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Assign a permanent drive letter to external hard drive

  • 22-12-2009 11:20am
    #1
    dub45
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    A friend of mine has his itunes library on an external drive.

    He has had to rebuilt the library a couple of times because inserting other usb items such as a usb memory stick into his laptop had changed the external drive letter.

    There has to be a way to permanently assign a drive letter to an external drive?

    I presume that with the increasing use of external drives this is becoming more of an issue for people.

    He is using xp at the moment.


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  • #2
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    If you have it set to a letter like E: or F:, then it really is first come first served... If you plug in another drive it will snap up that letter.

    Your best bet is to set it to a letter lower down which won't be used by anything else (I have my iPod as I:, Western digital drive as W:, Seagate as S: etc...)
    To do this, right click on my computer, go to manage, then go to disk management and right click on the drive here and choose change drive letter/path.


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