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Reassigning hard drive (by letter)
I have an external hard drive I have been hooking up to my laptop which has been working fine for months as drive E. I got a new camera for Christmas, and even when it isn't plugged in it has assigned itself to drive E and jumped my external hard drive up to F. I realize all of my files are still stored, but is there anyway I can re assign my hard drive back to E so I don't have to change all of my shortcuts? It's making iTunes especially difficult.... -Aidan |
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Reassigning hard drive (by letter)
aidan707 wrote:
I have an external hard drive I have been hooking up to my laptop which has been working fine for months as drive E. I got a new camera for Christmas, and even when it isn't plugged in it has assigned itself to drive E and jumped my external hard drive up to F. I realize all of my files are still stored, but is there anyway I can re assign my hard drive back to E so I don't have to change all of my shortcuts? It's making iTunes especially difficult.... -Aidan This guy offers tools and advice (he visits microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware every so often). I don't have any experience with this one, but maybe it can help. http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html Paul |
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Reassigning hard drive (by letter)
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:34:22 -0600, aidan707
wrote: I have an external hard drive I have been hooking up to my laptop which has been working fine for months as drive E. I got a new camera for Christmas, and even when it isn't plugged in it has assigned itself to drive E and jumped my external hard drive up to F. I realize all of my files are still stored, but is there anyway I can re assign my hard drive back to E so I don't have to change all of my shortcuts? It's making iTunes especially difficult.... -Aidan In windows go into Computer Management - Drive Management. Click on the volume in the top right hand panel to highlight it, right-click it and "Change Drive Letter" (or similar wording). If the camera (or dock or something else) is shown in Disk Management as having the drive letter you wanted for the extrenal drive, you may first have to reassign the device using the letter you want to have freed up for reassignment to the external drive). IOW, support you saw a device using E, you could temporarily assign that device to Z temporarily, then assign the external drive to E now that E is available, then reassign the device you had temporarily assigned to Z, to F now that the external is not F anymore. |
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