This step by step tutorial will help change your removeable USB drive into a hard drive or local drive. This means if software out there is required to run from a hard drive, it can now be ran from a flash drive. Way better.

1. USB Hack
Turn a USB Stick Into a
Hard Drive or Local Disk

2. The process of turning a USB stick into
a hard drive is fairly easy

3. THERE ARE
LIMITATIONS

4. EXAMPLE
Works best with windows XP operating systems
You also need to update the drivers
for the device for any computer you
are going to use

5. COUPLE OF ITEMS YOU’LL NEED
 USB_LocalDisk.zip files
[download here]
 Windows XP
 USB stick

6. HERE ARE THE DETAILS
 From a running Windows XP system,
Insert your USB flash drive
 Download USB_LocalDisk.zip and
extract. A USB_localDisk folder is
created.
 From the USB_LocalDisk folder, right
click cfadisk.inf and open the file with
Notepad or text editor.
If Win7 or Win10

7.  Navigate to line 26 of the cfadisk.inf file.
We are going to be editing the section
labeled “device_instance_id_goes_here“
 From your Windows Desktop,
click Start > Run and
type devmgmt.msc and click OK
 Under Disk drives, locate your USB stick
and right click, select Properties.

8.  Click the Details tab and select the item
listed. Use the Ctrl C function to copy
this driver for your USB stick

9.  Next, go back to your open
file cfadisk.inf and lets insert the drive
code you just copied and update the
file. Find the text which says:
“device_instance_id_goes_here” should be around line
26. Paste the drive code you have by Ctrl V.
 Now click Save. But now we need to
update the driver itself.
 Click Start > Run >
type devmgmt.msc and locate your USB
stick again. Right click the device and
select “Update Driver”

10. FOLLOW SPECIFIC
INSTRUCTIONS TO
MANUALLY UPDATE
THE DRIVER

11. Install from a list or specific location > Next
Don’t Search. I will choose the driver to install > Next
Have Disk…
Navigate to the location of the “cfadisk.inf” file
> click Open
Next in the Windows wizard and that’s
it! You may need to reconnect your device
to the OS

12. TWO ADDITIONAL TIPS
 Save the “cfadisk.inf” on your USB
stick so you may use it at different
locations when updating your
home or work computer.
 To partition your USB stick using
the Windows utilities you can find
that function by

13. MORE INFORMATION
https://www.getusb.info/usb-hack-turn-a-
usb-stick-into-a-hard-drive-or-local-disk/
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