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You only get 26 drive letters, and bad news: Normally the first three are already allocated before you start your computer! |
I have found a nice utility that will assign your USB devices to a set you want not what the OS wants. Cool!
Why it happens -
When you install/attach a physical device or memory device to your computer either through the use of a drive interface, the parallel or serial port (old school), or the USB port the OS assigns the next available
one to the device.
Running out of them is a bummer isn't it?
Constantly fighting with drive-letters every time you connect a USB device to
your computer?
Remapping those network shares after connecting a USB pen device?
Take control of those pesky things!
The precedence is give to physical devices over network or subsist drives such as your share drive on a server or when you assign say
device letter K: to your floppy device instead of A: or B:.
Lets say (as in my case) I have a device letter assigned to my network device that I use for my back up, it is the first non physical assigned device letter. When I connect one of my pen devices to my computer that network device is removed from the network and assigned to the pen device.
Now this presents a problem if the pen device is connected and the backup runs as scheduled, it will write the backup to the pen device and when it is full will error out.
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Now I will have to manually do the backup, delete all the files written to the pen device, in other words a mess.
Until I found this utility:
The Manager is a fairly easy program to install and configure. I have been using this utility for over
four
years now and very pleased with it. It passes all AV programs I run on six computers also.
This is not a free program but it only costs $15.00, not that expensive in my
opinion.
By selecting one or more characters I tell the Operating System where the
device will reside when I connect it, this has some very nice implications, if I
use a batch file to say back up certain files to the device then it will put the
files on the that device not some place else, or if I want to temporarily copy a
file I can again use a batch file to get the file and place it where I need it.
No more changing my network devices when I connect a USB device. Cool!
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