S
Stephen Ford
WinXP SP2 (up to date with Win Update)
I have a problem where a third party device when plugged into a USB port
becomes accessible via a drive letter it creates and the drive letter
conflicts with an existing drive letter.
My PC has one HDD in three partitions and there is a CD drive. So the drive
letters are C:, D:, E: & F:
I use the following batch file at start up
echo on
subst H: D:\
subst J: D:\data
subst K: "D:\DATA\Acquire Home Services"
subst L: D:\DATA\Paradox
subst M: "D:\DATA\WP9 App data"
subst N: "C:\Documents and Settings\Office\Application
Data\Corel\PerfectExpert\9\Custom WP Templates"
Pause
exit
When the device is plugged in it creates "Removable Disk (G
" &
"TomTom(H
". the H: conflicts with the H: drive created by the batch file.
Yes, it's a TomTom sat.nav.
My initial discussion with TomTom support resulted in the comment "it's
Windows that creates the drive and causes the conflict, not TomTom". I can
believe it's feasible but I wonder if there is such a hole in the O/S such
that it tramples over drives created by the SUBST command. What might be
going on?
I have a problem where a third party device when plugged into a USB port
becomes accessible via a drive letter it creates and the drive letter
conflicts with an existing drive letter.
My PC has one HDD in three partitions and there is a CD drive. So the drive
letters are C:, D:, E: & F:
I use the following batch file at start up
echo on
subst H: D:\
subst J: D:\data
subst K: "D:\DATA\Acquire Home Services"
subst L: D:\DATA\Paradox
subst M: "D:\DATA\WP9 App data"
subst N: "C:\Documents and Settings\Office\Application
Data\Corel\PerfectExpert\9\Custom WP Templates"
Pause
exit
When the device is plugged in it creates "Removable Disk (G

"TomTom(H

Yes, it's a TomTom sat.nav.
My initial discussion with TomTom support resulted in the comment "it's
Windows that creates the drive and causes the conflict, not TomTom". I can
believe it's feasible but I wonder if there is such a hole in the O/S such
that it tramples over drives created by the SUBST command. What might be
going on?