Jan 17, 2007 05:57 am Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management
drive naming problem
Posted on Jan 17, 2007 04:04 am
fortymile
Member Since: Jan 18, 2003
dumb question:
uncle gave me a little flash thumb drive with some stuff on it for christmas. plugged into a free USB port, and now my music drives come up with new letter names, even with the thumb drive removed. this means my software can't find the locations of certain files. how can i get my 'j' drive to go back to being the 'g' drive. can i just rename it or something? if so, how? and why did this happen? the thumb drive's gone but this still occurs....
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Jan 17, 2007 05:57 am Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management
Jan 17, 2007 12:08 pm Are your music drives external? If so, what I would do is give them drive letters that are a little further away from your main drives/CD drives (like X, Y, & Z for instance). The way windows decides on the letter-assignment for external drives is kind of stupid: it just goes down the USB bus (redundant, I know) and assigns in alphabetical order. This screws up lots of fun stuff if you have one or more external drives.
Jan 17, 2007 04:48 pm yes, they're external. good idea, naming them x, etc.
but can i DO that now, after the fact?
i will remember that for next time i get a drive, but if i do it now, many old projects will aquire suddenly orphaned files (pointing to drive 'g') and i don't want to change all that as they continue to pop up for years.
so db, your little tree there: when i get to the end of it, what do i do?
Jan 17, 2007 05:05 pm Fortymile - You COULD change the letters, then mount the drive as the "G" drive for instance (open up any folder, "tools-map network drive-(etc.)" and map whatever used to be your G drive as the new G drive... basically, telling your computer that the "X" drive is the "G" drive, so anything pointing to "G:\blah" actually re-routs to "X:\blah". it's a sweet way to organize your computer too, btw, as long as you don't try to delete crazy stuff or something :p
Jan 17, 2007 07:58 pm forty, you also have to remember to disconnect it with the little icon at the bottom right in the task bar. If you don't it holds that letter until you reboot. And sometimes it wont release it even after a reboot. I never plug a USB flash drive in until the PC is fully booted, then it will or should assign the drive an un-used drive letter.
An as I stated above, I always disconnect it before I shut down the PC.
Jan 18, 2007 04:26 am starting...to see...why windows...is retarded.
thanks guys. took db's advice; fixed. noize: will remember in future.
Feb 01, 2007 05:02 am ok, it happened again. now i'm mad. is there some way to lock my drive letter name to G? someone mentioned something about naming it after an 'end letter' like Z or something. i don't want to, though, because this drive has tons of 'g' associations already. i want to lock it as g. if windows doesn't allow this, i think i've had it. maybe it's MAC TIME.
Feb 01, 2007 05:50 am I dunno about locking the letter, but it is weird it keep changing, I've never had that happen like this...
Feb 02, 2007 01:55 pm well i didn't do what noize recommended, you know, manually ejecting the drive. looks like i hooked up my ipod first one day (the drive is usually left offline) and the ipod stole the 'g' name. after that, i couldnt get my external back to g until i did the renaming thing.
oh well
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