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Skriven 2007-02-17 23:13:00 av ED VANCE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAN CEPPA
Ärende: USB ?
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DC>-> On 16 Feb 07  14:29:00, ED VANCE got back to JEAN PARROT
DC>-> Re: USB ?

DC> EV> When You added the USB External Hard Drive to your system(s) did it
DC> EV> move the CD/DVD letter up a notch?

DC> EV> The reason I'm asking is I am planning on getting a USB External HD
DC> EV> for backing up someday.

DC>If you are running XP you can set drive letters.  The new drive should
DC>not affect prior existing drives.  Your only problem would be if you
DC>add additional externals or partition the USB drive.  Swapping them
DC>in and out would probably mess things up.

DC>Another thing you can do is set the CDR to something like drive: Z
DC>That way it won't be changed under most earlier OSs either. I
DC>know ME allows that.  I'm not sure about Win9x though.

Dan,

I have 3 USB thumb drives.

I have named them using the LABEL command from a CMD prompt while at
each thumb drives Prompt.

XP has remembered which drive letter each one of them WAS assigned, I
guess, because I can plug any one of them in any USB socket, either on
the front panel or either of the 2 four port USB hubs I have connected
to the box, and the drive letter assigned while looking at My Computer
is always the same for that particular thumb drive.

J: ,  K:  and  L: are the 3 drive letters that are used.

If I plug in the thumb drive that in the past has been used as the
letter L:, IT WILL BE L: AGAIN.

Even if there are no drives letters showing after the letter I:, it will
be given L: when it is plugged in any USB socket.

Strange, because I haven't assigned any drive letters to any devices,
A: is my Floppy Drive.
C: and D: are the 2 partitions on my HD.
E: is the CD/DVD-RW drive
F: , G: , H:  and  I: are the slots for the Compact Flash, SD etc. etc.
slots on the front of the box for those Flash Cards.

Why it always uses L: or K: or J: for each particular Thumb drive I
don't know.

I just scratch my head and acredit it as a learning experience.  :-[


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