Reassign external drive letter

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Raphael Goubet

Hi,

I have an external USB hard drive that used to be assigned the F drive
letter by Windows XP when plugged.

With no apparent reason, Windows changed the assigned letter to G.
This messed up all the pointers I had to files stored on this drive,
and I had to recreate them all.

Is there a way to reassign a letter for a USB drive if this happens
again?

Thanks.

Raph
 
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CWatters

Raphael Goubet said:
Hi,

I have an external USB hard drive that used to be assigned the F drive
letter by Windows XP when plugged.

With no apparent reason, Windows changed the assigned letter to G.
This messed up all the pointers I had to files stored on this drive,
and I had to recreate them all.

Is there a way to reassign a letter for a USB drive if this happens
again?
Click to expand...

Search Help and Support for "change drive letter"...
or see..
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307844&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH
 

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