Drive letters with USB drives

[David Mayerovitch]

I'm running XP Home with SP2.

My drives are set up as follows:

C: System HD
D: CD/DVD-ROM
E: CD/DVD-R/W
F: USB flash drive FIDO
G: USB flash drive GOOFY

I have now removed FIDO from the system. I want to have GOOFY recognized as
Drive F: because I have a backup program that is configured to write files
to F:

However, even after removing GOOFY, rebooting the computer and re-inserting
GOOFY, I find that the system continues to recognize GOOFY as Drive G:, and
there is no Drive F:

Is there any way (other than drive substitution) to force the system to
recognize GOOFY as F:?

Thanks.

David

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I'm running XP Home with SP2.

My drives are set up as follows:

C: System HD
D: CD/DVD-ROM
E: CD/DVD-R/W
F: USB flash drive FIDO
G: USB flash drive GOOFY

I have now removed FIDO from the system. I want to have GOOFY recognized as
Drive F: because I have a backup program that is configured to write files
to F:

However, even after removing GOOFY, rebooting the computer and re-inserting
GOOFY, I find that the system continues to recognize GOOFY as Drive G:, and
there is no Drive F:

Is there any way (other than drive substitution) to force the system to
recognize GOOFY as F:?

Windows saves drive letter assingments once made. One per drive
and letter only but it saves.
So GOOFY will be F: until a manual change or until F: had been
used for anoter drives.

You can change the drive letter assignments in the Windows
Disk Management (Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc).
Right click on the drive -> Change drive letter

But whenever you attach GOOFY as second external drive,
Windows will assing F: again and it will save this
assingment so it will get F: assinged later even it's
attached as first drive.

For a permanent solution you need help from a 3rd party
software as my USB drive letter manager:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

With a simple USBDLM.INI you can force Windows to assing
a specific letter to the first attached drive and another
to the second one. Sample:

[DriveLetters]
Letter1=U
Letter2=V

The first attached drive gets then U: and the second V:.

If you need a specific letter for GOOFY only the you can
define drive letter by a specific criterion. Assuming
GOOFY has a drive lable 'GOOFY' and you want it a G:

;Goofy at G:
[DriveLetter1]
VolumeLabel=GOOFY
Letter=G

;all others at U: of V:
[DriveLetters]
Letter1=U
Letter2=V


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[David Mayerovitch]

Danke schön from Canada, Uwe!

David

I'm running XP Home with SP2.

My drives are set up as follows:

C: System HD
D: CD/DVD-ROM
E: CD/DVD-R/W
F: USB flash drive FIDO
G: USB flash drive GOOFY

I have now removed FIDO from the system. I want to have GOOFY recognized
as Drive F: because I have a backup program that is configured to write
files to F:

However, even after removing GOOFY, rebooting the computer and
re-inserting GOOFY, I find that the system continues to recognize GOOFY
as Drive G:, and there is no Drive F:

Is there any way (other than drive substitution) to force the system to
recognize GOOFY as F:?

Windows saves drive letter assingments once made. One per drive
and letter only but it saves.
So GOOFY will be F: until a manual change or until F: had been
used for anoter drives.

You can change the drive letter assignments in the Windows
Disk Management (Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc).
Right click on the drive -> Change drive letter

But whenever you attach GOOFY as second external drive,
Windows will assing F: again and it will save this
assingment so it will get F: assinged later even it's
attached as first drive.

For a permanent solution you need help from a 3rd party
software as my USB drive letter manager:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

With a simple USBDLM.INI you can force Windows to assing
a specific letter to the first attached drive and another
to the second one. Sample:

[DriveLetters]
Letter1=U
Letter2=V

The first attached drive gets then U: and the second V:.

If you need a specific letter for GOOFY only the you can
define drive letter by a specific criterion. Assuming
GOOFY has a drive lable 'GOOFY' and you want it a G:

;Goofy at G:
[DriveLetter1]
VolumeLabel=GOOFY
Letter=G

;all others at U: of V:
[DriveLetters]
Letter1=U
Letter2=V


Greetings from Germany

Uwe