On Windows 8 or 10, particularly on tablets with a permanently inserted SD card, is there a...
Channel: Roel Van de Paar
Date: 2020-08-19

On Windows 8 or 10, particularly on tablets with a permanently inserted SD card, is there a universal way to treat the card as a non-removable drive?


The Question: I have a tablet, a Surface Pro, and I have a micro SD card that is permanently
inserted. I use it to store media files like music and video.
Windows, recognizing that it is a removable drive, deletes files immediately
instead of putting them into a recycle bin. In addition, applications such as
SkyDrive and Dropbox refuse to sync onto the card since it is removable.
I know that formatting the micro SD card NTFS, and mounting it as a folder on
the C: drive, enables SkyDrive and Dropbox to sync onto the removable drive,
but it doesn't affect file deletion.
I've also heard that various USB drives can be altered to be treated by Windows
as non-removable drives by flipping the removable bit. However, this does not
appear to be an option for card readers, at least not the one in my Surface.
Is there any way to enable the recycle bin on this drive, and generally make
this drive be treated as a non-removable drive?

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