All these USB port/dive letters?

The file manager I'm using and I guess Win10 itself assigns a drive
letter to 4 of my USB jacks, none of which are being used. But they
have gotten prominent letters E, F, G, and H.

There're a total of 8 USB jacks, and I'm using 4 for the mouse,
keyboard, camera, and harddrive dock.

This means that when using Disk Management, there are 4 blank sections
between the internal drive and the USB drive, and I have to scroll past
unused drive letters to see the details of the USB drive (s).


It seems like it would be useful to assign these low, unused letter
drives to higher letters instead, like one does with CD drives, but it
seems complicated. Say I made the 4 drives U, V, W, and X. Doesn't
that mean if I unplug a mouse and plug it into W the next time, the one
I'm no longer using will be E again?

So should I use the letters Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, and X? Even then, if
I plug the mouse into a different USB port... well, that make takeway a
different drive letter that had been unused, but will that matter?

.... I am Locutus of Borg, micky, resistance is futile ...

Do you have a card reader?


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micky wrote:

have gotten prominent letters E, F, G, and H.

USB card reader (SD slot, other slots).

There is a setting which prevents consumption
of letters when no media is installed.

Paul

On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:55:44 -0400, micky wrote:

The file manager I'm using and I guess Win10 itself assigns a drive
letter to 4 of my USB jacks, none of which are being used. But they
have gotten prominent letters E, F, G, and H.

It's not the USB sockets giving you the drive letters. I bet you have a
multi card reader installed and the letters have been allocated for it.
See Pauls post about there being a setting to stop them showing up when
empty. I'd like to find that out as well for mine :-)

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On 09/16/2016 02:55 PM, micky wrote:
The file manager I'm using and I guess Win10 itself assigns a drive
letter to 4 of my USB jacks, none of which are being used. But they
have gotten prominent letters E, F, G, and H.

There're a total of 8 USB jacks, and I'm using 4 for the mouse,
keyboard, camera, and harddrive dock.

This means that when using Disk Management, there are 4 blank sections
between the internal drive and the USB drive, and I have to scroll past
unused drive letters to see the details of the USB drive (s).


It seems like it would be useful to assign these low, unused letter
drives to higher letters instead, like one does with CD drives, but it
seems complicated. Say I made the 4 drives U, V, W, and X. Doesn't
that mean if I unplug a mouse and plug it into W the next time, the one
I'm no longer using will be E again?

So should I use the letters Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, and X? Even then, if
I plug the mouse into a different USB port... well, that make takeway a
different drive letter that had been unused, but will that matter?

I plug thumb drives in and then go into drive manager and change the
drive letter to something like S T U V etc. S for Seagate, T to a
Terabyte portable. Anyway, they stay that way too. When I plug
them back in, they turn up as S or T. Of course they don't show when
not plugged in, no really your issue. but...

Rodney Pont wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:55:44 -0400, micky wrote:

The file manager I'm using and I guess Win10 itself assigns a drive
letter to 4 of my USB jacks, none of which are being used. But they
have gotten prominent letters E, F, G, and H.

It's not the USB sockets giving you the drive letters. I bet you have a
multi card reader installed and the letters have been allocated for it.
See Pauls post about there being a setting to stop them showing up when
empty. I'd like to find that out as well for mine :-)


Example here.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...er-folder.html

In File Explorer, you may see the ribbon, and a "folder options" at one
end of the ribbon. In there is the old "View" thing that controls
viewing file extensions, making hidden files visible. There is
a setting there "Hide Empty Drives".

I think there have been third-party tools for this as well.

Paul

In article , NONONOmisc07
@bigfoot.com says...

The file manager I'm using and I guess Win10 itself assigns a drive
letter to 4 of my USB jacks, none of which are being used. But they
have gotten prominent letters E, F, G, and H.

There're a total of 8 USB jacks, and I'm using 4 for the mouse,
keyboard, camera, and harddrive dock.

