HD Labels

[Dave]

In addition to the standard A & C drives, I have an additional HD
partitioned into drives D & E, plus 2 additional removable disc
drives F & G. Occasionally, I add an external HD (USB) temporarily for
backup purposes.

Initially, the external HD was set as the H drive. Somewhere along the way,
my comp decided this drive should be the I drive, and added a new mysterious
removable drive which it decided to call H. The H drive now insists I
should inset a disk every time I try to do something with it.

How do I get rid of this H drive, and get my external back to being the H
drive?

Win XP SP2

Thx
Dave

 

[GHalleck]

In addition to the standard A & C drives, I have an additional HD
partitioned into drives D & E, plus 2 additional removable disc
drives F & G. Occasionally, I add an external HD (USB) temporarily for
backup purposes.

Initially, the external HD was set as the H drive. Somewhere along the way,
my comp decided this drive should be the I drive, and added a new mysterious
removable drive which it decided to call H. The H drive now insists I
should inset a disk every time I try to do something with it.

How do I get rid of this H drive, and get my external back to being the H
drive?

Win XP SP2

Thx
Dave

With the external HD plugged into the computer, open Disk Management
from the Control Panel. Check the drive letters against the hardware.
If there is no Drive H and the current Drive I is the original Drive H,
then re-assign Drive H to it. OTOH, if there is a Drive H that is there,
then what is it? If real, then its drive letter can also be assigned to
something different, making it possible to return Drive H to the external
HD.

 

[LVTravel]

If you added a USB printer that has a card reader on it, that could be your
mysterious H drive. Do as GHalleck advised, go into drive management,
reassign the H drive to a higher, unused drive letter and then reassign the
I drive to the H letter.

Let us know if this is the case and it solves your issue. Thanks.

 

[Dave]

BINGO -
Right on - I never would have figured that one out in a thousands years.

Sure enough, my printer died and was replaced with one (USB) which has
camera card slots. I have no use for the camera interface feature, so never
gave it a thought.

Thank you all - very impressive !!!

Dave

 

[LVTravel]

Glad to have helped and thanks for the reply back. Lets us know that we are
sometimes on the right track.