NOT displaying/showing drive letters of USB/removable media partitions in WinExplorer ?

[Thommy Kanther]

On a new computer system with pre-installed WinXP I can see a lot of drive letters
in Windows Explorer for all USB and removable drives. Since this computer has
4 USB drives and 1 for a Memory Stick there are always 5 drive letters

E:, F:, G:, H:, I:

with no contents (No external USB Stick or Memory card is currently plugged in).

I don't want to see all these drive letters. Is there a way to let them only appear
when a card/stick is plugged in ?

Thommy

 

[Guest]

You must have a very special driver for the USB drives. With the standard
driver the letter would not show until connected. The memory stick sockets
differ of course, I see them all the time and I'd rather not see them when no
stick is attached!

 

[Guest]

But you could create a searchpath on your c: via disk manager and then delete
the letter designation. I just now did so with my SD-socket, which was named
F:. I made it c:\memories\SD, plugged in a stick and it worked. Nota bene, it
might not work with some special programs for reading photographic data or
so. Has anybody tried it?

 

[Guest]

But you will of course never see a letter even if you plug in a stick. But
you might create a convenient shortcut for it somewhere where it would not
disturb as much...