Disconnecting Dell's built in card readers?

[Dave F.]

Hi

Is there a way to free up the drive letters that get used up by
the multi-card readers that come with Dells, without taking the
back off the PC & disconnecting the cables?

Thanks
Dave F.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi

Is there a way to free up the drive letters that get used up by
the multi-card readers that come with Dells, without taking the
back off the PC & disconnecting the cables?

Thanks
Dave F.

Disk management should do it.

But why? Surely you can't have 20 mapped drive letters on your network

 

[R. McCarty]

Use DiskMgmt.Msc and Right Click each Card Reader in the device
map and take "Change Drive Letter....", click the Remove option to
remove the existing letter assignment.

 

[Dave F.]

Disk management should do it.

But why? Surely you can't have 20 mapped drive letters on your network

Well... I don't use them...
they take time to connect to when logging on....
I want the same drive letters for each PC I plug my removable devices in to.

I'm sure I could think of other reasons if I tried.

To turn the question around - give me some reasons why I'd want to keep them?

Dave F.

 

[Dave F.]

Disk management should do it.

But why? Surely you can't have 20 mapped drive letters on your network

Well... I don't use them...
they take time to connect to when logging on....
I want the same drive letters for each PC I plug my removable devices in to.

I'm sure I could think of other reasons if I tried.

To turn the question around - give me some reasons why I'd want to keep them?

Dave F.

 

[Dave F.]

Disk management should do it.

But why? Surely you can't have 20 mapped drive letters on your network

Well... I don't use them...
they take time to connect to when logging on....
I want the same drive letters for each PC I plug my removable devices in to.

I'm sure I could think of other reasons if I tried.

To turn the question around - give me some reasons why I'd want to keep them?

Dave F.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I don't know about that. I have A: to Q: unbroken plus Z: (thank you WLOC)
on mine. Those are the local drives. Then there are the dozen or so in
Network. And that's at home.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[R. McCarty]

I have 12 volumes on my main desktop. That's distributed across
3 physical drives. Sometimes drive lettering can be a big issue.

I don't know about that. I have A: to Q: unbroken plus Z: (thank you WLOC)
on mine. Those are the local drives. Then there are the dozen or so in
Network. And that's at home.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Disk management should do it.

But why? Surely you can't have 20 mapped drive letters on your network

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

My volumes aren't partitioned, but with four hdd's, card reader (four
letters), floppy, two optical drives, a ReadyBoost flash drive, three
virtual drives (Virtual Drive Pro) and a network drive it is getting on into
the alphabet pretty far.

Pretty soon I'm going to have to localize on Cambodian (world's longest
alphabet at 74 letters [Rotokas is shortest at 12]).

But not until the language packs come out for my Vista Ultimate SP1 setup.

I have 12 volumes on my main desktop. That's distributed across
3 physical drives. Sometimes drive lettering can be a big issue.

I don't know about that. I have A: to Q: unbroken plus Z: (thank you
WLOC) on mine. Those are the local drives. Then there are the dozen or
so in Network. And that's at home.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Hi

Is there a way to free up the drive letters that get used up by
the multi-card readers that come with Dells, without taking the
back off the PC & disconnecting the cables?

Thanks
Dave F.

Disk management should do it.

But why? Surely you can't have 20 mapped drive letters on your network

 

[smlunatick]

My volumes aren't partitioned, but with four hdd's, card reader (four
letters), floppy, two optical drives, a ReadyBoost flash drive, three
virtual drives (Virtual Drive Pro) and a network drive it is getting on into
the alphabet pretty far.

Pretty soon I'm going to have to localize on Cambodian (world's longest
alphabet at 74 letters [Rotokas is shortest at 12]).

But not until the language packs come out for my Vista Ultimate SP1 setup.

I have 12 volumes on my main desktop. That's distributed across
3 physical drives. Sometimes drive lettering can be a big issue.

I don't know about that.  I have A: to Q: unbroken plus Z: (thank you
WLOC) on mine.  Those are the local drives.  Then there are the dozen or
so in Network.  And that's at home.  
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
messageHi
Is there a way to free up the drive letters that get used up by
the multi-card readers that come with Dells, without taking the
back off the PC & disconnecting the cables?
Thanks
Dave F.
Disk management should do it.
But why? Surely you can't have 20 mapped drive letters on your network
- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Are you using Windwos Xp since I believe that the ReadyBoost flash
drive is able to boost Vista?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Yes, I use XP. But having lots of drive letters also came up and I was
commenting on my flagship machine which is a Q6600 based system with lots of
ram and lots of drives. On that one I run Vista Ultimate x64. But of
course the Xporter flash drive I use for ReadyBoost would still take up a
drive letter on an XP machine as just another flash drive if I plugged it in
there.

My volumes aren't partitioned, but with four hdd's, card reader (four
letters), floppy, two optical drives, a ReadyBoost flash drive, three
virtual drives (Virtual Drive Pro) and a network drive it is getting on
into
the alphabet pretty far.

Pretty soon I'm going to have to localize on Cambodian (world's longest
alphabet at 74 letters [Rotokas is shortest at 12]).

But not until the language packs come out for my Vista Ultimate SP1 setup.

I have 12 volumes on my main desktop. That's distributed across
3 physical drives. Sometimes drive lettering can be a big issue.

I don't know about that. I have A: to Q: unbroken plus Z: (thank you
WLOC) on mine. Those are the local drives. Then there are the dozen or
so in Network. And that's at home.
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
messageHi
Is there a way to free up the drive letters that get used up by
the multi-card readers that come with Dells, without taking the
back off the PC & disconnecting the cables?
Thanks
Dave F.
Disk management should do it.
But why? Surely you can't have 20 mapped drive letters on your network
- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Are you using Windwos Xp since I believe that the ReadyBoost flash
drive is able to boost Vista?

 

[Leigh]

Well... I don't use them...
they take time to connect to when logging on....
I want the same drive letters for each PC I plug my removable devices in
to.

I'm sure I could think of other reasons if I tried.

To turn the question around - give me some reasons why I'd want to keep
them?

Dave F.

Dave, you can go to:

alt.sys.pc-clone.dell

and ask your question on that newsgroup. There are a lot of helpful and
knowledgeable people who frequent that newsgroup.

Leigh

 

[M.I.5¾]

Well... I don't use them...
they take time to connect to when logging on....
I want the same drive letters for each PC I plug my removable devices in
to.

I'm sure I could think of other reasons if I tried.

To turn the question around - give me some reasons why I'd want to keep
them?

Dave F.

Is there an echo in here?

 

[Dave F.]

Dave, you can go to:

alt.sys.pc-clone.dell

and ask your question on that newsgroup. There are a lot of helpful and
knowledgeable people who frequent that newsgroup.

Leigh

Thanks for that. I hang around here a bit longer, though, while I await
the MVP's reply.

Dave F.

 

[PD43]

Thanks for that. I hang around here a bit longer, though, while I await
the MVP's reply.

They are here to answer questions about the XP operating system, NOT
about Dell hardware.

That's why the previous replier steered you to a Dell forum.

 

[Dave F.]

They are here to answer questions about the XP operating system, NOT
about Dell hardware.

The way the readers are disconnected IS using XP software. My question is COMPLETELY valid in this NG.
I clearly said in my OP that I DIDN'T want to deal with the hardware.

I'm gob-smack I have to explain this to you. Please read more carefully in future.

That's why the previous replier steered you to a Dell forum.

And that is why I thanked him.

 

[Plato]

Is there a way to free up the drive letters that get used up by
the multi-card readers that come with Dells, without taking the
back off the PC & disconnecting the cables?

Try disk management...,