Is there a way to mount an external hard drive as a USB Flash Drive?

Question

In order to avoid paying for an extra feature on a backup software, I need to mound my external hard drive as a USB Flash Drive. Windows automaticlly recognizes external hard drive as "Hard Drives" on My Computer. However, flash drives are recognized as "Devices with removeable storage". I need to mount my 3TB hard drive as a "Device with removable storage".

I am using Windows 7 Pro. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use Filter Drivers to change functionally Removable Media as Fixed Disk (or vice versa) in Windows.

See http://agnipulse.com/2012/03/filter-drivers-removable-media-fixed-disk-windows

The appropriate driver for your case is diskmod.sys and using USBHDDasUFD.bat