trackrat Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 Not so much a problem as a general inquiry.I have 3 removable drives on my computer. H, I & J, if I plug a USB pen drive in and boot the computer it picks it up as drive H and moves all the other removable drives down one letter, is there any way to lock the drive letters so if I leave the pen drive in this does not happen.OS is XP Home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4may Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 I believe you can set the Drive letters you wish to use using the 'Disk Management' of the Computer management services Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 I solved a similar problem by changing my additional hard drives to letters M: and N: so they did not change when plugging in another device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 Are your removable drives USB and if so when you disconnect them and reconnect do they always keep the same letter? Is it just the pen drive that wants to hog first place? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted January 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 I have an IOMEGA Floppy/Card reader, which takes up the A, H & I drive letters, I also have a back up drive which generally takes up J, but this is not switched on all the time.When I put a pen drive in any of the USB ports and boot up, in my computer it alters the H drive to J and the pen drive takes up H.If I put the USB pen drive in when windows is running it just assigns the next letter available.As I said in my first post it is not a problem, I was just curious if the drive letters that were allready assigned could be locked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 When I plug in my camera, it always becomes drive G. I have just had a new plug in hard drive, and with or without the camera being plugged in that automatically assume drive H as it's name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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