Setting device to specific drive letter

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Hello All

I thought I saw something related to this recently here. Is it possible to
set up my Win98se laptop so that when I connect my external hard drive it is
always assigned to the same drive letter and my cd burner as well? Normally
my external drive goes to "E" and my cd burner to "F." But sometimes for no
reason I can understand or if I connect them in reverse order they end up
assigned to different letters, sometimes even "G" or "H."

This makes it a pain to use my Visa Versa software to backup my stuff. It
remembers where I back up to last time, but of course that doesn't work if
the drive letter changes, forcing me to drill for the new location.

Thanks.


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"Anthony Giorgianni" <pleasepostbacktothegroup@postbacktogroup.invalid> wrote in message
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> Hello All
>
> I thought I saw something related to this recently here. Is it possible to
> set up my Win98se laptop so that when I connect my external hard drive it is
> always assigned to the same drive letter and my cd burner as well? Normally
> my external drive goes to "E" and my cd burner to "F." But sometimes for no
> reason I can understand or if I connect them in reverse order they end up
> assigned to different letters, sometimes even "G" or "H."
>
> This makes it a pain to use my Visa Versa software to backup my stuff. It
> remembers where I back up to last time, but of course that doesn't work if
> the drive letter changes, forcing me to drill for the new location.

Go into Device manager, find the device and do a "Properties" on it.
Look under the "Settings" tab for "Reserved drive letters"

 

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Thank you Bill for the response.

I've tried attaching my external drive to USB and then to Firewire ports. In
each case, the proper drive letter appears but is grayed out. If I
disconnect the drive, of course, the entry disappears. So there doesn't seem
to be any way to change it that I can see.


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"Bill Blanton" <bblanton@REMOVEmagicnet.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Anthony Giorgianni" <pleasepostbacktothegroup@postbacktogroup.invalid>
wrote in message
> news:uCRwGJ$MFHA.1096@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Hello All
> >
> > I thought I saw something related to this recently here. Is it possible
to
> > set up my Win98se laptop so that when I connect my external hard drive
it is
> > always assigned to the same drive letter and my cd burner as well?
Normally
> > my external drive goes to "E" and my cd burner to "F." But sometimes
for no
> > reason I can understand or if I connect them in reverse order they end
up
> > assigned to different letters, sometimes even "G" or "H."
> >
> > This makes it a pain to use my Visa Versa software to backup my stuff.
It
> > remembers where I back up to last time, but of course that doesn't work
if
> > the drive letter changes, forcing me to drill for the new location.
>
> Go into Device manager, find the device and do a "Properties" on it.
> Look under the "Settings" tab for "Reserved drive letters"
>
>
>
>

 

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Thanks for that explanation, Bill. So far it is doing everything I need. But
I will keep it in mind.


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"Bill Blanton" <bblanton@REMOVEmagicnet.net> wrote in message
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> You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback,, I'd forgotten about
> that !minor detail.
>
> Making the drive removable, basically puts the drive in a different
> "class" of storage device (removable, fixed, remote, RAM, etc).
> Depending on what class it's in will determine what "attributes" it
> will inherit from the OS, or how programs might interact with the
> device.
>
> Autorun options, user assignable drive letters, and ME's System Restore?
> are a few examples of OS defined attributes that may be different
> between the types. It's also possible that you may run across
> programs that refuse to install to, or run from a removable device.
> Depending on how you're using the drive, that could be something
> you need to be aware of.