I just bought this drive to use as the main USB drive for the unraid program.

 

It won't work. It installs as a drive, and is not eject able. Nothing I could do would change it.

 

This under Windows 8. While I could not find a solution I found several who had the same complaint.

 

You will know when you run the make bootable file that comes in the unraid package. It will fail and say drive is not removable. Then, if you try to use it as your boot drive it won't work to boot your unraid box.

 

I mention this only because the this drive is mentioned on the 'good quality' flash drive short list on the Lime Tech  server installation page.

 

Hope it helps someone make the same two hour mistake I did.

Edit make_bootable

 

Change -ma to -maf

 

 

Please explain. I could not make boot able, and the drive could not be mounted as removable.

 

I spent two hours researching it. No way.... possible.

It is a Windows 8 issue and how they treat flash drives, the 'Windows to Go' function that some flash manufacturers that state "Windows 8 compatible" are doing - treats the flash as a fixed device instead of removable.  Suggest using a different OS to prepare the flash or use a flash device that does not state 'Windows 8 compatible'.

It is a Windows 8 issue and how they treat flash drives, the 'Windows to Go' function that some flash manufacturers that state "Windows 8 compatible" are doing - treats the flash as a fixed device instead of removable.  Suggest using a different OS to prepare the flash or use a flash device that does not state 'Windows 8 compatible'.

 

Exactly! Sorry I did not elaborate further.

adding "f" to the switches in the make_bootable.bat file will FORCE it to use the device, regardless if its considered removable or not. I had to do this on mine on Win7.

adding "f" to the switches in the make_bootable.bat file will FORCE it to use the device, regardless if its considered removable or not. I had to do this on mine on Win7.

 

How do you do that? I tried after clicking run as admin, but any key I pressed just closed the window.

adding "f" to the switches in the make_bootable.bat file will FORCE it to use the device, regardless if its considered removable or not. I had to do this on mine on Win7.

 

How do you do that? I tried after clicking run as admin, but any key I pressed just closed the window.

Edit the .bat file with a text editor in windows or linux and add the "f" to the command that is executed.

 

Specifically change this "%~d0\syslinux -ma %~d0" to "%~d0\syslinux -maf %~d0" in make_bootable.bat.

 

Edit:  Make sure you do it to the command if you edit the line above you are only changing the echo.  Or change both the line that starts with "echo" as well as the line below it that doesn't have the "echo" - made that mistake before.

Thanks.

 

Good for others to know. I ended up taking mine back and now use two 8GB minis. One for main boot and one for backup.

 

 

It's very interesting to me.

 

I just want to say thanks again to those who chimed in with the info to change the -ma to -maf.

 

I finally got around to upgrading and with that came the need for a SD card that would not boot without those modifications.

 

Thanks again!!