If you are using WinXp you can assign drive letters to drives under Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management.
Mark Cassino wrote: > I'm still working away at moving my photo libraries off DVD's and CD's > to external USB drives. > > Now that I'm using the external drives I'm encountering a problem - they > are mapping to whatever drive letter is available, sometimes seemingly > randomly. Thumbs plus works off of the volume name so my thumbnail > database is OK - but it's annoying to have to turn on a drive a then > have to hunt around for it. > > Drive letters are affected by the order in which the drives are turned > on, and other devices (like jumpdrives or the PD70x remote storage > device) that are hooked up in advance.) Is there a way to permanently > assign drive letters to these things? > > To give an example - I just turned on all 5 USB2 drives, with no jump > drives or other devices attached. The volume labels reflect the order in > which I would like to see the drives. The core system has drives A,C,D, > E, and F. The 5 drives that I just fired up (labeled Book01 - Book05) > mapped out as follows: > > Book01 - J: > Book02 - H: > Book03 - I: > Book04 - O: > Book05 - K: > > Any ideas how I can get these things in line? I thought there was > something int he hardware manager where you could force a drive to own a > certain letter, but I can't seem to find that. > > Thanks - > > MCC > > -- All dogs have four legs; my cat has four legs. Therefore, my cat is a dog. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
