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Old July 31st 18, 12:32 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Alek
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Default I have two external HD holders...

With a known good HD plugged in to one and then to a USB port, it shows
up on my computer as O:

It shows up as having 5 partitions, etc.

When I plug it into the other holder and plug that one into the USB port
that I had just been using, shouldn't it show up as O: also?
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Old July 31st 18, 02:16 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
GlowingBlueMist[_6_]
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Default I have two external HD holders...

On 7/30/2018 6:32 PM, Alek wrote:
With a known good HD plugged in to one and then to a USB port, it shows
up on my computer as O:

It shows up as having 5 partitions, etc.

When I plug it into the other holder and plug that one into the USB port
that I had just been using, shouldn't it show up as O: also?

If you are talking about the assigned drive letter, not necessarily.
I believe the PC uses some kind of ID bytes from the USB interface to
identify the USB adapter first, then possibly the drive.

What you can do is plug in the two interfaces/drive and manually assign
them both to the same drive letter, with only one of them plugged in at
a time and see if the PC will then retain the same drive letter
regardless of which adapter you use.
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Old July 31st 18, 02:44 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default I have two external HD holders...

Alek wrote:
With a known good HD plugged in to one and then to a USB port, it shows
up on my computer as O:

It shows up as having 5 partitions, etc.

When I plug it into the other holder and plug that one into the USB port
that I had just been using, shouldn't it show up as O: also?


There's a tool to increase the number
of variables :-) Drive Letter Manager (DLM)
can add some certainty to assignments.

https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

I don't worry about letters all that much,
and so far haven't managed to place a dependency
on what letter a USB is assigned. As a consequence,
I don't use DLM.

As a corollary, I have to be *very careful*
in Disk Management. Any time I issue commands,
I check, check, and recheck that drive letter.
I also no longer copy commands in a hurry
into Command Prompt. I prepare a command
in Notepad, copy the string, *Paste* it
back into Notepad to verify the paste buffer
contains what I think it contains. Only
then, do I go back to the Command Prompt
and paste the string into there too. After
which, if I'm happy with the command entered,
I hit the Enter key. These extra steps were
after having a "little accident" that deleted
1GB of files before I could stop it.

Paul
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Old July 31st 18, 06:00 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default I have two external HD holders...

Good Guy aka Our Resident Berating Asshole wrote:

Alek wrote:

When I plug it into the other holder and plug that one into the USB port
that I had just been using, shouldn't it show up as O: also?


No
Only an idiot would come out with such stupid supposition. I suggest
search the web for "Alek Idiot" image. Good luck.


And only idiots, like you, post using HTML into a text-only newsgroup.

And only idiots, like you, think using "X-No-Archive: Yes" (yep, yours
with two spaces instead of one) think their submissions will be removed
from Usenet archives.
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Old July 31st 18, 05:01 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Alek
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Default I have two external HD holders...

Alek wrote on 7/30/2018 7:32 PM:
With a known good HD plugged in to one and then to a USB port, it shows
up on my computer as O:

It shows up as having 5 partitions, etc.

When I plug it into the other holder and plug that one into the USB port
that I had just been using, shouldn't it show up as O: also?


Turns out the second one was defective. While the HD showed up as O: and
I could open it and see files, the HD when placed in the second one said
"no media"!
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Old July 31st 18, 06:34 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default I have two external HD holders...

Alek wrote:
Alek wrote on 7/30/2018 7:32 PM:
With a known good HD plugged in to one and then to a USB port, it shows
up on my computer as O:

It shows up as having 5 partitions, etc.

When I plug it into the other holder and plug that one into the USB port
that I had just been using, shouldn't it show up as O: also?


Turns out the second one was defective. While the HD showed up as O: and
I could open it and see files, the HD when placed in the second one said
"no media"!


A typical failure on a 3.5" housing, is the power connector.

And there have been SATA power cables that burned, when two
conductors touched at the connector end. Haven't seen any
detailed pictures that explain how that can happen and
what piece of copper has come loose.

Paul
 




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