No more drive letters?

[J Lunis]

Win XP SR2
Plugged in my flash drive and received a 'no drive letters available'
error. Drives in use (according to Explorer) are
C, D, G, H, I J, K, L, S, T (S and T are CDs)
How do I find the status of unlisted drive letters?
How do I free unused drive letters?

 

[smlunatick]

Win XP SR2
Plugged in my flash drive and received a 'no drive letters available'
error. Drives in use (according to Explorer) are
C, D, G, H, I J, K, L, S, T (S and T are CDs)
How do I find the status of unlisted drive letters?
How do I free unused drive letters?

You should look on the following http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

Thanks to Uwe for this "great" USB drive Letter Maanger service, we
can now control the drive letter behaviour (which MS forgot to do.)

 

[J Lunis]

You should look on the following http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

Thanks to Uwe for this "great" USB drive Letter Maanger service, we
can now control the drive letter behaviour (which MS forgot to do.)

Thanks,
DLd and installed USBDLM. Just the opposite of what I expected.
USBDLM didn't find my 2 CD drives.
USBDLM didn't find my 3 USB drives (actually, 3 partitions on one drive.

 

[smlunatick]

Thanks,
DLd and installed USBDLM. Just the opposite of what I expected.
USBDLM didn't find my 2 CD drives.
USBDLM didn't find my 3 USB drives (actually, 3 partitions on one drive.

Check in the Help files. You have extra configuration to help with
drive letter assignments, like:

Do not assign letters to "empty" media slots.
Reserve drive letters
Exclude drive letters
Assign drive to folder instead of a drive letter

Uwe also has an extensive FAQ on how to manage USB devices in Windows
and its registry files.

 

[AJR]

In theory drives can be assigned A to Z - with some letters reserved such a
A, B, and C. Info may be available via Control Panel>Admin Tools>Computer
mgt>Disk mgt.

Also consider Tweak (free) which , among others, provides for "turnin on or
off" drive letters.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In theory drives can be assigned A to Z - with some letters reserved such a
A, B, and C.

A and B are reserved for diskette drives, but C is not reserved at
all.

Info may be available via Control Panel>Admin Tools>Computer
mgt>Disk mgt.

Also consider Tweak (free) which , among others, provides for "turnin on or
off" drive letters.

"Tweak"? Do you mean TweakUI?

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Thanks,
DLd and installed USBDLM. Just the opposite of what I expected.
USBDLM didn't find my 2 CD drives.
USBDLM didn't find my 3 USB drives (actually, 3 partitions on one drive.

How do you see that it does not find these drives?

You can activate its log file:

[Settings]
LogLevel=3
LogFile=C:\USBDLM.LOG

Then restart the service and send me the log file.


Uwe

 

[Uwe Sieber]

A and B are reserved for diskette drives, but C is not reserved at
all.

A and B are not reserved. For floppy drives Windows starts
searching for an availlable letter at A while it starts at
D for CDROM drives and at C for all others. That's all.


Uwe

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Thanks,
DLd and installed USBDLM. Just the opposite of what I expected.
USBDLM didn't find my 2 CD drives.
USBDLM didn't find my 3 USB drives (actually, 3 partitions on one drive.

How do you see that it does not find these drives?

You can activate its log file:

[Settings]
LogLevel=3
LogFile=C:\USBDLM.LOG

Then restart the service and send me the log file.

Oops, please use LogLevel=4


Uwe

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

A and B are not reserved. For floppy drives Windows starts
searching for an availlable letter at A while it starts at
D for CDROM drives and at C for all others. That's all.

Does that mean that a hard drive or CD drive can get the letter A or
B? If that's true, it's news to me.

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Does that mean that a hard drive or CD drive can get the letter A or
B? If that's true, it's news to me.

Yes, no problem if you do it manually. In the disk management
W2K does not offer A: and B: and XP for removable drives only.
But you can assign A: or B: to any type of drive by means of
the MountVol commandline tool (a bit unhandy) or my ReMount:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/remount.zip


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Yes, no problem if you do it manually. In the disk management
W2K does not offer A: and B: and XP for removable drives only.
But you can assign A: or B: to any type of drive by means of
the MountVol commandline tool (a bit unhandy) or my ReMount:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/remount.zip

Thanks, Uwe. As I said, that's news to me.