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| 690523 | 2008-07-20 09:46:00 | Is it possible to assign a fixed driver letter to a removable HDD? This HDD is mainly used for backing up in 2 machines, one XP Pro and the other Vista Ultimate. Cheers |
bk T (215) | ||
| 690524 | 2008-07-20 10:12:00 | In both XP and Vista you can manually assign drive letters to volumes to help with (semi-)automated tasks that relate to directory/file paths. I'm pretty sure manually setting them helps this along however I've found after a while it becomes undone. Give it try though as YRMV. Right-click (My) Computer and select Manage (www.imagef1.net.nz). From the left pane of Computer Management select Disk Management near the bottom (www.imagef1.net.nz). Wait a few seconds then select the volume you would like to assign a drive letter to and choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths...". The rest is pretty straight forward, just remember to free up a drive letter you would like to use if it's already in use. |
sal (67) | ||
| 690525 | 2008-07-20 10:52:00 | I can manually assign a drive letter but when I plug it to another machine, the drive letter changes automatically. Is it possible to fix a drive letter, say, "Y" and to which ever machine I connect it, the drive letter will be "Y". |
bk T (215) | ||
| 690526 | 2008-07-20 10:57:00 | If you want it to be Y, you'll have to change it to Y on every single computer you plug it into | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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