Terry, Interesting solution. Some questions though... Does this work for bith hard drives and flash drives? If the drive is unplugged from the top USB port and then next time is plugged into the lower USB port will that affect the recognition and mounting to the folder? (or Front/back, Left/right, you get the idea) Does the mounting process write mounting information to the drive? If I do the forbidden DEL *.* will it need to be re-mounted? Can different partitions on the drive be mounted to different folders? If it is mounted to a folder on one computer, is it mounted to a folder on every computer it is plugged into? If I use it to transfer data to a different drive will it plug in and be recognized as a drive or will it want to be mounted there also? Will it look for the folder? Once mounted, can a drive be UNmounted? Is UNmounting ever necessary or recommended? Can it be mounted to more than one computer at a time? I guess the best question to ask to answer all of these questions would be... What is the underlying theory of operation for mounting a drive? Thanks for answers to any of these questions. I'm considering adding some external drives to help with managing the 6 computers that I take care of in our extended family. Don -- Titusville (FL) High School Class of '68 40th Reunion Please join our Yahoo Group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ths68/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "TD" <davisunit@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 5:26 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Permanent Drive Letters > Here is the text of the accepted answer from that page: > Terry > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ http://www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/