Reserving drive letters

dragon2309

dragon2309

P.I Dragon
Anyone know a way to reserve a certain drive letter so windows does not use it when new devices are plugged in. Also, it has to assign the reserved drive letter to a specific device when i connect it.

Kind of the same concpet as assigning a specific IP to a MAC address but with drive letters and a specific device....

cheers, dragon
 
Under disk management, in Administrative tools you will find you can assign drive letters to certain devices when you run them through the installation wizard. The only exception is you can never change the volume of the boot drive. So, you can never change C:\ unless you boot into a different drive to begin with.

There is a removeable media section where you can assing drive letters by device UUID I assume.

If you ever run linux, this is configured under /etc/fstab
 
tlarkin said:
There is a removeable media section where you can assing drive letters by device UUID I assume.
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Yeh, thats where i checked first, but there is no option to change or fix drive letters, and care to share the location of this UUID, i cant see it anywhere obvious...

I run linux occasionally but never enough to need to do this in it
 
UUID is a unique indentification that all hardware has, similar to like a MAC address on a NIC. Typically that is how an OS indentifies hardware, it can also do it by volume name too of course. Like, if you have a usb thumb drive named homer for example, you can set the OS to mount it in a certain manner, however UUID is more reliable in case you ever end up having duplicate names.

anyways enough rambling, this is straight from the horses mouth

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844/en
 
oooh, ok, i knew about the disk management part where you could change drive letters, wasnt sure if there was an actual way to properly reserve a letter, so no other device would use it. I kinda solved it by assigning P:/ to the drive, i doubt ill have that much connected to get upto P

thanks tlarkin, you were a big help

dragon
 
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