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Old 04-10-2008, 20:53   #6
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Re: XP keeping changed drive letter - help

Random Hom3r to the rescue.

I have several External usb drives, I tried the attached link (as well as key info incase link goes bad) it worked.

Note that you will get warning messages

http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTec...13/113922.aspx

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Open an explorer window, and right-click "My Computer", then select "Manage"

On the left-hand side, you'll find "Storage" and under that will be, among other things, "Disk Management" ... select that.

This will show your drives and partitions. This looked very familiar to me, but I can't remember the reason I had to be out there before, maybe next time I'll remember how to get there quicker!

In the upper part of the right-hand display, right-click the USB drive you have installed, then select "Change Drive Letter and Paths..."

On the dialog that comes up, select "Change..." then select your drive letter of choice from the combo box and press OK.

You'll get a warning message, but that's just in case you are changing the drive letter of a disk that you have software installed to, so press "Yes" on that dialog. You are back to the Disk Management dialog now, and your newly selected drive letter is showing for your USB drive. Close this dialog, and you're done.
---------- Post added at 19:53 ---------- Previous post was at 19:17 ----------

It does work I've assigned drives to the following, using some logic, these will only work on the PC used to assign the letter (I will double check later by plugging in another PC)

L: 40GB HDD
M: Multi-media drive for Xbos360
P: PSP
S: Moblie Phone
T: Moblie Phone 4GB card
W: Work
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