On 12/09/2011, Ed Cryer posted:
> Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>> On 12/09/2011, Laszlo Lebrun posted:
>>> Hi group,
>>> how can I prepare a partition on a drive connected via USB to get
>>> letter C:?
>>> That letter is not available at preparation time.
>>
>>> ??
>>> Laszlo
>>
>> Since C: is usually the boot drive, that letter wouldn't ever be
>> available to another drive. Two different drives can't have the same
>> letter...
>>
>> If you know that and if C: isn't used and should be available, then all
>> you have to do is assign the drive letter the usual way. It will remain
>> unchanged in future as long as no other drive gets that letter in the
>> interim.
>>
>> Here's one usual way:
>>
>> Right click Computer, choose Manage, then select Disk Management in the
>> left pane (you might have to click the little triangle next to Storage
>> to see that).
>>
>> Right click the drive in the right side of the window and choose "Change
>> Drive Letter and Paths...".
>>
>> I must say that when I assign drive letters, I try not to choose letters
>> with well-established prior meanings.
>>
> If we're talking about inside Windows, then the drive letters are merely
> relational to Windows; they're not written to the disk itself.
> So you can do the following, which I've often done.
> 1. Plug in a USB external disk, and have it assigned a letter by Win7. That
> might be H.
> 2. Clone the system C disk to it.
> 3. Take that disk and replace the original cloned one.
> 4. Boot. And it will have been assigned C.
> Ed
That's not what I think the OP meant, but who knows?
What I think the OP meant is what I (think I) wrote about, and here's a
concrete example to clarify:
Let's say I plug in a drive, and Windows calls it drive F:. Now I
generate a backup script using Macrium.
Later I run that script, and Macrium expects (requires) the drive to be
drive F:. OK, except that today I happened to have plugged in a USB
stick, and the BU drive is now G:, so the backup task aborts - and
letter F: is not available to fix it. Unless I unplug the USB stick,
but if I happen to be running the script overnight while I sleep, this
option is not really viable...PITA.
Here's how I deal with that. When I first plug in the drive (or later,
after the above failure) I assign a high letter to the drive, such as
X:, and recreate the backup script.
Next time I plug the drive in, Windows remembers the X: and Macrium
finds the drive. No more problems, unless I assign X: to a second
device - but I'm not that dumb.
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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
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