I was told windows has made a change that USB drives are not suppose to show up as USB drives anymore, someone a San Disk:
Dear brian,
Thanks for contacting SanDisk Technical Support. It is our goal to make sure you have all the resources you need to get the most from your product.
UNetbootin was created and written by Geza Kovacs (Github: gkovacs, Launchpad: gezakovacs, contact info). Translators are listed on the translations page. UNetbootin is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or above. This PPA can be added to your system manually by copying the lines below and adding them to your system's software sources. UNetbootin (short for “Universal Netboot Installer”) is software that allows you to easily create bootable USB flash drives to install or use operating systems. This software is designed to be cross-platform and works with Windows, as well as Mac and Linux operating systems. Unetbootin Windows Unetbootin MacOS Unetbootin Linux While the primary.
I understand that you are inquiring why your flash drive shows as a fixed disk instead of removable media.
Please allow us to inform you that new certification requirements for WIN 8 requires flash drives to identify as fixed disk.
Flash drives identifying as fixed disk show as Hard Drives when viewing them in Windows Explorer (for all Windows OS versions).
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We remain at your service should you require any additional information.
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Please refer to your My SanDisk at http://kb.sandisk.com anytime to see all of your incident history and product registration information. You can log in using your email address as your login and the password that you created.
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Marc J.
SanDisk Technical Support
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