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May 21st, 2008, 06:30 PM
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| Force Static Drive Letter - computer indifferent
I am not sure if it's possible but I might as well ask.
Done research so far, and im aware of MMC disk management.
What i am looking to do is assign a drive letter to a flash drive (X  but I want it to stay X no matter what windows-based computer i plug it into.
Is there any way to have windows ASK the flash drive "what drive letter do you want" instead of saying " heres your new drive letter, its F, D, etc." ?
Any clarification can be provided if needed. Thanks.
------ alternatively, its possible to just create an autorun file and point it at a custome Explorer-like application right? just incase the computer's explorer.exe has worms. - Just did this and it works.. at least on vista, not on xp.
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May 21st, 2008, 07:19 PM
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| AFAIK, what you're after isn't possible. You can plug the USB drive into the same computer and it would get the same letter each time it is inserted into that computer, but as this is done on a computer-by-computer basis, and it would revert back to being whatever is the next available drive letter on the next computer you plug it into.......
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May 21st, 2008, 07:20 PM
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May 22nd, 2008, 01:10 AM
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X is for mapped drives...
Plug the device in and try the following settings outlined here. How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP
Set to J.
Click the hardware icon in the task bar below and select remove device. Now plug device back into the same USB slot. Is it still J? Do not change your hard drive's drive letter ! Believe me, more headaches than its worth.
Or use this method. USB drive letter manager - USBDLM keywords: USB reserve drive letter flash MMC SD portable hard drive.
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May 22nd, 2008, 01:18 AM
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keymaker - he's asking how to make the same drive map regardless of PC
Your instructions are for one pc
IMO Its not possible, unless there was something set in the USB autostart.. that is something you can look into
maybe a simple batch file but not sure
you can use net use to map network drives to a specific letter, but not sure how to map a usb drive in Windows
(its easy in Linux seeing as you can manually mount the device to a specific folder assuming you know the device name) | |
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May 22nd, 2008, 01:20 AM
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USBDLM can't be used on PC#2?
For any computer, then yeah, some kind of batch file and script install would have to take place.
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