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Re:Why doesn't Windows recognize a USB device plugged into a... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday June 26, 2015 @08:06AM (#9783741)
There's also the dumbed down interface that prevents you from partitioning flash drives.
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Re:Why doesn't Windows recognize a USB device plugged into a... by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday June 26, 2015 @09:29AM (#9784130)
Possibly because it's a bad idea. You can do it, but it breaks some things which assume removable drives never have multiple partitions.

Also, many removable drives don't have a partition map.

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Re:Why doesn't Windows recognize a USB device plugged into a... by hackmiester on Friday June 26, 2015 @01:19PM (#9786253)
But the same tool would let you create a partition map...
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Re:Why doesn't Windows recognize a USB device plugged into a... by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday June 26, 2015 @02:02PM (#9786565)
And erase all your data.
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Re:Why doesn't Windows recognize a USB device plugged into a... by hackmiester on Friday June 26, 2015 @05:11PM (#9787767)
This is the behavior it has for non-removable disks. Why would it be different for removable ones?
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