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For some reason, my USB flash drive is being recognized as an external hard drive, is there any way to fix this?

I think I used Disk Utility on this flash drive before and know it won't show that it's a flash drive, my other flash drives still show up as flash drives so is there anyway to fix this? I'm on Mac OS X 10.9.3.

Posted on Jul 4, 2014 10:42 AM

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Jul 8, 2014 10:25 AM in response to KFlaieh1734

A workaround.


If you would like to change the drive icon:

- Under Finder right click on a flash drive and choose " Get Info "

- click on the disk icon at the top, from the desktop menu select Edit -> Copy


- Under Finder right click on the problematic volume and choose " Get Info "

- click on the disk icon at the top, from the desktop menu select Edit -> Paste


Cheers

For some reason, my USB flash drive is being recognized as an external hard drive, is there any way to fix this?

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