This means that when using Disk Management, there are 4 blank sections
between the internal drive and the USB drive, and I have to scroll past
unused drive letters to see the details of the USB drive (s).


It seems like it would be useful to assign these low, unused letter
drives to higher letters instead, like one does with CD drives, but it
seems complicated. Say I made the 4 drives U, V, W, and X. Doesn't
that mean if I unplug a mouse and plug it into W the next time, the one
I'm no longer using will be E again?

So should I use the letters Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, and X? Even then, if
I plug the mouse into a different USB port... well, that make takeway a
different drive letter that had been unused, but will that matter?

It's likely your card reader is causing the drive letter assignments.

I switched mine to use W, X, Y & Z on a number of pcs now. I also have 6
different USB enclosures using assigned drive letters (O ... T) so the
ones right after the dvd drives get assigned when inserting a Thumbdrive
etc.

You do it using Disk Management. Don't know how to then ask another
question, e.g. How Do I change Drive Letters?

In article , says...

On 2016-09-16 19:16, pjp wrote:
[...]
I switched mine to use W, X, Y & Z on a number of pcs now. I also have 6
different USB enclosures using assigned drive letters (O ... T) so the
ones right after the dvd drives get assigned when inserting a Thumbdrive
etc.

You do it using Disk Management. Don't know how to then ask another
question, e.g. How Do I change Drive Letters?

I Rename every USB flash drive and every USB-connected external drive.
Flash drives by colour, eg, Blue-01, Blue-02, etc. External drives by
function. I label them accordingly. I don't care what drive letter they get.

Have a good day,

I rename everything basically Drive C, Drive D etc., Dura64Gb,
San32Gb etc. Sea2Tb, WD 1TB etc.

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 16 Sep 2016 21:27:26 +0200, Vladimir
Vu?i?evi? wrote:

... I am Locutus of Borg, micky, resistance is futile ...

Do you have a card reader?

A punch card reader? No. Well, that's what I thought you meant at
first, the kind they used on the $64,000 Question. I even read the
operator's manual for one at my summer job in 1965. I learned a lot
about sorting, I really did. (In short: Don't try sorting on the 100
thousands, then the 10 thousands, then the thousands, etc. or you'll
have 100's of piles. Sort the whole stack on the 1's, then stack the
10 stacks one on top of another, then the 10's, 100's etc. and when
you're all done, everything will be sorted. It's quite amazing.

Later, when I was a college dropout, I had another job where I tried to
use this knowledge, but the we were on loan from another department and
my temporary boss came by and wouldn't believe me when I said it would
work, and he made me do it the slow way, though the numbers only went up
to 300 or 365 and so there were only about 30 little piles. But I'm
not really suprised he didn't believe me, because even I thought it was
amazing, at least when I read the manual years earlier. .

Still later, everyone on long-term disability got a cost of living
increase in their monthly payment (which only happened every 2 or 3
years) and 8 or so of us were asssigned to recalculate everyone's
monthhy payment. They had 8 or so printing calculators and we were
supposed to mutiiply the current monthly payment by the percentage
increase, add the current payment, get the total, and staple the
printout to some form. If the increase was 2.4%, we weren't allowed to
just multiply by 1.024.

I saw that two of the calculators were programmable, so during lunch I
started programming the one that used a long punch card with 10 holes in
each row. It was harder than I hoped, and I couldn't finish during
lunch, or even by staying till 6, iirc, and I ended up coming in the
next day, Saturday, to finish then. Surprisingly, they let me into the
office, I don't remember why. I was about the only one there in an
office that usually had 50 people. I found that if I made an error, I
could cut the long card at the mistake, and finish on another card.
Each card was 30 lines and the manual said it would take maybe up to 20
cards and 600 instructions. Unfortunately I got too good at cutting
the cards and I made one so short that it never came out the other end.
Remember, I never asked permission to do this and I never told them I
was doing it.

