Sunday, January 10, 2010

External Hard Drive External Hard Drive Question. How Do You Change Which Drive It Is On When You Connect To Your Computer?

External hard drive question. How do you change which drive it is on when you connect to your computer? - external hard drive

I have an external DVD burner, external USB hard drive and 1 GB of memory device, I have to get in touch and disconnect regularly on my computer. But every time you connect all are growing in different units. For example, sometimes when I plug the external drive is now drive F: The next time you are driving in the e:, it happens that the G: drive.

Is there a way i can Permantly in others the whole time to stay, even after you it? Can I return and have the pop on the same disc each time?

The reason I ask because all my mistakes (in some programs such as iTunes, etc. ..) are set at a particular unit. When I plug the device back and change it, then the defaults are wrong.

I know its confusing, but anyhelp would be appreciated.

6 comments:

mattster... said...

The answer is simple:
Right-click My Computer, click Manage
Bigger Disk Management
Connect the external hard drive
Click on the volume in Disk Management, then select Change drive letter.
Change it as you want.
I wish all the devices you have, get in touch, you can see what each drive letter assigned to each external device. If you already have a letter that you need, then the change after the first letter is assigned to have, then you change the words of another device.
You can also regedit, go to HKLM \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ System \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ MountedDevices
This is a list of device ID and drive mappings, simply click enrty right click Rename, and change the drive letter, but do not forget to change: according to your system and not C: drive letter, unless you want a BSOD 7b Nice at the next boot. Restart the computer for changes to the registry to take effect. Log amendments em stick better, but you can tip if you delete or rename something wrong. Make a restore point first prompt Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools - & gt; System
Good luck!

mapanako... said...

I do not think you can to connect them if you wish. When you connect an external hard drive, take the next available drive letter. The operating system assigns drive letters, essentially in chronological order.

Im not sure if dre is a utility, U, but try to find Google.

Hope this helps.

Doerr said...

If you connect more than one thing at a time the drive to

Mark n said...

Drive letters are automatically by Windows for the award of the next available. If your computer connects to your PC in the same order each time you (your PC or even let them in the appendix), then they are affected by the same letters.

You can also play in the control panel with your hardware configuration of the Device Manager and see if you can encrypt

Mark n said...

Drive letters are automatically by Windows for the award of the next available. If your computer connects to your PC in the same order each time you (your PC or even let them in the appendix), then they are affected by the same letters.

You can also play in the control panel with your hardware configuration of the Device Manager and see if you can encrypt

John B said...

Pins and change the BIOS settings to change:)

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