Assign a drive letter to a USB hard drive

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• How to assign a constant name 'letter' to the USB port?

  My Compaq Presario with Windows 7 has two USB ports on the front and on the back.  I use both to the front to connect a drive hard ext to the back, usb flash drives and a camera. Everytime Iplug in the disk hard ext, the PC assigns a letter to port such as J.  The next time I plug the camera into the same port, the PC gives it a different letter and I need to go back up and reconfigre Norton where to back up.  How to assign a constant name 'letter' to the USB port?

  I think that the previous answer may have been cut off, but they were right. You assign it a letter on the USB port, you assign a letter to the device. With your drive plugged, if you right-click on the computer icon and select manage you will arrive at the computer management screen. Click the disk management icon and you should see your drive listed. Right click on that and you should see a choice to change the drive letter and path. From there, click change and select a drive letter for your device.

• How to assign different drive letter in the new hard drive?

  My hard drive for OS window is broken, which is the C: drive, so I buy a new HARD drive, but my original D: drive become a C: drive and new HARD drive is assigned with drive E:, I can't restore my Ghost in new HARD drive image, because the image is restored in the C: drive only.

  Anyone have any suggestions on how to assign different drive letter under cmd?

  Thanks in advance for your suggestions

  Hi oem7110,

  Follow the steps in the article.

  How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP

  How automatically assign a drive letter by using the Diskpart.exe command on a Windows Server 2003-based computer or on a Windows XP-based computer

• How to assign letters to the editor for USB external hard drives permanently

  I have an external USB hard drive where I store all my media files.  When I have Windows Media Player search this drive to index all my files, it indexes them in a specific directory.  I also use Media Player to sync my MP3 player using the playlist option in Media Player.  If I plug another external USB storage device until I plug the hard drive, it must be the drive letter, & if I try to sync my MP3 player, all of the flie links are broken.  Is it possible to set up a reserve of drive letter for my hard drive so that it will always be available on this hard drive when I plug?

  USB Drive Letter Manager by Uwe Sieber - http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

• When I replaced a hard drive, I wanted the same drive letter, but he wants me to take another. How can I assign the drive letter, I replaced?

  When I replaced a hard drive, I wanted the same drive letter, but he wants me to take another. How can I assign the drive letter, that I replaced. The letter is now used by another device?

  Open disk management, find the drive using the drive letter you want to use, change the drive letter of this to 'Z', find the new drive, change the drive letter that you want, and then change the drive letter of the drive you have labeled it 'Z' to a drive letter of your taste.

  Jim

• Cannot assign a drive letter using the Vista Disk Manager.

  I read these latest solutions possible, but here's my problem.  I need to connect directly a 3.5 drive I pulled a SIN of hammer to my laptop running Windows Vista... because I need to recover a folder deleted this drive 3.5 with software that only works on the directly connected motors.  Software of network recovery might work, but it seems too expensive for just the recovery of this folder.  I connected the hard drive directly via the USB port.  The system tray sees the device, but the Explorer is and of disk management to assign a drive letter is greyed out.  Please help with assigning a drive letter.  There is only one user on the laptop which is also the administrator.  Thank you!

  In my view, that Hammer NAS units are based on Linux. Therefore, the drive is probably _not_ formatted with a filesystem Windows reads/writes. Making it very difficult to recover the folder removed since all things you could do to convert to NTFS, say, will also make little probable that you can recover deleted files. Eventually, you could use one of the Linux flavors running from a DVD, for example, Ubuntu and recover the file by using a Linux tool or set the drive on a Linux machine.

  Tom

• How to assign a drive letter on a Portable device?

  I have a Canon Digital Rebel XSi and I am on Windows 7.  I would like to have the images automatically copied to my hard drive, when I connect the camera.  When I connect the camera via USB, it shows fine in portable devices.  The problem is that the path is Computer\Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi.  I can't get any third-party software to recognize as a path valid (because it does not begin with something like F:\), I can find no way to get Windows 7 to assign a drive letter to the camera directly.

  Is it possible to assign a drive letter to the camera or get a third-party software to recognize Computer\Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi as valid a path?

