Make Virtual Usb Drive
Create A Virtual Usb Drive

I'm investigating options available for creating a virtual USB device (say, a keyboard or a mass storage device), so to emulate its function as needed and to allow a userspace app to emulate its insertion/removal at will. What I am not clear about is how to go about the emulation of insertion/removal.
Feb 16, 2011 Where do I start if I want to create a virtual USB device (for example, a virtual USB mouse which looks like a real USB mouse attached to a USB port) for testing/learning. So far what I understand is the HIDClass driver (hidclass.sys) has a minidriver for the usb bus (hidusb.sys) that carries out the enumeration of attached USB hardware.
Once a USB device is attached to your computer, the app automatically recognizes the device type displaying it so that you as well as other software users on the network are able to see which device is available for connection (USB flash drive, virtual USB dongle, printer, scanner, mobile phone, etc.).

Sometimes there are such situations when you have to work with utilities (accounting, social, which require the presence of an external carrier in the computer). Or you just need to install a new version of the operating system. But what to do if there are no flash drives or any free CDs. There is an exit! Need a special program that will work as a virtual flash drive.

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OSFmount— lifeline for those who do not have removable media at hand

OSFmount is a small program that will help you create a drive. This application can create both a ready image (image) of a drive and RAM, which exists only in RAM. Floppy disk, artificial optical disk, and, most importantly, a virtual flash drive - the program can mount all these images. Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 virtual flash drive will be created on any Windows operating system, moreover, both in a 64-bit environment and in a 32-bit one. In mount, you can even define a specific letter for an artificial disk and set the necessary attributes. At the same time, the size of the utility does not even reach 2 megabytes, its size is only 1.95 MB. Of the minuses only that the program does not support the Russian language.

Instructions for using OSFmount

It is easy to use and does not take much time and effort to create a flash drive. So, how to create a virtual USB flash drive on a computer using OSFmount:

The first step is to download and install OSF.
Now in the window that opens, click on 'Mount new ...' in order to add media.
Now in the new window, you can configure all the mount options. Source can select the source. For example, screwed or RAM image virtual drives. But we need a USB virtual flash drive, and to make one, you need to specify the path with a specific format.
“Volume Options” settings can be skipped, since they are absolutely not needed for artificial media. They are used only when loading an image into memory or to create a disk.
With the “Mount Options” setting, you can define a letter and assign an image format. For the letter there is a window “Drive Liter”, and for the type “Drive type”;
At the bottom of the window there are two parameters 'Read-only drive' and 'Mount as remowable media'. In order to be recorded on an artificial hard drive, the tick from the first parameter should be removed. Opposite the 'Mount as remowable media' checkbox must be set so that the system opens the virtual and does not understand that it was deceived.
Click on OK! Everything, the virtual USB stick on the computer is made.

Also in the work you may need some options that open after clicking on the “Drive Actions”. This option has the following:

Dismount - to unmount;
Format— with this option you can perform formatting;
Savetoimagefile - to save in the required format;
Open - to open;
Set media read-only - disables recording;
Extendsize - used for expansion;
Set media writable — allows writing.

This is how it is very easy to do virtual usb flash on a computer. Images for virtual flash, you can choose any. But in the case of a bootable image, the drive will have to be formatted and it will only open in this application.

An alternative version of this application is Virtual Flash Drive, which is also very simple and convenient when creating an artificial repository of information. Their difference is that in OSTmount there are more additional options and besides usb flash, you can make other artificial drives.

Make Virtual Usb Drive

Conclusion

Create A Virtual Usb Drive

Now it becomes clear, even if there are no external carriers at hand, and they are very necessary, then it is possible to make their artificially created analog in a few clicks.