After plugging in your USB device, run the command compmgmt.msc
Select Disk Management
Then, Right-click on your drive and Select Change Drive Letter
"pbl" <pblnews@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have 5 USB devices (2 external drives, 1 flash drive, one CF card reader,
>and 1 Sony walkman) that when connected score a drive letter. My problem is
>that the drive letters change depending on the order in which the devices
>are connected (the first one plugged in gets drive F, then G, etc). This
>causes a headache for my backup software SyncBackPro, where I have schemes
>set up for my two external hard drives based on drive letters. I can change
>the drive letters in Disk Management (Vista Ultimate) but that only sticks
>while that device is connected. For instance, if I unplug my primary backup
>drive G and connect my flash drive, the flash drive would then become G. Is
>there any way of permanently locking a particular device to a particular
>drive letter?