Hi,

My new laptop has a 10-in-1 Card Reader. In Windows XP it shows me 4
drive-letters for it: F:, G:, H: and I:, even when there is no card in it.

To avoid it, I shuld have disabled the card reader in the BIOS before
isntalling Windows XP. Offcourse I don't want to redo my installation (took
me 2 days!), and I guess there must be another way to remove those drive
letters when there isn't a card in it.

Any idea how to do this? Somewhere in the registry?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Pieter

Pieter Coucke wrote:
>
> My new laptop has a 10-in-1 Card Reader. In Windows XP it shows me 4
> drive-letters for it: F:, G:, H: and I:, even when there is no card in it.

How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;307844

If you have an NTFS formatted drive then I suggest to
create a folder 'CardReader' there, create a subfolder
in it for each slot of the card reader. Then you can
remove the letters and mount the slots to the created
folders.


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

Hi,

Thanks for the answer.

I don't really want to change the drive letters, but I want them only to be
shown when there is actually a card in it, not when they are empty (like
with an USB-stick that is plugged in or out).

The mounting-solution seems nice to me, and I do have NTFS. But the "mount
in the following empty ntfs folder"-option is disabled. Is there a reason
for which it is disabled? And hwo can I enable this option?

Pieter

"Uwe Sieber" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;307844
>
> If you have an NTFS formatted drive then I suggest to
> create a folder 'CardReader' there, create a subfolder
> in it for each slot of the card reader. Then you can
> remove the letters and mount the slots to the created
> folders.
>
>
> Greetings from Germany
>
> Uwe

Pieter Coucke wrote:
>
> Thanks for the answer.
>
> I don't really want to change the drive letters, but I want them only to be
> shown when there is actually a card in it, not when they are empty (like
> with an USB-stick that is plugged in or out).

There is on automatic mechanism for that.

> The mounting-solution seems nice to me, and I do have NTFS. But the "mount
> in the following empty ntfs folder"-option is disabled. Is there a reason
> for which it is disabled? And hwo can I enable this option?

Yes, that's a bit strange. 'Change' is suitable to change
from one letter to anohter. Click 'Remove' first, then 'Add'.



Greetings from Germany

Uwe

It's easier than messing with the registry....

1. Right click on the may computer icon and go to properties
2. click on hardware tab at the top, then select device manager
3. find the unwanted drives in the list of devices, right click on each one
individually and select disable

re-boot the machine and your laughin'

Seán


in article em2FI#(E-Mail Removed), Pieter Coucke at
(E-Mail Removed) wrote on 12/04/2006 8:05 am:

> Hi,
>
> My new laptop has a 10-in-1 Card Reader. In Windows XP it shows me 4
> drive-letters for it: F:, G:, H: and I:, even when there is no card in it.
>
> To avoid it, I shuld have disabled the card reader in the BIOS before
> isntalling Windows XP. Offcourse I don't want to redo my installation (took
> me 2 days!), and I guess there must be another way to remove those drive
> letters when there isn't a card in it.
>
> Any idea how to do this? Somewhere in the registry?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>
> Pieter
>
>
>

The drives disappear indeed, but when I put a card in it, will they appear
automaticly?

"Sean Fitzmaurice" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:C06296BC.442D%(E-Mail Removed)...
> It's easier than messing with the registry....
>
> 1. Right click on the may computer icon and go to properties
> 2. click on hardware tab at the top, then select device manager
> 3. find the unwanted drives in the list of devices, right click on each
> one
> individually and select disable
>
> re-boot the machine and your laughin'
>
> Seán

No they will not

"Pieter Coucke" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> The drives disappear indeed, but when I put a card in it, will they appear
> automaticly?
>
> "Sean Fitzmaurice" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:C06296BC.442D%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> It's easier than messing with the registry....
>>
>> 1. Right click on the may computer icon and go to properties
>> 2. click on hardware tab at the top, then select device manager
>> 3. find the unwanted drives in the list of devices, right click on each
>> one
>> individually and select disable
>>
>> re-boot the machine and your laughin'
>>
>> Seán
>
>

On 12/04/2006 "Pieter Coucke" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>My new laptop has a 10-in-1 Card Reader. In Windows XP it shows me 4
>drive-letters for it: F:, G:, H: and I:, even when there is no card in it.
>
>To avoid it, I shuld have disabled the card reader in the BIOS before
>isntalling Windows XP. Offcourse I don't want to redo my installation (took
>me 2 days!), and I guess there must be another way to remove those drive
>letters when there isn't a card in it.
>
>Any idea how to do this? Somewhere in the registry?
>
>Thanks a lot in advance,
>
>Pieter
>
>
>

In general, card reader "appear" to be "hot-swapable" media device. This
seems to make that the reader slots themselves are the drives and when the
media card can be inserted/removed without powering down the PC. This is very
similar to the floppy drive usage.

--
---

Y.

"Yves Leclerc" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> On 12/04/2006 "Pieter Coucke" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>My new laptop has a 10-in-1 Card Reader. In Windows XP it shows me 4
>>drive-letters for it: F:, G:, H: and I:, even when there is no card in it.
>>
>>To avoid it, I shuld have disabled the card reader in the BIOS before
>>isntalling Windows XP. Offcourse I don't want to redo my installation
>>(took
>>me 2 days!), and I guess there must be another way to remove those drive
>>letters when there isn't a card in it.
>>
>>Any idea how to do this? Somewhere in the registry?
>>
>>Thanks a lot in advance,
>>
>>Pieter
>>
>>
>>
>
> In general, card reader "appear" to be "hot-swapable" media device. This
> seems to make that the reader slots themselves are the drives and when the
> media card can be inserted/removed without powering down the PC. This is
> very
> similar to the floppy drive usage.
>
> --
> ---
>
> Y.
>

Card readers are optimized for quick removal.
There is no write caching to improve drive performance.
--
Ron Sommer

"Pieter Coucke" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:em2FI%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> My new laptop has a 10-in-1 Card Reader. In Windows XP it shows me 4 drive-letters for it: F:, G:, H: and I:, even when there
> is no card in it.
>
> To avoid it, I shuld have disabled the card reader in the BIOS before isntalling Windows XP.


These 4 drives correspond to different types of flash cards.
The reader itself can be connected via USB - check in device manager
if it is visible and you can disable it there when not in use.
Or, you can disable the drives only for flash types that you don't use.

Regards,
--PA