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Can I use a USB Networking Bridge to turn my PC into a flash drive for use with another PC (no admin access)?

I'm trying to use PCs in a public libraryI want to be able to download articles from their proprietary databases directly to my PCIt seems to me that, if it's possible, the simplest way would be to install some software on my computer, then connect a USB-USB bridge connector (I have the Tornado, but there are other similar devices on the market if it can't be done with the Tornado) to my PC and put the other end into the public computer.I want the public computer to read my computer as any other flash drive (except bigger)I can't install anything on the other computer or run third party software, which is why I can't use the software that comes with the Tornado (it comes with an application loaded onto the device which you must run from both PCs, but I can't run it from the public computer because I don't have administrator access)Both computers run Windows 7, if that makes a difference.

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I'm not aware of any device that allows this to be done and thinking about it I don't think it is even possibleStorage devices and their file systems are created with the implicit assumption that only a single device will be controlling them at onceA device that makes another machine appear to be a regular mass storage device would by necessity need to hand over responsibility for various low-level details to that computerHowever, if the machine is itself up and running it needs that control for itselfWith both regarding the drive as exclusively theirs you could end up with all sorts of problems - the same block being allocated to two different files and so onThe only way to do this would be to keep low level control on one machine and use a higher level protocol for the other oneHowever, then it no longer looks like a regular hard drive which is why you need special softwareSave your stuff to a flash drive and then copy it over to your machine when you are done It's not that big a deal, surely?
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