Posted: 7/19/2009 8:12:52 PM EDT
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I use a laptop with several external devices, an external hardrive, SD cards, USB MP3 player, etc. I also use Windows Media Player to manage my music. The Media Player was set up with the external hard drive as the "D:" drive. Sometimes because of the order that I use devices my external drive is reassigned by the computer as "E" or "F". When the drive is not seen as "D" it screws up my music access through Media Player.
How can I manually change the assigned letter drive of the different drives and memory sources, specifically to make sure that my external hardrive stays as "D"? |
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Hang on and chill out...
Ok ok. In vista. Right click on "Computer"... select "Manage" from the menu. On the left side under "Storage" select "Disk Managment" A list of all your drives will come up in the middle. Find your external drive and right click it. Select "Change Drive Letter and Paths..." and then when the new window comes up click "Change..." enjoy. |
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Quoted: Hang on and chill out... Ok ok. In vista. Right click on "Computer"... select "Manage" from the menu. On the left side under "Storage" select "Disk Managment" A list of all your drives will come up in the middle. Find your external drive and right click it. Select "Change Drive Letter and Paths..." and then when the new window comes up click "Change..." enjoy. I can't believe you even lifted a finger with a title like that... Here you go OP:  Next time go look it up on google. |
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I use a laptop with several external devices, an external hardrive, SD cards, USB MP3 player, etc. I also use Windows Media Player to manage my music. The Media Player was set up with the external hard drive as the "D:" drive. Sometimes because of the order that I use devices my external drive is reassigned by the computer as "E" or "F". When the drive is not seen as "D" it screws up my music access through Media Player. How can I manually change the assigned letter drive of the different drives and memory sources, specifically to make sure that my external hardrive stays as "D"? One method is to hack the registry - "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices" - right click on "\DosDevices\E:" and rename it to "\DosDevices\D:". It usually will stick. I've used this method to permanently move thumb drives up to higher drive letters on networks where the sysadmin stupidly decided to assign low letters like D:, E:, F:, etc. to network shares/mapped drives. Unfortunately when a user plugs their USB drive into their single-drive workstation, XP will immediately assign it D: or E: and it will not show up in Explorer. By renaming it to "\DosDevices\J:" that USB drive will always show up as J: regardless of how many devices are plugged in. Another solution is use a small utility like USBDLM V4.3.2 that runs as background service and corrects drive letter assignments. |