Drive Letters Assignment

[Guest]

I got some built in card readers on a Windows XP Pro system. And they like to
get the first available letters F and G, which are also network mapped drives
letters. And ofcourse users love them so much if I change, they will try to
kill me. I am smart enough to change those in Disk Management but after few
hours/days/weeks these readers are smart enough to fool me and capture F and
G. Is there a way to permanently change local drive letter assignment?
TIA

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I got some built in card readers on a Windows XP Pro system. And they like to
get the first available letters F and G, which are also network mapped drives
letters. And ofcourse users love them so much if I change, they will try to
kill me. I am smart enough to change those in Disk Management but after few
hours/days/weeks these readers are smart enough to fool me and capture F and
G. Is there a way to permanently change local drive letter assignment?
TIA

Yes - use the high letters of the alphabet for your
mapped network drives so that the low letters are
available for local devices. It's usually done with
a logon script.

 

[Guest]

Hi Pegasus,
Thanks for your reply but you didn't answer my question. I know how to
change mapped drives. I want to know how to permnanently assign high letters
to local devices.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Connect the local devices, then run diskmgmt.msc to set
the desired drive letters. They will stick for the current
devices but the PC will drop back to the low letters of
the alphabet for new devices. You might get some help
with USBDLM (http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html)
but your best bet is still to get your share drive letters out
of the way.

 

[Plato]

Thanks for your reply but you didn't answer my question. I know how to

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