The office was at Lowe's Astor Plaza, a movie theatre, skyscraper on
Times Square, built where the Astor Hotel used to be and on the roof of
whose front door solid canopy the cameras were set up for New Year's
Eve. I thought it would be hard to find a hardware store but I went
downstairs and in the very same building, I found a drug store that sold
two cheap screwdrivers, for cheap. I went back and took the cover off
the calculator and took the short card out. I was really afraid the
boss woujld show up or the janitor would find me with the cover off the
machine, but no one even came by. Shortly after that, I finished the
programming. I showed the boss on Monday morning but he didn't
believe me until he ran about 5 people through the calculator. He was
pleased.

I offered to program the other one and he agreed, but it was much
harder. It had long pieces of almost stiff, brown, magnetic celluloid,
and iirc the programming was invisible. Not made by punching holes
where partially punched holes that already existed, but by using the
calculator to write to the celluloid. And no simple commands like add
and multiply, except iirc after the numbers were moved to the right
registers, and even then there was no multiply. I had to add the right
number of times iirc. For this I really had to read the manual, and in
some ways it was harder than Assembly language programming, especially
for a newbie. But I got it working too in 2 or 4 hours. So they sent
everyone back to their jobs except two people to use the programmable
calculators, which continued to print the proper printouts.

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:25:18 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Rodney Pont wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:55:44 -0400, micky wrote:

The file manager I'm using and I guess Win10 itself assigns a drive
letter to 4 of my USB jacks, none of which are being used. But they
have gotten prominent letters E, F, G, and H.

It's not the USB sockets giving you the drive letters. I bet you have a
multi card reader installed and the letters have been allocated for it.
See Pauls post about there being a setting to stop them showing up when
empty. I'd like to find that out as well for mine :-)


Example here.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...er-folder.html

In File Explorer, you may see the ribbon, and a "folder options" at one
end of the ribbon. In there is the old "View" thing that controls
viewing file extensions, making hidden files visible. There is
a setting there "Hide Empty Drives".

I set that, but I won't know until I reboot I think what all is being
hidden. I like seeing my empty CD drive(s). But if I don't like the
results, I'll just rename them, now t hat I know what I'm renaming!

I think there have been third-party tools for this as well.

Paul

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 16 Sep 2016 21:09:03 +0100 (BST),
"Rodney Pont" wrote:

On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:55:44 -0400, micky wrote:

The file manager I'm using and I guess Win10 itself assigns a drive
letter to 4 of my USB jacks, none of which are being used. But they
have gotten prominent letters E, F, G, and H.

It's not the USB sockets giving you the drive letters. I bet you have a
multi card reader installed and the letters have been allocated for it.
See Pauls post about there being a setting to stop them showing up when
empty. I'd like to find that out as well for mine :-)

You got it right! Just about everyone did.

I was real happy when this thing came with a card reader, but then I
forgot all about it.

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:22:28 -0400, Big Al
wrote:

On 09/16/2016 02:55 PM, micky wrote:
The file manager I'm using and I guess Win10 itself assigns a drive
letter to 4 of my USB jacks, none of which are being used. But they
have gotten prominent letters E, F, G, and H.

There're a total of 8 USB jacks, and I'm using 4 for the mouse,
keyboard, camera, and harddrive dock.

This means that when using Disk Management, there are 4 blank sections
between the internal drive and the USB drive, and I have to scroll past
unused drive letters to see the details of the USB drive (s).


It seems like it would be useful to assign these low, unused letter
drives to higher letters instead, like one does with CD drives, but it
seems complicated. Say I made the 4 drives U, V, W, and X. Doesn't
that mean if I unplug a mouse and plug it into W the next time, the one
I'm no longer using will be E again?

Apparently not, since it's not the USB ports t hat have the letters.
It's just a coincidence there were 4 empty USB ports and also 4 empty
card slots.

So should I use the letters Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, and X? Even then, if
I plug the mouse into a different USB port... well, that make takeway a
different drive letter that had been unused, but will that matter?

