How to make USB stick to appear CD ROM

Question

How I can make my memory stick have two partitions like this force-ably so that i can have a read-only part of my memory stick that also runs the auto-run automatically in Windows?

There is a same question in Make a USB stick act like a CD

But the solution link is no more working

Solution

Something like ultraiso could work, the problem is the CD partition could be removed if you Erase the drive through something like diskpart in Windows. To get a true CD partition, it needs to be setup on the USB controller itself, on the device, at the hardware level.

Done this way, it is a true CD-ROM partition and connot be changed or removed. I used some gear from nexcopy and their duplicator/software allowed for this. It also gave us the option to use the remaining memory space as a read/write drive. I think that is what you are after.

Duplicator will cost you some cash, so not sure if this is applicable to and end-user, but it's what you are after.

Actually, Windows doesn't support auto-run for USB sticks anylonger anyway, so might be a mute point these days.

Comments

[Ramhound]

The solution by uSlackr still works. I should point out Windows does not support USB flashes devices to be partitioned in this maner. The U3 devices talked about in the linked question were discontinued because they were a BAD idea.

[bijith]

I have the exact requirement of "Tom lease"( make a normal memmory stick appear as CD-ROM ) and he made it by this link( squidoo.com/usbcd) ,so I'm seeking the information inside this link

[Ramhound]

The link is dead. We cannot tell you what was contained on that website. But a combination of making a small partition, autorun ( which is disabled in recent version of Windows ), and making the smaller partition read-only could emulate what you need. The disk icon just wouldn't be a "cd-rom" icon.

[Scott Chamberlain]

For those wanting to see the link, it is still live via the wayback machine