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Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
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Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Saturday, December 29, 2001 at 2:44 pm
Posted by P McDougall
(1 messages posted)
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.
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re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Saturday, December 29, 2001 at 3:45 pm
Posted by carl
(316 messages posted)
I do not have any drive letters reserved and all drives stay the same
and my usb camera goes to g. What difference does it make what letter it is anyway?
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.
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re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Sunday, December 30, 2001 at 5:14 pm
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."
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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.
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re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Monday, July 1, 2002 at 3:43 am
Posted by Alistair Beaton
(29 messages posted)
I have the same problem as P McDougall. In my case it appears to be a fairly recent
development. I have a DVD Rom drive which was designated 'E' and a CD re-writer designated
'F', which I use for backups. I also have a Lexar multi-media USB reader which I
leave permanently connected. This used the drive letters 'G' and 'H' for Smart Media
and Compact Flash cards. Now the Lexar reader grabs 'E' and 'F' on booting. I have
tried all the solutions suggested on the Annoyances website, using Device Manager
and regedit. 'Config.sys' and 'autoexec.bat' are disabled on startup - they contain
nothing relevant anyway. When the card reader is disconnected the DVD and CD R/W
drive letters are as required but as soon as I plug in the card reader the next bootup
switches the drive letters again. I have tried removing the Lexar drivers before
re-designating the drive letters then re-installing the Lexar. I found and installed
a newer Lexar driver without any improvement.
On Sunday, December 30, 2001 at 5:14 pm, mgoodrich wrote:
>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."
>
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>
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re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Monday, September 30, 2002 at 10:43 am
Posted by joshua
(1 messages posted)
Thanks for the advice - worked exactly as you specified on a Windows 98 system. Using
an Olympus Camedia USB camera. It looked to me like the camedia software bumped a
mapped drive off and "stole" its drive letter - anyone else observed this?
On Sunday, December 30, 2001 at 5:14 pm, mgoodrich wrote:
>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."
>
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>
>
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is this you?!
Thursday, June 26, 2003 at 2:53 pm
Posted by Lynne
(1 messages posted)
I came across this quite by accident. Is this the wonderful Alistair Beaton I know
of old via London Management?!
Do tell!
L
x
On Monday, July 1, 2002 at 3:43 am, Alistair Beaton wrote:
>I have the same problem as P McDougall. In my case it appears to be a fairly recent
>development. I have a DVD Rom drive which was designated 'E' and a CD re-writer
designated
>'F', which I use for backups. I also have a Lexar multi-media USB reader which I
>leave permanently connected. This used the drive letters 'G' and 'H' for Smart Media
>and Compact Flash cards. Now the Lexar reader grabs 'E' and 'F' on booting. I have
>tried all the solutions suggested on the Annoyances website, using Device Manager
>and regedit. 'Config.sys' and 'autoexec.bat' are disabled on startup - they contain
>nothing relevant anyway. When the card reader is disconnected the DVD and CD R/W
>drive letters are as required but as soon as I plug in the card reader the next
bootup
>switches the drive letters again. I have tried removing the Lexar drivers before
>re-designating the drive letters then re-installing the Lexar. I found and installed
>a newer Lexar driver without any improvement.
>
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re: is this you?!
Tuesday, July 1, 2003 at 4:15 pm
Posted by Alistair Beaton
(29 messages posted)
I wish it was! I did not know my name was so common but I have seen it up in lights
above a West End theatre as the author of the play, as the by-line in a Scottish
newspaper - and now this, which really takes the biscuit. Unfortunately, although
I am indeed the wonderful Alistair Beaton, I cannot claim to be the author of a play,
a newspaper reporter or, more's the pity, your long-lost friend. Although I was born
in London and had a lot of business in London over many years I have lived most of
my life in Scotland. I am intrigued to know who this other namesake is, but I suspect
that if we carry on this correspondence we will become one of the Annoyances!
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 at 2:53 pm, Lynne wrote:
>
>I came across this quite by accident. Is this the wonderful Alistair Beaton I know
>of old via London Management?!
>
>Do tell!
>
>L
>x
>
>
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re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 9:47 pm
Posted by Rikki
(1 messages posted)
Windows XP and 2000 use MountMgr to manage drive letters. The weird thing about 2K/XP
is that, unlike Windows 98 or ME where hard drives are assigned letters first, Windows
XP and 2000 assign the next available drive letter to each device added, regardless
of type. For instance, when I two CD-ROMs added before newest Hard Drive , the CD-ROMs
had letters D: and E: while the new drive letters started at F:.
The good news is that drive letters can be manually changed using Disk Management
under the Administrative Tools, with some exceptions. For details, here's a Microsoft
Knowledgebase entry for this problem:
How to Assign a Drive Letter
To assign a drive letter to a drive, partition, or volume:
Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.
NOTE: If you do not see Performance and Maintenance, go to step 3. Performance and
Maintenance is displayed in Control Panel only if you use Category view. If you use
Classic view, Performance and Maintenance does not appear.
Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then in the left
pane, click Disk Management.
Right-click the drive, partition, logical drive, or volume for which you want to
assign a drive letter, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
Click Add.
Click Assign the following drive letter (if it is not already selected), either accept
the default drive letter or click the drive letter that you want to use, and then
click OK.
The drive letter is assigned to the drive, partition, or volume that you specified,
and is displayed in the appropriate drive, partition, or volume in the Disk Management
tool.
How to Change a Drive Letter
To change an existing drive letter on a drive, partition, or volume:
Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.
Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then in the left
pane, click Disk Management.
Right-click the drive, partition, logical drive, or volume for which you want to
assign a drive letter, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
Click Change.
Click Assign the following drive letter (if it is not already selected), click the
drive letter that you want to use, and then click OK.
Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the drive letter change.
The drive letter of the drive, partition, or volume that you specified is changed,
and the new drive letter is displayed in the appropriate drive, partition, or volume
in the Disk Management tool.
How to Remove a Drive Letter
To remove an existing drive letter on a drive, partition, or volume:
Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.
Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then in the left
pane, click Disk Management.
Right-click the drive, partition, logical drive, or volume for which you want to
assign a drive letter, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
Click Remove.
Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the removal.
The drive letter is removed from the drive, partition, or volume that you specified.
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Troubleshooting
When you attempt to change an existing drive letter, you receive the following error
message:
The volume volume_label drive_letter is currently in use.
If you continue, the new drive letter will be assigned; but you can still use the
old drive letter to access the volume until you restart your computer. The old drive
letter will not be available for assignment until you restart.
Warning: Changing the drive letter of a volume might cause programs to no longer
run.
This error message can occur if there are files in use on the drive, partition, or
volume. This includes files that are accessed by other people on the network. To
resolve this behavior, use one of the following methods:
Click No when you receive the error message. Quit all programs that are using the
files on the volume, and then change the drive letter (right-click the volume, click
Change Drive Letter and Paths, and then click Change).
Click Yes to proceed with the drive letter change.
When you attempt to remove an existing drive letter, you receive the following error
message:
The volume volume_label drive_letter is currently in use.
If you continue, the drive letter will be freed; however, it will still be available
for use until you restart your computer.
Warning: Changing the drive letter of a volume might cause programs to no longer
run.
This error message can occur if there are files in use on the drive, partition, or
volume. This includes files that are accessed by other people on the network. To
resolve this behavior, use one of the following methods:
Click No when you receive the error message. Quit all programs that are using the
files on the volume, and then remove the drive letter (right-click the volume, click
Change Drive Letter and Paths, and then click Remove).
Click Yes to remove the drive letter the next time you start your computer.
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.
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