  Hello

  In addition to the response of Gaurav;

  Please follow this guide to change the drive letter and restart once fact: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter

  Kind regards

  Helene

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• Windows 7 does not assign a drive letter

  Windows does not automatically assign a drive letter to one of my discs usb hard or flash drives, if I go into disk management utility disk is still sitting there in line and assets and all I have to do is right click and assign a drive letter and everything works as usual. However, it is super annoying and there is no reason windows should not do this for me. I assure you there is no disc corrupt driver problems, jumpers or whatever it is out of whack, I'm a computer programmer myself. I just never fell on the situation and could not find an answer after looking here for 20 minutes and Googling autour and check other sources.

  Thanks for the help

  Open the command prompt

  type diskpart

  automount enable

  problem solved :)

• Assign the drive letter?

  Hello

  As my rocket was working well after going through the washing machine... I just bought a 2 GB Clip +.

  It works OK, but in contrast to the "rocket", he is not assigned a drive letter. On the contrary, a 'portable' dialog box appears when I plug the thing into my XP host, I select "Open the device to view files" and a window pops up that says: "My to Clip + 2 GB" I can drop files to copy to the device.

  I didn't install the applications on the CD of Sansa: this would assign a drive letter of the Clip + is connected?

  Thank you.

  Simple. Go to settings > system settings > USB Mode and set it to the MSC (Mass Storage Class).

• You need to set the drive letter to the USB Ports front before any device has been inserted - that won't change when the device is connected. I have Windows XP Professional with Visual Studio 6 installed

  You need to set the drive letter to the USB Ports front before any device has been inserted - that won't change when the device is connected. I have Windows XP Professional with Visual Studio 6 installed. Thanks for your help

  diana73,

  First of all, make sure that you're connected Administrators account to do.

  How to change a drive letter to change an existing drive letter on a drive, on a partition, or a volume, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
  2. Click Start , click run and type compmgmt.msc .
  3. In the left pane, and then click disk management .
  4. Right click on the drive, the partition, the logical drive or volume that you want to assign a drive letter to and then click change drive letter and paths .
  5. Click change .
  6. Click assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, click the drive letter that you want to use, and then click OK .
  7. Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the drive letter change.

  The letter of the drive, partition, or volume that you specified is changed, and the new drive letter is displayed in the appropriate drive, partition, or volume in the disk management tool.

  Good luck! Please rate me upward if you find my post helpful. Thank you!

• AC2400 (E8350) router cannot map USB hard drive in Windows network.

  Hi all

  I recently bought the Linksys AC2400 wireless router and a USB 3 Western Digital Elements 2 TB hard drive.

  The network works perfectly, except for the USB hard drive. The firmware on the router recognizes it okay, but in the windows network, I can't access your hard drive. I simply get a path not found error.

  I tried:

  Y access inside or outside Windows Homegroup.

  -Re - formatting in the linksys configuration (Fat32... There is room for improvement)

  -Test the USB drive directly into the PC, works perfectly and formatted in NTFS.

  -Turn off all firewalls.

  -Tried the port USB2/Esata instead of the USB3

  Also, from another computer on the network, I get the same error.

  Pre-installed on the hard drive was a mediaserver program called Twonky. He wants autoconnet to my router using port 9000, but the web interface I get then does nothing. Also when I enable the mediaserver configuration linksys website, he created a mediaserver in windows network, wth pilots twonk. But I can't change that.

  When I test the ftp server, I had access to the hard drive without any problem. This suggests that it is not a compatibility problem.

  I could also map the Windows ftp server, but that does not work on my mediaplayer, I need for this network interface.

  Does anyone have an idea of what I'm doing wrong and why windows is unable to connect to your hard drive?

  I didn't install the new version of firmware, because the changelog mentions nothing about the functions of the USB or storage.

  I've added a few photos with the settings, it could be useful.

  THX in advance for any response.

  

  Map of old-school reader:

  1. Open the file Explorer or (right click computer and 'Map network drive')
  2. Click "Map network drive" in the top menu
  3. Choose the drive letter
  4. Enter "\\192.168.1.1\" or "\\192.168.1.1\your-share-name".
  5. Add identifying information if access to the secure folder is enabled "Admin" and password

• diving USB hard drive appears on the Control Panel, but not on MY computer

  Drive hard USB part on the Contrlol Panel but not on my computer.

  Hi Frank,.

