Drive letters in XP

[Rick Altman]

I am one of those stubborn hangers-on still using the SUBST command. I find
nothing that comes close to the efficiency and navigational ease of being
able to assign drive letters to my critical folders, and I also find nothing
that approaches the ease of accomplishing that than the ancient SUBST.

My issue is with XP's inability to acknowledge/identify/honor those drive
letters. It looks right past them, so whenever I insert a jump drive that
the system hasn't seen before, it assigns the next drive letter to
it...which is invariably one of my SUBST drives. I need to spend 45 seconds
with Disk Manager to reassign the device to another letter further down the
alphabet.

I guess my first question is to invite anyone with an alternative to SUBST
to chime in. My second, and more engaging question is this:

Is there a way to "reserve" a series of drive letters, so the OS
knows to begin assignment of new volumes to a letter of my choosing?



Many thanks...



Rick Altman
Pleasanton, CA

 

[Jim]

I am one of those stubborn hangers-on still using the SUBST command. I find
nothing that comes close to the efficiency and navigational ease of being
able to assign drive letters to my critical folders, and I also find
nothing that approaches the ease of accomplishing that than the ancient
SUBST.

My issue is with XP's inability to acknowledge/identify/honor those drive
letters. It looks right past them, so whenever I insert a jump drive that
the system hasn't seen before, it assigns the next drive letter to
it...which is invariably one of my SUBST drives. I need to spend 45
seconds with Disk Manager to reassign the device to another letter further
down the alphabet.

I guess my first question is to invite anyone with an alternative to SUBST
to chime in. My second, and more engaging question is this:

Is there a way to "reserve" a series of drive letters, so the OS
knows to begin assignment of new volumes to a letter of my choosing?

Yes, it is the same way that has been around since at least Win98SE. The
capability is somewhere in the control panel. I forgot exactly where.
Jim

 

[D.Currie]

I am one of those stubborn hangers-on still using the SUBST command. I find
nothing that comes close to the efficiency and navigational ease of being
able to assign drive letters to my critical folders, and I also find
nothing that approaches the ease of accomplishing that than the ancient
SUBST.

My issue is with XP's inability to acknowledge/identify/honor those drive
letters. It looks right past them, so whenever I insert a jump drive that
the system hasn't seen before, it assigns the next drive letter to
it...which is invariably one of my SUBST drives. I need to spend 45
seconds with Disk Manager to reassign the device to another letter further
down the alphabet.

I guess my first question is to invite anyone with an alternative to SUBST
to chime in. My second, and more engaging question is this:

Is there a way to "reserve" a series of drive letters, so the OS
knows to begin assignment of new volumes to a letter of my choosing?



Many thanks...



Rick Altman
Pleasanton, CA

You can map the folder to a network drive letter.

 

[S. Taylor]

Yes click Start | Help & Support
type in Driver Letter , hit your enter key
under Suggested topics, click on "Assign a drive letter to a network
computer or folder"
read & follow the instructions that appear in the right hand window.