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Assigning a Drive letter for USB Port
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:12 -0500, "Angelo Fernandez"
wrote: How do you assign a permanent drive letter to a USB port in Vista or XP? Same answer (Feb 28) as the last time (Feb 26) you asked the exact same question: You don't. You assign it to the device that's plugged into the port. If you have more than one available port, make sure the device gets plugged into the same port every time. |
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Assigning a Drive letter for USB Port
In order to assign the device a letter, first plug it in then right click "My Computer", goto "Manage"... then goto "Disk Management" on the left.... select the drive you want on the right... and change the letter to whatever you want (that's available of course). ...but as has been stated... you're NOT changing the USB port letter... your changing the USB HDD drive letter. If you plug another USB HDD into the same port... it will get a different letter again. I haven't played with changing USB HDD drive letters around and trying different ports to see how much Vista can "remember". -- teknomedic |
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Assigning a Drive letter for USB Port
Angelo Fernandez wrote:
How do you assign a permanent drive letter to a USB port in Vista or XP? A 3rd party software is required to achive this. My "USB Drive Letter Manager" can do this. http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html You can easily define default drive letters for all USB drive. Drive letters depending on the USB port is possible too but requires some more effort. Take some minutes for reading the help file. Uwe |