How to assign a constant drive letter when plugging an external disk

[Pierre Lemay]

Hello everyone,

I have a maxtor external disk that I connect to my pc using afirewire cable
and the drive currently appears as letter "G". I am planning to use the
same drive on more than one computer (others will connect using USB port)
and I would like to know if there is a way to assign a pre-defined letter
when attaching the drive to a computer to make sure it will be the same
letter on all computers. For instance, would it be possible to make sure
that it will be mounted as "Y:" on all computer?

My intend is to put pictures on the disk (jpg) and used a software to
catalog them. If I catalog all the files to be somewhere under
"Y:/myphotos/...", I will be able to use the picture database on all
computers that I will mount my drive on.

thanks,

- Pierre

 

[CS]

Hello everyone,

I have a maxtor external disk that I connect to my pc using afirewire cable
and the drive currently appears as letter "G". I am planning to use the
same drive on more than one computer (others will connect using USB port)
and I would like to know if there is a way to assign a pre-defined letter
when attaching the drive to a computer to make sure it will be the same
letter on all computers. For instance, would it be possible to make sure
that it will be mounted as "Y:" on all computer?

My intend is to put pictures on the disk (jpg) and used a software to
catalog them. If I catalog all the files to be somewhere under
"Y:/myphotos/...", I will be able to use the picture database on all
computers that I will mount my drive on.

Removable Plug N Play drives (USB and Firewire) will grab the first
drive letter that's available after the system\boot drive. There's no
way to assign the drive a letter that would be constant across many
different systems.

 

[Pierre Lemay]

Just in case this would be usefull for anybody having the same
concern/problem, it appears that we can reassign a drive letter to an
already mounted disk:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-024

 

[V Green]

Just in case this would be usefull for anybody having the same
concern/problem, it appears that we can reassign a drive letter to an
already mounted disk:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-024

Much better to catalog under:

\myphotos\...

without ANY drive letter, then you'll be totally
independent of what letter the drive actually
gets.

This is how I get media files organized in .ASF playlists
to play on any media (CDR, SD, CF cards) regardless of
what drive letter gets assigned.

Of course, your picture database software must be smart enough
to deal with this.