![]() ![]() ![]() As soon as I reformat it to NTFS, the performance drops to an average of 2MBps, and severely oscillating, instead of writing continuously. The result is that the flash is “almost” reset to the original performance, it writes at 190MBps (originally it wrote at 210MBps speeds). HP USB format tool does format, but it repartitions too with other alignment, and I didn’t want that. I opened a ticket to find out if there’s any development from Sandisk side on this issue.įound a helpful postthat got me thinking about repartitioning and realigning partitions in the original configuration.Īccording to it, the original partition alignment is 32k, with the 1st cluster at 32k and formatted with 32k clusters.Īll I managed using diskpart was to create an aligned partition at 32k and format it with 32k clusters, but didn’t find any way to align first cluster, which appears to be at 4k instead of the original 32k when I partition with diskpart.Īfter that I formatted to FAT32 with AOMEI Partition Wizard, since I couldn’t find anything else to let me format such a large partition with FAT32. I searched more on the forums, and it seems there are quite a few people with this problem, with no response from Sandisk whatsoever. There may be a way to setup additional partitiions (Disk Management won’t let me shrink the volume while running WTG workspace) creating an unbootable partition to use for normal storage but I’ll let others figure that out… Fo rnow I happy having WTG working. I only want to use it as a Windows To Go workspace. It looks like WinToUSB creates the boot partition (14GB size in my case) and that is marked as a Basic (fixed) disk but other drive partition still appears as Removeable Disk in Disk Management but that doesn’t matter to me. Each boot using the WTG drive now takes several minutes but response is decent once it’s up and running. First boot to setup Windows TP was very slow but once loaded / configured, not so bad. After using v2.1 beta I am now able to run Windows Tech Preview from the Sandisk Extreme on my laptop. I tried WinToUSB version 2.0 without this new option and it didn’t work. Be sure to select the VHD installation mode (used a 14GB virtual disk setting). My main problem was not just to make the flash drive appear as a fixed disk but making a bootable Windows To Go device for Windows 10 Tech Preview on my Extreme SDCZ80-064G-GAM46 64GB stick.Īfter trying everything else possible from various instructions and tools found online, WinToUSB beta 2.1 finally worked for me on my SDCZ80-064G. So go on and try WinToUSb !!! Results guaranteed. Takes much much longer and several reboots are needed for it to work. Of course one could build the flash drive using the VHD method only using Diskpart.exe and imagex.exe, but it’s a pain in the ass. ![]() So, for anyone’s interest, I have tested Windows To Go using Windows 8.1 Pro on my 32 Gb San Disk Extreme created with WinToUsb and it works amazing. And that is not available for SanDisk Extreme usb drives as SanDisk had a change of heart (poor heart) and reverted all newer drives’ bit and therefore making them removable again and not fixed drives as they were sold once. For the last approach to work one needs a real proper fxed drive. It creates a VHD drive on the USB drive and not applying the install.wim with expanded folder structure as every other tool out there do. Then, I stumbled upon WinToUSB which has a different approach. After several tries, trying to make the usb stick boot with Windows To Go (I have been successfully able to make it fixed with diskmod.sys and created my WindowsToGo stick using Rufus), it failed every single time to boot, only once it showed signs that it would work using MBR partition thype in Rufus and not GPT, but it hanged for 3-4 hours and I rebooted my laptop eventually. If you put Windows To Go on it does it boot? You do realize that the drive will only appear to be Fixed on systems that have the diskmod.sys driver installed, right? On systems without the driver it will still be seen as Removable. Re: Sandisk Extreme 64GB - make it a fixed drive? ![]()
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