Re: [Simply Computers] How do you ensure a hard drive always keeps the SAME drive letter please ?

 

Hi Norm,

There is one way I can think of, but it's pretty extreme. Microsoft's free TweakUI will let you disable drive letters, so you could disable all the unused drive letters between the last one that the computer is assigning and the one you want to use.

In the example given, where the person wanted the external drive always to be X:, they could disable all the unused drive letters in between.

This is not something most people would want to do ... for one thing, it's easy to forget that you disabled the drive letters, and then when you plug in a new device, and it gets a weird drive letter (like Y:) you won't know why. And you might not remember how to fix it.

Also, if you make the first available drive letter X:, then that only leaves you two other choices for other devices, should you want to plug them in.

So, pretty extreme, but I think it would work.

rogerX

--- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, Norm Higgs <norm@...> wrote:
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> You can't make it automatically come up with the same letter every time,
> because that is a system function. BUT, all versions of Windows allows
> you to re-assign drive letters (with the exception of the system/boot
> drive).
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> Once its plugged in and shows up in Explorer, you can re-assign it
> whatever letter you want.
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> On 2011-06-26 9:32 AM, Chris wrote:
> > Has anyone found a way of an external usb hard drive keeping the hard
> > drive letter please? On one machine with win xp pro, the drive is X, on
> > the laptop with win xp home, it's Z, but I need it to always be the same
> > letter, preferably X
> >
> > Any help really appreciated.
> >
> > Chris
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