[bcab] Re: Fixing drive letter for pen drives

Hi Leon

As I only have three different pen drives, this method will work almost as 
well as the way I originally wanted.

The reason why I need to do this is that, although the pen drives should 
take the first available slot, one of them bumped my external hard drive so 
that I couldn't see it with Explorer.  On my girlfriends computer, it did 
the same for the CD rom drive.

Thanks very much

Barry


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 1:13 PM
Subject: [bcab] Re: Fixing drive letter for pen drives


Hi Barry a removable drive being connected will normally assume the first 
available drive letter
that plug and play can find for it.  Although you can't really make every 
pen drive that you connect
assume the same letter, you can specify which drive letter each individual 
one uses, when it
re-visits the same PC.

You can change the letter that any individual pen drive uses, by the 
following method.

1) Connect the pen drive
2) Go to your "My computer" icon, press the application key and select 
"Manage" from the menu.
3) Select "Disk Management" from the tree view, then press tab and arrow 
down to the drive required
from the list.
4) Press the application key on it and choose "change drive letter and 
paths".
5) Tab twice to get to the "Change" button and press space bar.
6) Tab once to get to the combo box and use arrow keys to select the new 
drive letter you require.
7) Press enter, then select the YES button to confirm your decision.
8) Lastly close the computer management window.

From then on when you connect that same drive to the same PC it will always 
have the same letter.
If you have more than one pen drive you can do the same for each one.

HTH - Leon Gilbert
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Hill" <bbinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 9:09 AM
Subject: [bcab] Fixing drive letter for pen drives


Hi all

Is it possible to set a drive letter for a pen drive so that, no matter what
pen drive is attached to my computer, it always uses the same drive letter?

As it stands, my computer has been calling them F drive, which is my
external hard drive, H and I.  I'd like to make it Z so that it has no way
of messing with any other drives.

Cheers

Barry

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