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re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Thursday, June 16, 2005 at 9:44 am
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Posted by siblingchris (7 messages posted)



Sorry if it was unclear I think though if you read the instructions with this tool 
it will become clear!

Basically without my DAP (iRiver H140) plugged in to USB I have the following drives...

C:   First HD primary partition
D:   Second HD primary partition
E:   First HD secondary partition

With my DAP plugged in but not using DLMANIP I get...

C:   First HD primary partition
D:   Second HD primary partition
E:    DAP
F:   First HD secondary partition


I believe that this is something to do with my DAP drivers but windows sees it as 
a permanent HD rather than a removable disk so it appears amost as though its the 
"third HD primary partition" and thats just the order in which Windows 98 deals with 
things.

So I used DLMANIP and told it to reassign drive letters based on the fact I only 
have TWO permanent hard drives and the upshot is that when my DAP is plugged in the 
driver letters get swapped so I get

C:   First HD primary partition
D:   Second HD primary partition
E:    First HD secondary partition
F:   DAP


which means E: and F: are always the same drives/devices regardless of whether I 
have my DAP connected or not.

it works for me and there are other options to let you move and reassign drive letters 
for different devices. 






On Thursday, June 9, 2005 at 5:04 pm, dhm wrote:
>
>"Now everything has the same letter permanently regardless of whether they are plugged
>in or not!"
>


>That is unclear. Give an example of what drive letter you mean and what device
>is plugged and unplugged (whatever that means, USB port?) and what the before and
>after results are.
>

>




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re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (dhm: Thursday, June 9, 2005 at 5:04 pm)

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-Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (siblingchris: Thu, Jun 9, 2005, 7:59 am)
-re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (dhm: Thu, Jun 9, 2005, 5:04 pm)
*re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (siblingchris: Thu, Jun 16, 2005, 9:44 am)
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