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- Drive Letter Assignments
- I had to have the Master hard drive in my computer replaced. I was told to leave the Slave hard drive disconnected while I installed my XP OS on the Master drive, which I did. I then connected my Slave hard drive. Now the computer reads the Slave drive as...
- Tags: btljooz, computer, D, Drive Letter, F, Slave Drive, Slave Hard drive, windows
- Q&A 2005-10-13
- Windows Drive Letters
- I have a request from several users to change the way Drive info is displayed in explorer. Rather than having it display as Sharename on "server" (Drive letter:) it on Drive Letter: Share name on Server. I have yet to find any way to do this.JSI Inc.'s...
- Tags: DRIVE, Drive Letter, Microsoft Windows, windows, wmr02@...
- Q&A 2005-02-16
Additional Resources
- Physical Drive letter does not show in Disk Manager
- I have a Windows 2000 server running Raid 5. I noticed the the disk drive letter does not show in disk manager. My backup server must see this drive to complete a backup. Does anyone know how to get the drive letter to appear again. The...
- Tags: Backups, Microsoft Windows 2000, ricrayn, disk, backup, disk manager
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
- Force thumb drive or flash drive to same drive letter each time?
- I am really tired of plugging in a thumb drive and having it automatically assigned to the letter G: which is also mapped to a network drive. I have to take files off many different thumb drives each day but even the two of my own don't always maintain the...
- Tags: kripaludas@..., USB flash drive
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
- Bulk change shortcut path
- Hi Everyone,I need to change the network drive letter for two of my remote sites. I know how to change the drive letter, but that I'm trying to find out is if there is a program that will scan our roaming profile storage folder for all shortcuts refering to the...
- Tags: devvyn.satie@..., network
- Discussion threads 2007-04-10
- How do I force Windows to assign a drive letter to an external hard drive when attached?
- Here is the question I received via email. "I often recieve external hard drives containing large amounts (10-500+gb)of data from vendors. Each time I connect the drive, Windows assigns it to my G: drive which is currently mapped by GP to a network location. Is there a...
- Tags: External Hard Drive, Hard Drive, Letter, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Steven Warren
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- USB devices taking a mapped drive
- Someone is either going to know this or not ;)When you plug a usb device into a system on a network that has used the next available drive letter after hardware A,B,C,D E network driveUSB devices take the same drive letter, you have to go into My computer > Manage...
- Tags: USB flash drive
- Q&A 2005-07-12
- How to get my external hard drive to drive F
- i have been using a external hard drive(160) it has always been connected,and always came on as drive F,,now nomatter what i do it wont start as F,,Just G,,i tried connecting other devices,but for some reason all my devices are being started as set drives,,this has never happened,have i changed...
- Tags: ghstwht8@..., hard drive
- Discussion threads 2007-03-12
- Plugging in flash drive - no drive letter provided
- Each time I plug in my 2GB flash drive the laptop makes a noise to indicate the drive has been found and shows the found hardware ballon but it does not give me a drive letter and I cannot find the drive on any of the allocated drive letters.Can anyone...
- Tags: bldsm@..., "flash drive" "drive letter" "disk drive", hardware, USB flash drive
- Discussion threads 2007-02-09
- Plugging in flash drive - no drive letter provided
- Each time I plug in my 2GB flash drive the laptop makes a noise to indicate the drive has been found and shows the found hardware ballon but it does not give me a drive letter and I cannot find the drive on any of the allocated drive letters.Can anyone...
- Tags: bldsm@..., "flash drive" "drive letter" "disk drive", hardware, USB flash drive
- Discussion threads 2007-02-09
- Plugging in flash drive - no drive letter provided
- Each time I plug in my 2GB flash drive the laptop makes a noise to indicate the drive has been found and shows the found hardware ballon but it does not give me a drive letter and I cannot find the drive on any of the allocated drive letters.Can anyone...
- Tags: bldsm@..., "flash drive" "drive letter" "disk drive", windows, hardware, USB flash drive
- Discussion threads 2007-02-09
- DriveVar (exe)
- The DriveVar application was designed to help users who run applications from USB drives where the drive letter may change. It will set a system environment variable of %PA_DRV% to the drive letter of your USB drive. You can use this variable in place of the drive letter in shortcuts,...
- Tags: USB Flash Drive, Letter
- Software downloads 2008-01-23
- Drive letter
- I installed a second hard drive on my PC. I can see it in the bios as primary slave. Whaen I boot up and goto my computer its not there.How do I assign it a drive letter?
- Tags: BIOS, mrtapp1@...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-25
- Drive letter
- I installed a second hard drive on my PC. I can see it in the bios as primary slave. Whaen I boot up and goto my computer its not there.How do I assign it a drive letter?
- Tags: BIOS, mrtapp1@...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-25
- Drive letter missing
- I have two problems, they could be related.Very strange things happened:I cloned a 40G to 160G; Took out the old and installed another 40G I have been using as a data disk.The drive letter has been missing when I reboot with the cloned drive. I do not want to remove...
- Tags: balak46@..., 160G, BIOS, windows, Gig Drive, Serial ATA
- Q&A 2006-10-04
- Flash Drive Letter issue with Standard User
- Hello All.Work around for assigning new letter to flash drive through Disk Management works fine when performin this step as Local Admin or Power User. But how about for those logging into the domain with no admin rights? Is there a way to force Windows XP to assign...
- Tags: vendors@..., USB flash drive
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- Flash Drive Problem
- I put the flash drive in the usb port and windows acknowledges it by saying that your hardware is installed and ready to use in the bubble above the task bar. But the flash drive's window never opens up. When I go to My Computer it is not...
- Tags: brandon.strode@..., USB flash drive
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- Beware of hard-coding issues in Vista user folders
- Better filesystemI think Microsoft needs to drop the drive letter convention entirely. The way a *Nix does it makes much more sense, just mount everything under "/". If they want to use separate drive letters, fine, but there should only be one drive letter for local, non removable storage,...
- Tags: Justin James, software, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
- SATA drive has no drive letter and is not seen in Windows XP
- Hi,After a disk crash I rebuilt my PC loading all the software from scratch.Now I find that my single SATA drive does not appear in Windows Explorer.If I look for it in disk management I can see it, all that is missing is a drive letter. If I right click,...
- Tags: jackthehat2003@..., SATA Drive, Serial ATA, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2007-07-11
- Drive Paths in XP Device Manager
- When I change a drive to be accessed by a different letter, let's say from D: to T:, even after a restart, D: is still not available. I have two drives, 250g boot drive with 2 equally sized partitions, and a 120g storage drive with another 2 equally sized partitions....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, qwest212@..., D:"
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- Discussion threads 2007-08-26
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