USB Drive..

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I'm using XP he SP3. I have two hard drives, partitioned into five
drives. Drive 0 is C, D and E. Drive 1 is F and G. I also have two DVDr
drives, L and M. I changed those drive letters in disk management.

When I hook up my digital camera, it becomes my H drive.

I also have two USB enclosures. One has a 500 GB SATA hard drive and the
other one has a 80 GB IDE drive. When I start either one of those, they
also became the H drive. I didn't like that so I renamed the 500 GB
drive to I and the 80 GB drive to J.

I don't boot with the USB drives turned on so they don't retain the
drive letters I assigned them. Sometimes they do. Is there anything I
can do to have these two drives remember the drive letters I've assigned
to them?
 
JD said:
I'm using XP he SP3. I have two hard drives, partitioned into five drives.
Drive 0 is C, D and E. Drive 1 is F and G. I also have two DVDr drives, L
and M. I changed those drive letters in disk management.

When I hook up my digital camera, it becomes my H drive.

I also have two USB enclosures. One has a 500 GB SATA hard drive and the
other one has a 80 GB IDE drive. When I start either one of those, they
also became the H drive. I didn't like that so I renamed the 500 GB drive
to I and the 80 GB drive to J.

I don't boot with the USB drives turned on so they don't retain the drive
letters I assigned them. Sometimes they do. Is there anything I can do to
have these two drives remember the drive letters I've assigned to them?
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Google would have found you this in no time:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
 
Twayne said:
Not necessarily; depends on what he used for search terms.
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Obviously. If he (or indeed she) had searched for "best rice pudding
recipe", OP may even *never* have found that site. Perhaps when I said
simply "Google..." I should have made it absolutely crystal clear that it
was a form of shorthand by which I meant "Using the well-known and popular
Web search engine Google, to be found at www.google.com, and entering
intelligently-thought-out key words that characterise your problem and/or
the solution you seek..."

However, one has to make some assumptions. The first two Google results with
the terms "usb drive letter keep" point to the site I cited.
 
I'm using XP he SP3. I have two hard drives, partitioned into five
drives. Drive 0 is C, D and E. Drive 1 is F and G. I also have two DVDr
drives, L and M. I changed those drive letters in disk management.

When I hook up my digital camera, it becomes my H drive.

I also have two USB enclosures. One has a 500 GB SATA hard drive and the
other one has a 80 GB IDE drive. When I start either one of those, they
also became the H drive. I didn't like that so I renamed the 500 GB
drive to I and the 80 GB drive to J.

I don't boot with the USB drives turned on so they don't retain the
drive letters I assigned them. Sometimes they do. Is there anything I
can do to have these two drives remember the drive letters I've assigned
to them?
Click to expand...

I have a similar set-up on my desktop computer. I try to have the onboard
drives as the first drive letters, and the rtemovable ones as the last

So Drive 0 is C
Drive 1 is D, E, F, and G
DVD 0 is H
DVD 1 is I

Flash drive is J.
USB hard drive is K.

I use the removable drives on my laptop as well, where the flash frive is E,
and the USB hard drive is still K.

They sometimes lose drive lettyers if I plug in another drive first - say a
friend's flash drive, and then my own USB thinks it 's F, and I have to reset
it to E.

I have two flash drives, which I use to transfer data files between the two
computers, and as long as I don't try to plug in both at the same time they
seem to remember their drive letters - J on the dsktop, E on the laptop.
 
Olórin said:
Obviously. If he (or indeed she) had searched for "best rice pudding
recipe", OP may even *never* have found that site.
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LMAO !

(Now I have to wipe the coffee off my monitor, thank you.)
 
Olórin said:
Obviously. If he (or indeed she) had searched for "best rice pudding
recipe", OP may even *never* have found that site. Perhaps when I said
simply "Google..." I should have made it absolutely crystal clear that it
was a form of shorthand by which I meant "Using the well-known and popular
Web search engine Google, to be found at www.google.com, and entering
intelligently-thought-out key words that characterise your problem and/or
the solution you seek..."

However, one has to make some assumptions. The first two Google results with
the terms "usb drive letter keep" point to the site I cited.
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He, the original poster didn't check Google first. He uses Ask.com. But
he didn't check there either. He just came and ask in this newsgroup and
the sad part is he's not real sure how to use the information he found
in the link posted by you. Sorry, he, the original poster, is not the
brightest bulb in the box. ;-)

Do you and Twayne have something going on?
 
He, the original poster didn't check Google first. He uses Ask.com. But he
didn't check there either. He just came and ask in this newsgroup and the
sad part is he's not real sure how to use the information he found in the
link posted by you. Sorry, he, the original poster, is not the brightest
bulb in the box. ;-)

Do you and Twayne have something going on?
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The idea is to use the USBDLM tool ("USB Drive Letter Manager") and let that
assign the letters. Download it, unzip it, tweak the usbdlm.ini file (with
Notepad, it's just a text file) to suit you, and away you go. I can do no
more than recommend a thorough reading of the page and the tool's helpfile.
Good luck!
 
Olórin said:
The idea is to use the USBDLM tool ("USB Drive Letter Manager") and let that
assign the letters. Download it, unzip it, tweak the usbdlm.ini file (with
Notepad, it's just a text file) to suit you, and away you go. I can do no
more than recommend a thorough reading of the page and the tool's helpfile.
Good luck!
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I looked though all this and I can't figure out the usbdlm.ini file.
It's not very clear to me.

I have two USB cases that contain hard drives that I have assigned the
drive letter I and J. Where do I enter that in the .ini file?
 
JD said:
I looked though all this and I can't figure out the usbdlm.ini file.
It's not very clear to me.

I have two USB cases that contain hard drives that I have assigned the
drive letter I and J. Where do I enter that in the .ini file?
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USBDLM needs a criteria to identify each drive.
Using the drive's device ID is easy for USBDLM,
using the drives volume label is easy for the
user :-)
Ok, let's make it easy for the user...
Assuming the drive have the volume labels
BACKUP_1 and BACKUP_2, enter this to the USBDLM.INI:

[DriveLetters10]
VolumeLabel=BACKUP_1
Letter=I

[DriveLetters20]
VolumeLabel=BACKUP_2
Letter=J

;other USB drives on U, V, or W
;(to prevent I and J from beeing used)
[DriveLetters]
Letters=U,V,W

You can change the volume label by right clicking
the drive, select Properties.
Single clicking the drive or pressing F2 does _not_
change the volume label, it's a registry setting
only.


Uwe
 
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