Reserved Drive Letter for Removable drive?

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crapit - 25 Dec 2005 06:47 GMT

Is it possible reserved drive letter for removable storage?

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Richard Urban - 25 Dec 2005 12:24 GMT

Insert the removable drive. Then right click on My Computer. Go to Manage |
Disk Management.

Locate and right click on the drive. Use "change drive letter and paths" Set
the drive for R (removable) or any other letter you choose. Now every time
you insert the removable drive (to the same USB port) the drive will be seen
as drive R:

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Richard Urban
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> Is it possible reserved drive letter for removable storage?

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crapit - 25 Dec 2005 20:21 GMT

I had tried ur suggested method b4, it simply doesn't work

> Insert the removable drive. Then right click on My Computer. Go to Manage
> | Disk Management.
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>> Is it possible reserved drive letter for removable storage?

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Richard Urban - 25 Dec 2005 21:00 GMT

Then you are doing something wrong. I have my Sandisk Mini Cruiser thumb
drive as drive R: on this computer, using the exact method I instructed you
to use.

Maybe if you "told" us where your problem is - instead of saying it doesn't
work.........................

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

>I had tried ur suggested method b4, it simply doesn't work
>> Insert the removable drive. Then right click on My Computer. Go to Manage
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>>> Is it possible reserved drive letter for removable storage?

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Yves Leclerc - 27 Dec 2005 14:48 GMT

>Then you are doing something wrong. I have my Sandisk Mini Cruiser thumb
>drive as drive R: on this computer, using the exact method I instructed you
>to use.
>
>Maybe if you "told" us where your problem is - instead of saying it doesn't
>work.........................

The "suggested" method of assigning a drive letter to the removable drive
works best if you always re-connect the drive/device back onto the "same" USB
port. If you connect the drive to a different USB port, then because USB
ports need to "renumerate" the device IDs, you may encounter that the drive
letter changes. (I should know this because I spent October 2005 with this
problem!)

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crapit - 31 Dec 2005 01:25 GMT

Yo, the same port is used: bcoz I never removed the connection

>>Then you are doing something wrong. I have my Sandisk Mini Cruiser thumb
>>drive as drive R: on this computer, using the exact method I instructed
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> Y.

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