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how to disable mass storage in v2

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# Some random and useful recipes
## Take a HDMI screenshot via console on Pi-KVM
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:exclamation: The USB-Ethernet features are experimental, so some of the default settings may be changed in future releases.
## Adding extra Mass Storage Drives
Specifically to v2. By default, Pi-KVM creates only one drive for Mass Storage emulation. However, you can create additional drives and manage them manually via the terminal. This is useful if you want to boot the server from a ISO CD (specified in the web interface), then connect a virtual flash drive to the server and download some files from to Pi-KVM from it.
## Mass Storage Drives
Specifically to v2. Unless explicitly [disabled](#disable-mass-storage-emulation) by default, Pi-KVM creates only one drive for Mass Storage emulation. However, you can create additional drives and manage them manually via the terminal. This is useful if you want to boot the server from a ISO CD (specified in the web interface), then connect a virtual flash drive to the server and download some files from to Pi-KVM from it.
:exclamation: The presence of an additional Mass Storage device should not interfere with the boot, but for reasons of compatibility paranoia, this is disabled by default. We recommend setting up the drives in advance, making sure that booting from the ISO CD is still working, and then using the drives as needed.
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7. You can download the resulting image via SCP or mount it as a loop device on the Pi-KVM.
### Disable mass storage emulation
To disable mass storage emulation altogether, you can place the following piece of configuration into /etc/kvmd/override.yaml
``` yaml
kvmd:
msd:
type: disabled
```
## Create a Microsoft Windows based Flash disk image
This procedure will create a disk image of a USB stick. This is mostly required for Microsoft Windows (TM) based images since they are larger than the CDROM based limit of 2.2GB.
You can create a bootable USB stick with the normal Microsoft tools, e.g. Media Creation Tool.