Re: Drive letter assignments for SD cards and usb pen drive
- From: "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:24:31 +1100
This command mounts my flash disk on drive B:
mountvol b: \\?\Volume{1b478140-6780-11da-a9c8-006067726afd}\
"Ian S" <IanS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:75D77D64-E820-4082-A022-150D1C4C5CED@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
> I've had a quick look at mountvol.exe but I can't see how you can set
drives
> for the USB devices. is this something you have tried before?
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
> >
> > "Ian S" <IanS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:761C5572-89F3-43F6-816E-BDA834D19260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > I am working for an organisation deploying several hundred HP laptops,
> > > These laptops have slots at the front for SD cards. When you pop a
card
> > in
> > > at gets a drive letter e.g. E:
> > > If you put a USB memory stick in first then the stick gets drive E:
and
> > then
> > > if you put the sd card in the card tries to get drive F:
> > > Unfortunately drive F: has already been assigned as a mapped network
drive
> > > via a logon script so the SD card is unuseable.
> > > If you then take both cards out and even restart the laptop and then
put
> > the
> > > SD card in again it still wants to be drive F:
> > > the only way to reset it seems to be with disk management mmc. The
users
> > > don't have access to this as it is locked down by domain group
policies
> > plus
> > > they are not local administrators.
> > > Is there any way of ensuring that the sd card can trawl through and
> > actually
> > > find an available drive letter, not one alread mapped. In this
situation
> > > drive Z: is free but it doesn't try to find that.
> > > Another option may be to get it to use letters A: or B: as the laptops
> > have
> > > no floppy drives. Is there a way of doing this?
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > Ian
> >
> > Use the high letters of the alphabet for mapped drives.
> > This will keep the low letters free for USB drives -
> > problem solved.
> >
> > You could probably use drive letters A: and B: for your USB
> > devices, using mountvol.exe, but I consider this a messy alternative.
> >
> >
> >
.
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