"R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>Hi, pbl.
>
>All I can say is the Old Faithful: It works for me.
>
>In Disk Management, are you assigning letters to the devices? Or to the
>partition(s) on those devices? Are you right-clicking on the Volume in the
>Volume List (at the top of the screen by default) or on the left column in
>the Graphical View (Disk 0, for example)? Are you assigning names to your
>volumes, or relying only on "drive" letters?
>
>In my system, Disks 0, 1 and 2 are Hard Disk Drives (divided into more than
>a dozen volumes). Disk 3 Removable is my ReadyBoost USB drive,
>(semi-)permanently assigned R:. Even if I remove the USB key and insert it
>into a different USB port, it keeps the letter R:. Disk 4 Removable is my
>SanDisk single-slot SD card reader and it is always Drive S:. Just now it
>was empty (No Media), but was still identified as S:; I inserted an SD card
>and Windows recognized it and offered to read the files on S:. I unplugged
>the USB cable from its port on the back of the computer; Disk 4 disappeared
>from Disk Management. I plugged the cable into a 4-port hub; Disk 4
>appeared again and, as soon as I clicked on it, the letter S: appeared
>again. (Then I restored the plug to the back of the case; situation normal
>again.)
>
>I always label each of my volumes and devices; the labels (names) get
>written to the HD or USB device and remain constant no matter whether I'm
>running WinXP, Vista or Win7. They don't shift like drive letters when I
>reboot to a different OS. Even back in MS-DOS days, we used "vol" to write
>volume names onto the disks; in Disk Management, right-click on the volume,
>then Properties, then type a name into the unlabeled box near the top of the
>window.
>
>But I've never used USB external hard drives - except for the flash drives.
>Maybe they behave differently.
>
>RC
External hard drives work the same way, as long as all the internals
are assigned.
I can even end up with my flash drives being the same, as long as I
have them all plugged in when I set the drive letters AND as long as I
always plug them into the same port after that.