Hello,
I created my first bootable Tails USB drive today. It works as advertised, but I assumed that I'd be able to plug that USB drive into a Windows system and be able to access the files contained within.
Did I expect too much? Regardless of whether it is advisable, is it possible?
What mechanism is keeping the Windows system from recognizing the drive when I plug it in?
Thanks,
-Leo
A GPT partition flag is used to ask Windows not to display Tails partitions. You're free to remove this flag. So yes, regardless of whether that's advisable, it is possible to do what you're asking for. Now, the resulting stick will obviously be entirely unsupported by us (as adding / removing / modifying random files on the Tails partition results in user support hell), so please don't report bugs etc. about it if you ever do that.