Safely Remove Hardware Drive Letters

[Frog]

I have a USB connected hard drive that serves as my system backup
location. This drive is partitioned into Drive G and Drive H. This
external hard drive seems to be working just fine until it comes to
disconnecting it from my system (it is only on when I am making a new
backup). I click the Safely Remove Hardware Icon next to the time to
start this shut down process. The drive letters that appears in the
next window are C and E drives (internal drives that I don't turn off)
and drives F and G. The F and G drives are really my G and H drives. I
can select the F and G drives for shutdown and it informs me that it is
safe to remove this external hard drive from my system.

Question---Is the Safely Remove Hardware process a part of Windows or
some other program? If it is a part of the Windows program, how do I
make it recognize my external drives as G and H?

Windows XP SP3

Thanks for any information sent my way on this subject.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 11/3/2008 1:26 PM, and on a whim, Frog pounded out

I have a USB connected hard drive that serves as my system backup
location. This drive is partitioned into Drive G and Drive H. This
external hard drive seems to be working just fine until it comes to
disconnecting it from my system (it is only on when I am making a new
backup). I click the Safely Remove Hardware Icon next to the time to
start this shut down process. The drive letters that appears in the
next window are C and E drives (internal drives that I don't turn off)
and drives F and G. The F and G drives are really my G and H drives. I
can select the F and G drives for shutdown and it informs me that it is
safe to remove this external hard drive from my system.

Question---Is the Safely Remove Hardware process a part of Windows or
some other program? If it is a part of the Windows program, how do I
make it recognize my external drives as G and H?

Windows XP SP3

Thanks for any information sent my way on this subject.

The SRH is part of Windows.

When you have your external drive plugged in, what are the drive letters
in Disk Management(Start, Run, type diskmgmt.msc, click OK)? You may
have to change the drive letter assignments by right clicking on the drive.

I've seen CD/DVD drives listed (your E:?), but not C:.

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[Frog]

The date and time was 11/3/2008 1:26 PM, and on a whim, Frog pounded out


The SRH is part of Windows.

When you have your external drive plugged in, what are the drive letters
in Disk Management(Start, Run, type diskmgmt.msc, click OK)? You may
have to change the drive letter assignments by right clicking on the drive.

I've seen CD/DVD drives listed (your E:?), but not C:.

Thanks for the response to my question. I did as you suggested and the
drive letters now appear correctly.

To answer your question about how the drive letters in Disk Management
for my USB connected hard drive appeared---one drive with 2 partitions,
F and G. I changed Drive G to H and Drive F to G.

I have one internal hard drive (500GB) that has two partitions (C and
E). I also have a CD/DVD drive that is designated Drive D.

Thanks again for your help.

Frog

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 11/4/2008 6:11 AM, and on a whim, Frog pounded out

Thanks for the response to my question. I did as you suggested and the
drive letters now appear correctly.

To answer your question about how the drive letters in Disk Management
for my USB connected hard drive appeared---one drive with 2 partitions,
F and G. I changed Drive G to H and Drive F to G.

I have one internal hard drive (500GB) that has two partitions (C and
E). I also have a CD/DVD drive that is designated Drive D.

Thanks again for your help.

Frog

You're welcome.

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