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re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Sunday, December 30, 2001 at 5:14 pm
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Posted by mgoodrich (1 messages posted)

Yes, sometimes we need to assign a drive letter so backup utilities or other functions will always be directed to the proper drive regardless of what else is running in Windows Explorer. This is a very easy fix: the following is from the Windows Help Files. Look in Help often for answers to your questons. Many times the information you need is right there! "To change the drive letter assignment for a disk or CD-ROM drive to open the System Properties dialog box. Click the Device Manager tab. Click the plus sign next to the type of drive, and then double-click the disk or CD-ROM drive for which you want to change the letter. Click the Settings tab. Under Reserved drive letters, change the drive letter assignment. Notes You can also open the System Properties dialog box by clicking Start, pointing to Settings, clicking Control Panel, and then double-clicking System. If the option to change the drive letter assignment is unavailable, you cannot change the drive letter." -------======--------

On Saturday, December 29, 2001 at 2:44 pm, P McDougall wrote:
>I have a question about Designate
>Your Own Drive Letters:

>
>I am Looking for a way to control Drive Letter assignments for USB devices, flash
>card readers inparticular. The problem is that the Drive Letter assignment for the
>internal CD drive keeps changing depending on the number of "hot swappable" USB devices.
> Then installed Software that reqires a CDR cannot find the CD.
>
>The CD drive is reserved to "E" but it gets bumped up anyway to "G" for example.
> If "E" is reserved shouldn't it always be the letter for the CD Drive?
>
>The Reserved Drive Letters box is disabled for the USB devices and I am continuing
>to investigate a way to change these as suggested in this article.
>
>Thank you for any help you can provide.

Written in response to:
Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (P McDougall: Saturday, December 29, 2001 at 2:44 pm)

Responses to this message:
re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Alistair Beaton: Monday, July 1, 2002 at 3:43 am)

re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (joshua: Monday, September 30, 2002 at 10:43 am)

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Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (P McDougall: Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 2:44 pm)

re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (carl: Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 3:45 pm)

re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (mgoodrich: Sun, Dec 30, 2001, 5:14 pm)

re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Alistair Beaton: Mon, Jul 1, 2002, 3:43 am)

is this you?! (Lynne: Thu, Jun 26, 2003, 2:53 pm)

re: is this you?! (Alistair Beaton: Tue, Jul 1, 2003, 4:15 pm)

re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (joshua: Mon, Sep 30, 2002, 10:43 am)

re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Rikki: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 9:47 pm)

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