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Questions tagged [drive-letter]

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How to assign permanent drive letters to removable USB hard drives

I have scripts that expect specific drive letters for hard drives. Windows sometimes assigns the different drive letters (e.g. I expected my Maxtor drive to be E:, but it's now F:, therefore my scripts will fail), depending on the order of how the…
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How to remove "phantom" drive letters?

I recently attached two GPT-formatted USB hard drives to my Win10 workstation. I had to update the BCD store on them so I used Diskpart to assign letters S: and T: to the EFI partitions on the drives. Now I have two phantom drive letters S: and T:…
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How do I map a local path to a drive letter in Windows 7?

I am coding on something and want to map \cygwin\home\bob\code\ to U: drive letter. When I try to map it using net use C:\cygwin\home\bob\code\ U: /P:yes , but it gave the following error: System error 67 has occurred The network name cannot be…
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How do I make an external hard drive keep the same drive letter permanently?

I have a desktop PC (2002 vintage) running Windows XP that I turn on about two or three times per week. I have a mains powered 250 GB Western Digital hard disk connected to it via USB. I always turn the hard disk on before the PC, so it's up and…
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How to limit Drive Letters Windows assigns to new removable USB drives

Currently Windows (all of the versions) assigns the first available letter to the next removable media you insert into your USB drive. Is there a way to go around this to make Windows assign only letters that are in the interval you want (for…
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Can I install Windows 7 in A:\ or B:\ partition names?

Some years ago (actually decades now), when Windows 95 (or even 3.11) came, "A:\" and "B:\" partition names were reserved to the old magnetic removable discs (also known as Floppy Disks). However, today it is a forgotten standard and we don't see…
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Is there any way to ensure that a specific USB key always gets the same drive letter?

Depending on what's currently connected to a PC, a USB key does not always get the same drive letter. This is an issue for me because I want to use this key as a backup destination, and I thus have to change the path that's used from time to…
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Is it possible to mount a volume to a custom drive prefix, e.g. "myDrive:\"?

Am I just a dreamer, or does something like this exist?
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Windows 7 will not automount (assign a letter) a flash drive, behaves really strange

I have a SanDisk Cruzer Micro 4gb that I use often. Today, after using it to install ubuntu on another pc and plugging it to my main computer, windows 7 refuses to mount it (IE the drive does not appear in "my computer"). The volume DOES appear in…
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Is it safe to use letters A and B for drives?

My computer (a modern one, with Windows 8.1) is equipped with a DVD drive and a SD card reader. I'm considering assigning letters A and B to DVD and card reader. I know well that those letters were reserved for floppy disk drives (I'm old enough to…
user322042
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Windows 7: assign the same letter to an external hard drive

I use external drives containing music and video that are associated with programs/players and their media libraries according to the drive letter that was assigned to the drives at the moment of the association. These drives are not always…
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Can I rearrange drive letters of my mapped network drives?

I have several network storage drives that I've mapped in Windows. I'm wondering if I can change their assigned drive letters easily rather than disconnecting from them all and remapping in my preferred order.
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Windows 7 loses drive letter mapping on reboot

I have two sata hard drives configured as RAID1 that I am using as a data drive in my Win7 system. The OS is installed on a non-raid SSD drive. After installing the OS and starting Win7 for the first time, the raid drive was not shown in My…
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Windows 7 keeps losing drive letters

Windows 7 loses its drive letters and I have to keep manually assigning a drive letter everytime I plug in a hard drive, whether it's internal or external. The only way to get around it is to reinstall Windows 7 but the problem will come back after…
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Get drive's path using its name

I have a USB drive which letter/path could differ, but its name never changes. I would like to find the path/letter of this drive, by looking up its name. Is there a cmd command which could do this for me? I've been searching for a good while and…
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