USB drive now shown as Basic hard disk

Just to be certain, are you sure it was originally a removable drive because San Disk manufactured several USB drives as Local Disks in error. Here is one of them:



So, what is the make/model number of the drive in question?

Ok, I just wanted to make sure you weren't a victim of the San Disk manufacturing error (like I was). Unfortunately, I cannot provide a proven way to switch that local/removable bit back to removable and I am surprised that WintoFlash actually did it but here is another report of the same issue:

http://wintoflash.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=43180

Sorry, I couldn't help but I would recommend using Rufus hence forth:

http://rufus.akeo.ie/


Good luck,

WOT

WOT said:

Ok, I just wanted to make sure you weren't a victim of the San Disk manufacturing error (like I was). Unfortunately, I cannot provide a proven way to switch that local/removable bit back to removable and I am surprised that WintoFlash actually did it but here is another report of the same issue:

http://wintoflash.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=43180

Sorry, I couldn't help but I would recommend using Rufus hence forth:

http://rufus.akeo.ie/


Good luck,

WOT

+1 on RUFUS for the future.

You might try MiniTool Partition Manager (free), delete the partition on the flash drive, then re-format to FAT32. If you have the other flash drives, try copying the original software over to it.

Honestly I've never had this happen, and it's just a WAG....

Also, might check here and make sure it's set for quick removal (no write-caching)

I assume you are running CU version which now recognises more than one partition on a flash drive. Use diskpart command to clean drive and it should go back to removeable drive.