David Mayerovitch wrote:
> I'm running XP Home with SP2.
>
> My drives are set up as follows:
>
> C: System HD
> D: CD/DVD-ROM
> E: CD/DVD-R/W
> F: USB flash drive FIDO
> G: USB flash drive GOOFY
>
> I have now removed FIDO from the system. I want to have GOOFY recognized as
> Drive F: because I have a backup program that is configured to write files
> to F:
>
> However, even after removing GOOFY, rebooting the computer and re-inserting
> GOOFY, I find that the system continues to recognize GOOFY as Drive G:, and
> there is no Drive F:
>
> Is there any way (other than drive substitution) to force the system to
> recognize GOOFY as F:?
Windows saves drive letter assingments once made. One per drive
and letter only but it saves.
So GOOFY will be F: until a manual change or until F: had been
used for anoter drives.
You can change the drive letter assignments in the Windows
Disk Management (Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc).
Right click on the drive -> Change drive letter
But whenever you attach GOOFY as second external drive,
Windows will assing F: again and it will save this
assingment so it will get F: assinged later even it's
attached as first drive.
For a permanent solution you need help from a 3rd party
software as my USB drive letter manager:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
With a simple USBDLM.INI you can force Windows to assing
a specific letter to the first attached drive and another
to the second one. Sample:
[DriveLetters]
Letter1=U
Letter2=V
The first attached drive gets then U: and the second V:.
If you need a specific letter for GOOFY only the you can
define drive letter by a specific criterion. Assuming
GOOFY has a drive lable 'GOOFY' and you want it a G:
;Goofy at G:
[DriveLetter1]
VolumeLabel=GOOFY
Letter=G
;all others at U: of V:
[DriveLetters]
Letter1=U
Letter2=V
Greetings from Germany
Uwe
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