pc into thinking the drives are non - removable?

[forthe48]

You'll want to look into doing something called "flipping the removable bit" on your flash drives. Some can do it, some don't. I believe HP makes a utility that can flip the removable bit for most drives.

 

There seems to be some good discussion here - http://superuser.com/questions/391176/flipping-the-removable-media-bit-alternatives-to-bootit

[Julian5]

28 minutes ago, forthe48 said:

You'll want to look into doing something called "flipping the removable bit" on your flash drives. Some can do it, some don't. I believe HP makes a utility that can flip the removable bit for most drives.

 

There seems to be some good discussion here - http://superuser.com/questions/391176/flipping-the-removable-media-bit-alternatives-to-bootit

Well, I messed around with some drivers,  deactivated digitally signed drivers and got the local disk working and my PC wont start windows 7 now, any clues on what to do apart from safe mode?

[forthe48]

3 minutes ago, Julian5 said:

Well, I messed around with some drivers,  deactivated digitally signed drivers and got the local disk working and my PC wont start windows 7 now, any clues on what to do apart from safe mode?

 

So you got the flash drives working as non-removable, and now your normal Windows 7 install won't boot? Sorry, I'm not entirely understanding what you mean.

 

The only thing I can think of is check your BIOS, make sure the PC isn't trying to boot from your flash drives now.

 

Remove the flash drives, see if the PC boots then.

 

Sounds like you might have uninstalled a driver for something sorta important, you may have to borrow another computer to get drivers onto your flash drive and re-install them in safe mode.

[Julian5]

1 minute ago, forthe48 said:

 

So you got the flash drives working as non-removable, and now your normal Windows 7 install won't boot? Sorry, I'm not entirely understanding what you mean.

 

The only thing I can think of is check your BIOS, make sure the PC isn't trying to boot from your flash drives now.

 

Remove the flash drives, see if the PC boots then.

 

Sounds like you might have uninstalled a driver for something sorta important, you may have to borrow another computer to get drivers onto your flash drive and re-install them in safe mode.

I had  unisntalled some drivers but everything was working, I rebooted and it didnt work so I removed the usb sticks. I just get the windows repair thing.

[forthe48]

Sounds like you removed drivers for something important, or something else went wrong. Let Windows repair see if it can fix anything, and if not try to re-add drivers through safe mode.

[Julian5]

1 minute ago, forthe48 said:

Sounds like you removed drivers for something important, or something else went wrong. Let Windows repair see if it can fix anything, and if not try to re-add drivers through safe mode.

Windows repair says it cant fix it and gives me a bunch of error codes, even blue screened once. Imma try safe mode later its 11.50 in spain rn

[Julian5]

15 hours ago, forthe48 said:

Sounds like you removed drivers for something important, or something else went wrong. Let Windows repair see if it can fix anything, and if not try to re-add drivers through safe mode.

booted with digital signatures deactivated and it worked now imma re install mobo drivers and update my windows