How can I refer to a USB by name rather than letter?

cookie_365 · 17-12-2006, 23:51

I was wondering why my backup failed today - turns out that that I was trying to back up my hard disk to my mobile phone rather than my USB drive

When I created the backup set the USB drive was drive F. Today, I plugged my phone in before the drive, so the phone was F - though I didn't realise it at the time.

Is it possible to refer to the drive by name - so instead of trying to back up to F:\backups I can set it to back up to MYUSB\backups instead?

Thanks

Druchii · 17-12-2006, 23:59

I just tried it by enabling file sharing and assigning a name to it...Didn't work,so i'm afraid i can't help

Graham M · 18-12-2006, 00:12

You can mount drives under folders on an NTFS file system, go into Disc Management (via Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management) and Unmount the USB drive and remount it under a folder and hey presto!

HTH

Edit: Forgot to mention, thus it'd be accessible by something like c:\myusb

cookie_365 · 18-12-2006, 23:30

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Originally Posted by Zeph

You can mount drives under folders on an NTFS file system, go into Disc Management (via Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management) and Unmount the USB drive and remount it under a folder and hey presto!

HTH

Edit: Forgot to mention, thus it'd be accessible by something like c:\myusb

Perfect

- exactly what I needed - and it remembers the path when I turn the drive off and on.

Thanks for the advice there Zeph

Oh, and Druchii - thanks for having a go

Graham M · 19-12-2006, 00:07

Great!

To be honest, I was just guessing based on what I've done before when fiddling around with that and it works similar to a Linux Filesystem when done like that, so I felt in familiar territory

Druchii · 19-12-2006, 00:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by cookie_365

Perfect

- exactly what I needed - and it remembers the path when I turn the drive off and on.

Thanks for the advice there Zeph

Oh, and Druchii - thanks for having a go

No problem, and cheers Zeph, i never knew about that

Kliro · 19-12-2006, 19:11

I just right clicked and selected rename...

Works on all USB sticks afaik as we had to rename all of ours.

Graham M · 19-12-2006, 19:18

But you cant then access the stick by that name...

cookie_365 · 19-12-2006, 21:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeph

Great!

To be honest, I was just guessing based on what I've done before when fiddling around with that and it works similar to a Linux Filesystem when done like that, so I felt in familiar territory

And it seems to survive a restart of XP too

Graham M · 19-12-2006, 21:44

Yep it will do. It's a complete remount of said drive