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  If I understand you correctly, the external USB hard drive (HDD) appears in the control panel but does not seem to be detected in my computer screen. I will certainly help you to question, however, I would be grateful if you could answer a few questions to refine the question in order to provide you with better assistance.

  (a) what is the brand and model number. the USB HDD?

  (b) has detected before HARD drive in my computer screen? If so, did you do changes on the computer before this problem?

  (c) that you get an unrecognized USB device notification error message?

  The unit is probably go up at the same point one of the partitions and thus becoming "invisible". In

  in order to further diagnose the issue, I would suggest trying the following methods and check if the problem persists.

  Method 1:

  Try running the Fixit tool from the link below.

  Hardware devices do not work or are not detected in Windows

  
  

  Also, run the next fixit to solve common problems with USB devices.

  Diagnose and automatically fix the Windows USB problems

  If the problem persists, try the following method.

  Method 2:

  Remove and reinstall all USB controllers.

  1. Open Manager devices by clicking the Start button, click Control Panel, click system and security, and then, under System, clicking Device Manager. If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
  2. In the list of the categories of equipment, locate and expand Bus USB controllers.
  3. Right-click every device under the Bus USB controllers node and then click Uninstall to remove them one at a time.
  4. Restart the computer and let the USB controllers get reinstalled.

  Plug in the removable USB device and perform a test to ensure that the problem is solved

  Also, refer to:

  Updated a hardware driver that is not working properly

  Hope this information is useful. Let us know if you need more help, we will be happy to help you.

• How do you assign a drive letter

  Original title: device how to assign a drive letter and or put the drive to statius online or mount a big drive to a literate player that is visible

  I have 13 terra of large drives hard and other flash drives, cards readesrs in sys I added a 3 disc terra 2ned which is not visible for terra 16 connected but its not addressable says its offline, but it is connected and 'work prpoerly' how can the system put in place to see the added disk and use the space?  a smaller drive can be removed and replaced?  or this one mounted on a different drive letter

  ?

  The provided Windows tool is disk management in the applet of the Control Panel administrative tools. Click Start-> Control Panel-> administrative tools-> management-> disk management computer.  Then locate the drive in question.  Right-click, and then click paths of access with the drive letter Change.

  If this does not work, you can try it free Easeus Partition Manager that you can download at http://easeys, com.  I got lucky with this program and Windows 7.

  I hope this helps.  Good luck.

• Windows 8 does not recognize my USB hard drive after an unsuccessful backup.

  Separated from this thread.

  tried both methods. Unfortunately does not work...

  Hi Roby,

  Thank you for the update on the related question.

  This issue may be caused if one of the many reasons as USB driver are corrupt or unstable PC requires an update for problems that could conflict with an external USB hard disk, Windows may be missing other problems hardware or software updates.

  Try these methods and check.

  Method 1: Uninstall and reinstall the USB controllers.

  Try reinstalling the Device Manager USB controllers and check.

  Uninstall and reinstall the USB controllers will not affect the USB port, as when restarting the computer/laptop as it gets reinstalled automatically.

  1. Press key Windows + X on the keyboard.
  2. Go to device Manager.
  3. Expand the Controllers USB, click drivers.
  4. Click Properties, click the Uninstall tab.
  5. Click OK.

  If the problem persists, follow method 2.

  Method 2:

  See the Microsoft support article and follow the steps.

  Install USB 3.0 and other USB devices

  Let us know if you need more assistance. We will be happy to help you.

  ____________________

  Thank you best regards &,.

  Isha Soni

• Cannot see the USB hard drive?

  Hello

  I created a new XP Pro VM environment and everything seems great so far, however, one of my devices is an external USB hard drive (this is where lies the VMX file).

  Yet I do not see it as a connected device, it is not in the list of devices to be tied down to the machine virtual host?

  Why am I unable to see this device USB of the XP Guest VM and how to make it visible?

  Thank you

  1DMF

  1. NOT to assign a USB device to the virtual computer - at least, do NOT attempt to use the disk USB us talk

  2 instead of this, make sure that you configure network between the host and guest

  3. create Windows shares on USB drive

  4. access to this sharing of the Interior of the guest

  This will result in the host beeing the only system that accesses the USB directly - which is the only safe way to do

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