Thank you, I shall check some of your directions.
Just for the records, the detail of my issue is:
I have 2 USB flash-memory devices (standard pen-drives).
Depending on the order I connect them they are assigned logical drive
letters F: and G: and sometimes these letters are swapped. In the taskbar the
"Safely Remove Hardware" icon tooltip does not show me the corresponding
volume label. Thus sometimes I disconnect the unintended USB device by
mistake.
"Chad Harris" wrote:
> Carlos--
>
> You don't have to remember in my experience if you simply click the icon in
> the notification area in my experience with an IPOD although maybe it is
> different with multiple devices at once. What happens whoever when you type
> diskmgmt.msc into the run box elicited by hitting the Windows Key + R?
>
> I guarantee you then you will see all your devices displayed on their
> logical drive letter. It takes a few seconds granted. The drive letter
> itself shows for me at the notification area with a mouseover.
>
> Send the feedback to MSFT. There is no guarantee that the appropriate team
> will ever read it here. I only know of two people from there who have
> contributed to any of these groups more than once and two who contributed
> once. So whether they read it or not is happenstance. You could use MSWISH
> which I regard as talking to a cemetary, or you could try to find the
> closest MSDN blog and then use the contact them button. You could also
> provide the feedback to the Vista Team blog. I have no idea which team of
> the couple thousand people or so who work on Vista does that particular
> item, but you could contact the Shell Team at
>
> Features That Didn't Make the Cut
> http://shellrevealed.com/blogs/shell...e-the-cut.aspx
>
> Sign in and you can comment directly to someone who can get your suggestion
> to the people who can do something about it.
>
> Meanwhile, if one of those storage devices is an Apple Ipod, Nano, Shuffle,
> MSFT has an update for the very feature you speak of which sometimes can
> corrupt the tunes on an Ipod although it has never done so for me without
> the update:
>
> The Safely Remove Hardware feature and the Windows Explorer "Eject" command
> do not work correctly with an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows
> Vista-based computer
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936824
>
> When you click the Safely Remove Hardware icon in Windows Vista, the device
> in question may not be removed as expected
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931619/en-us
>
> A connected USB storage device does not appear when you click the "Safely
> Remove Hardware" icon in the notification area in Windows Vista
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927826/en-us
>
> (Shutting down the computer is not a very bright workaround)
>
> Good luck,
>
> CH
>
>
> "Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:42D3F807-09CC-488C-AB5D-AC12B83D5136@microsoft.com...
> >I use more than 1 usb mass storage. When I want to disconnect one of then I
> > am forced to remember which logical drive letter it was using in order to
> > properly disconnect it. In my opinion it would be much easier to see the
> > volume label if instead of the logical drive letter. In Vista, where many
> > details were taken into consideration, I found this would contribute to
> > better usability. It's a basic thing that I miss.
> >
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