Re: usb harddrive drive letter assignment doesn't retain
- From: smlunatick <yveslec@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:00:50 -0800 (PST)
On Feb 29, 2:35 pm, OM <o...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, I did all that, but it won't retain the drive letter if I
disconnect and reconnect it sometime later.
Terry R. wrote:
The date and time was 2/29/2008 9:13 AM, and on a whim, OM pounded out
on the keyboard:
Hi,
I have a pool of usb hard drives that are used for backup. I also have
a backup script that will copy files to these drives in a daily basis.
It appears that I can't assign a specific drive letter for these
drives permanently. I tried manually changing the drive letter (the
one that I used before) for all of them, but when they are
reconnected, it will use d: again, but not the one that I specified.
Does anyone know a solution for this?
Thanks
In Win XP Pro (and your drive plugged in), go to
Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management
You should see the USB drive listed in the right hand pane, right click
on this drive and select 'Change Drive Letter and Paths'.
This assigns a fixed drive letter to the USB drive.- Hide quoted text -
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Look at http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
The author has made a system service which will help you to assign a
drive letter that would always be the same.
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