Drive Assignment Newbie Question

[Thomas R Grassi Jr]

Is there anyway to assign a drive letter to usb drives and Jump Drives? I
know when you plug the jump drive in the usb port it automatically assigns a
drive letter. I have software that uses these drives for data and I would
like to make sure it uses the same drive letter every time. If I only use
one Jump Drive or USB Drive then it is not a problem but I use two and
sometimes three drives thats when it gets to be a problem.

Does anyone have an idea

Thanks

Tom

 

[Uwe Sieber]

From archive:

You can change the drive letter assignments in the Windows
Disk Management (Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc).

Windows saves letter assignments, but exactely one assigment
per letter only.
Sample: Drive1 is connected and you assign letter X. Then you
disconnect it. When you attach it again it gets letter X again
because Windows saved this assignment. Disconnect it again,
attach Drive2 and assign letter X, detach it and attach
Drive1 again. Drive1 get the the first free local letter now
beause the previous assingment has been superseded by Drive2.

Therefore there is always a rivalry for the first availlable
local letter.

The best solution is to assign one 'high' letter per USB drive,
far away from the first availlable one and away from network
drives too.


By means of my USB drive letter manager you get many options
to define drive letters for USB drives. But it may be a bit
hard to configure:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[Opinicus]

Is there anyway to assign a drive letter to usb drives and Jump Drives? I

In addition to Uwe's excellent advice I also suggest giving a unique name to
each drive.

 

[Thomas R Grassi Jr]

Uwe

Thanks

Tom

From archive:

You can change the drive letter assignments in the Windows
Disk Management (Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc).

Windows saves letter assignments, but exactely one assigment
per letter only.
Sample: Drive1 is connected and you assign letter X. Then you
disconnect it. When you attach it again it gets letter X again
because Windows saved this assignment. Disconnect it again,
attach Drive2 and assign letter X, detach it and attach
Drive1 again. Drive1 get the the first free local letter now
beause the previous assingment has been superseded by Drive2.

Therefore there is always a rivalry for the first availlable
local letter.

The best solution is to assign one 'high' letter per USB drive,
far away from the first availlable one and away from network
drives too.


By means of my USB drive letter manager you get many options
to define drive letters for USB drives. But it may be a bit
hard to configure:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Great service utility Uwe!

From archive:

You can change the drive letter assignments in the Windows
Disk Management (Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc).

Windows saves letter assignments, but exactely one assigment
per letter only.
Sample: Drive1 is connected and you assign letter X. Then you
disconnect it. When you attach it again it gets letter X again
because Windows saved this assignment. Disconnect it again,
attach Drive2 and assign letter X, detach it and attach
Drive1 again. Drive1 get the the first free local letter now
beause the previous assingment has been superseded by Drive2.

Therefore there is always a rivalry for the first availlable
local letter.

The best solution is to assign one 'high' letter per USB drive,
far away from the first availlable one and away from network
drives too.


By means of my USB drive letter manager you get many options
to define drive letters for USB drives. But it may be a bit
hard to configure:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html


Greetings from Germany

Uwe