[access-uk] Re: Drive letter assignment

Hi Mark,

This MS Knowledge Base Article may help you.

How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844

George.

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Threadgold
Sent: 18 April 2008 09:33
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Drive letter assignment

Peter, 

Thanks, but this is not the problem.  I find the drives in
exactly the same
way as yourself in explorer.  

Rather the Second Copy application I use to back up my files
from the laptop
to the drives uses the drive letter assigned to the drive in
its profile.
Therefore if I now try to copy the fifty gigs of information
on one of the
hard drives to the other one, it is now trying to copy it to
a 1 gig pen
drive.  

If I cannot force the drive letters back wo the way they
were I am going to
have to re jig the Second Copy profiles every time I want to
use it.  This
is impractical as some of the backups are done by the
scheduler
automatically.   

Cheers, 


Mark Threadgold 

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Peter Logue
Sent: 18 April 2008 10:13
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Drive letter assignment

Hi Mark,
If its any help, I have re-named   my removable drives, so
that in locating
them I do not have to rely on a drive letter. After opeing
Windows Explorer
my search can be as easy as hitting the letter F for - Fred.
Or - George in
which case you would  type G. I disregard the actual drive
letter as my
first letter search does the job. I have 4 such drives and
this works well. 


Peter Logue





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[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mark Threadgold
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 7:55 AM
To: accessuk list
Subject: [access-uk] Drive letter assignment

How do you change the drive letter assignment of a removable
drive, please?


I have a pair of WD Passport external hard drives on my
Toshiba laptop which
have had their drive letters of E and F and these have been
remembered by
the machine when they have been disconnected.  

Today I plugged in a USB pen drive and it took the drive
letter E forcing
the first of the hard drives to use G when it was plugged
back in.  

Previously it did not change the drive letter assignment
when plugged in and
removed in this manner and now my backup utility is messed
up as the drives
set in it are no longer correct.  

How do I force the hard drive assignment back to E so it
picks up the pen
drive on G again please?  

Regards, 

Mark Threadgold 

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