Mapping Removable media via Windows Remote Desktop as Removable Media

Question

I have a Windows Server to which I'm connecting via Remote Desktop Connection. On my local Desktop I have a CF card as removable media connected. I want to have access to this as a Removable Media also on the Server. The reason is that I have a software on the Server that only can write exports to removable media.

When I connect to the server I can in the RDC use the option to bring local resources through the connection. But then I see it as a network drive on my server and not as a removable media (and therefore my software ignores it).

Is there anyway that I can change the network drive to be seen as a removable media? Is there a way to map the local removable media to the server as a removable media? Is there any known software that can emulate a removable media?

I only need my software to export the files to the removable media. After that I can copy them to anywhere and write them to the CF-card where I can access the card physically.

The server is a VM why it's not that easy to have a physical removable media on the machine since it can change physical platforms over time without my knowledge.

Answer 1

I don't think you can convert a network share into a removable drive, but you can create a fake removable drive to which the program may write. Then you can copy the files to your network share using RDP.

The tool to use is ImDisk Toolkit.

I quote from another SU answer:

You can use ImDisk to create a removable USB drive

imdisk -a -s 536870912 -m R: -o rem -p "fs:ntfs /q /y"

-a      Attach a virtual disk. This will configure and attach a virtual disk
        with the parameters specified and attach it to the system.
-s      Size of the virtual disk. Size is number of bytes
-m      Specifies a drive letter or mount point for the new virtual disk
-o rem  Specifies that the device should be created with removable media
        characteristics.
-p      'format' command to create a filesystem when the new virtual disk has 
        been created. "/fs:ntfs /q /y" is: Create an NTFS filesystem with quick 
        formatting and without user interaction.