USB Drive Letter Assignment

[P. J. Alling]

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
>
>   


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