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Old May 11th 18, 09:59 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Can you "hide" an flash drive's drive letter?

Hi All,

I can not do this myself as I am running virtual machine
and it mounts USB drive in an unusual manner.

Can you "hide" (remove) a flash drive's drive letter, remove
the drive, then reinstall the drive, and have Windows 7 still
honor the request that the drive be hidden?

I am hoping Windows reads the UUID and uses that to honor
the request each time it is inserted.

Many thanks,
-T
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Old May 12th 18, 03:25 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Can you "hide" an flash drive's drive letter?

On 2018-05-11 16:59, T wrote:

Hi All,

I can not do this myself as I am running virtual machine
and it mounts USB drive in an unusual manner.

Can you "hide" (remove) a flash drive's drive letter, remove
the drive, then reinstall the drive, and have Windows 7 still
honor the request that the drive be hidden?

I am hoping Windows reads the UUID and uses that to honor
the request each time it is inserted.

Many thanks,
-T


Not sure, I think so - it does tend to respect giving a USB drive a
specific drive letter, so that on subsequent inserts the drive gets the
same letter, so why not respect giving it no drive letter at all? I
wouldn't rely on Windows for this though, I use USB Drive Letter Manager
(USBDLM) from Uwe Sieber for this kinda stuff.

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Old May 12th 18, 03:36 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Can you "hide" an flash drive's drive letter?

On 05/11/2018 07:25 PM, B00ze wrote:
On 2018-05-11 16:59, T wrote:

Hi All,

I can not do this myself as I am running virtual machine
and it mounts USB drive in an unusual manner.

Can you "hide" (remove) a flash drive's drive letter, remove
the drive, then reinstall the drive, and have Windows 7 still
honor the request that the drive be hidden?

I am hoping Windows reads the UUID and uses that to honor
the request each time it is inserted.

Many thanks,
-T


Not sure, I think so - it does tend to respect giving a USB drive a
specific drive letter, so that on subsequent inserts the drive gets the
same letter, so why not respect giving it no drive letter at all? I
wouldn't rely on Windows for this though, I use USB Drive Letter Manager
(USBDLM) from Uwe Sieber for this kinda stuff.

Regards,


I get away with it all the time with permanently attached
USB drives, but I have never had anyone remove one and
reinstall it.

I program directly with MountVol. Batch programming is a pain
in the ass.
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Old May 14th 18, 02:28 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Can you "hide" an flash drive's drive letter?

T news 20:59:11 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

Hi All,

I can not do this myself as I am running virtual machine
and it mounts USB drive in an unusual manner.

Can you "hide" (remove) a flash drive's drive letter, remove
the drive, then reinstall the drive, and have Windows 7 still
honor the request that the drive be hidden?

I am hoping Windows reads the UUID and uses that to honor
the request each time it is inserted.

Many thanks,
-T


Is there a particular reason you want the drive to remain hidden? And,
do you mean no drive letter assigned or something else?


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