make offline command does not exist on usb flash drives in diskmanagement console

Question

_{Sunday, November 17, 2013 9:33 AM}

hi friends

an strange problem. when i connect any USB flash drive to my computer (windows 2012 datacenter), in diskmanagment console, there is no "offline" command.

only these commands exist there: change drive letter- eject - properties- help

whay make offline does not exist ?  i must first be able to offline that so that i can continue your solution.

any help please

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_{Tuesday, November 26, 2013 7:38 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

There is a similar thread, please go through it to help you resolve the issue:

Take a USB drive offline in Windows Server 2012
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/5ee73a1d-0e56-41ca-a7f4-1e3af38a1e98/take-a-usb-drive-offline-in-windows-server-2012?forum=winserver8gen

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_{Sunday, November 17, 2013 9:50 AM}

Dear John,

Lets consider your USB flash disk id is 1 then open command prompt: 

Diskpart

Select disk 1

Offline disk

You can use "List Disk" in "diskpart" to list all of your attached disks

Regards,

Housam Smadi

_{Sunday, November 17, 2013 9:56 AM}

And Also you can use the following PowerShell command: Set-Disk -isOffline:$True

The Easy Way to Manage Disk Drives: 

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/11/25/weekend-scripter-the-easy-way-to-manage-disk-drives.aspx

Regards,

Housam Smadi

_{Sunday, November 17, 2013 10:00 AM}

Dear John,

Lets consider your USB flash disk id is 1 then open command prompt: 

Diskpart

Select disk 1

Offline disk

You can use "List Disk" in "diskpart" to list all of your attached disks

Regards,

Housam Smadi

thanks i tested your solution but i got this error :

Virtual disk service error:

"the operation is not supported on removable media"

i tested this on 4BG & 8GB USB flash coll disks which was formatted NTFS.

any idea ?

may it be related to size of the cool disk ?

_{Friday, July 12, 2019 2:12 AM}

This thread referenced is not a solution to the problem at all.

It's amazing this problem has been here for 6 years, and this is still the first search term found via Google; the error phrase "The operation is not supported on removable media." doesn't show up on Bing at all.

The problem is, you HAVE to mark a drive offline to present the SD card to a VM (for example, a Raspberry Pi card to a Debian VM to get the boot logs).

The solution in the linked thread was not a removable SD card and was a pretty common sense method of attaching a virtual disk. This isn't the situation.

We need a way to present an SD card as a virtual disk to a VM. That's not possible; if you try to offline the disk you get:

"The operation is not supported on removable media."

You can't share the disk as it's an ext3 format.

        == John ==

== John ==

_{Monday, March 16, 2020 8:08 PM}

Yeah I always find it a bit silly when moderators mark their own wrong reply as an answer...