I plug thumb drives in and then go into drive manager and change the
drive letter to something like S T U V etc. S for Seagate, T to a
Terabyte portable. Anyway, they stay that way too. When I plug
them back in, they turn up as S or T. Of course they don't show when
not plugged in, no really your issue. but...

I like your idea. I willl try to get a Royal electric teletype for R
and an Underwood for U.

And I like Wolf's idea of naming them after their color.

Look who is having a lot of spare time in his life...


.... I am Locutus of Borg, micky, resistance is futile ...
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 16 Sep 2016 21:27:26 +0200, Vladimir
Vu?i?evi? wrote:

... I am Locutus of Borg, micky, resistance is futile ...

Do you have a card reader?

A punch card reader? No. Well, that's what I thought you meant at
first, the kind they used on the $64,000 Question. I even read the
operator's manual for one at my summer job in 1965. I learned a lot
about sorting, I really did. (In short: Don't try sorting on the 100
thousands, then the 10 thousands, then the thousands, etc. or you'll
have 100's of piles. Sort the whole stack on the 1's, then stack the
10 stacks one on top of another, then the 10's, 100's etc. and when
you're all done, everything will be sorted. It's quite amazing.

Later, when I was a college dropout, I had another job where I tried to
use this knowledge, but the we were on loan from another department and
my temporary boss came by and wouldn't believe me when I said it would
work, and he made me do it the slow way, though the numbers only went up
to 300 or 365 and so there were only about 30 little piles. But I'm
not really suprised he didn't believe me, because even I thought it was
amazing, at least when I read the manual years earlier. .

Still later, everyone on long-term disability got a cost of living
increase in their monthly payment (which only happened every 2 or 3
years) and 8 or so of us were asssigned to recalculate everyone's
monthhy payment. They had 8 or so printing calculators and we were
supposed to mutiiply the current monthly payment by the percentage
increase, add the current payment, get the total, and staple the
printout to some form. If the increase was 2.4%, we weren't allowed to
just multiply by 1.024.

I saw that two of the calculators were programmable, so during lunch I
started programming the one that used a long punch card with 10 holes in
each row. It was harder than I hoped, and I couldn't finish during
lunch, or even by staying till 6, iirc, and I ended up coming in the
next day, Saturday, to finish then. Surprisingly, they let me into the
office, I don't remember why. I was about the only one there in an
office that usually had 50 people. I found that if I made an error, I
could cut the long card at the mistake, and finish on another card.
Each card was 30 lines and the manual said it would take maybe up to 20
cards and 600 instructions. Unfortunately I got too good at cutting
the cards and I made one so short that it never came out the other end.
Remember, I never asked permission to do this and I never told them I
was doing it.

The office was at Lowe's Astor Plaza, a movie theatre, skyscraper on
Times Square, built where the Astor Hotel used to be and on the roof of
whose front door solid canopy the cameras were set up for New Year's
Eve. I thought it would be hard to find a hardware store but I went
downstairs and in the very same building, I found a drug store that sold
two cheap screwdrivers, for cheap. I went back and took the cover off
the calculator and took the short card out. I was really afraid the
boss woujld show up or the janitor would find me with the cover off the
machine, but no one even came by. Shortly after that, I finished the
programming. I showed the boss on Monday morning but he didn't
believe me until he ran about 5 people through the calculator. He was
pleased.

I offered to program the other one and he agreed, but it was much
harder. It had long pieces of almost stiff, brown, magnetic celluloid,
and iirc the programming was invisible. Not made by punching holes
where partially punched holes that already existed, but by using the
calculator to write to the celluloid. And no simple commands like add
and multiply, except iirc after the numbers were moved to the right
registers, and even then there was no multiply. I had to add the right
number of times iirc. For this I really had to read the manual, and in
some ways it was harder than Assembly language programming, especially
for a newbie. But I got it working too in 2 or 4 hours. So they sent
everyone back to their jobs except two people to use the programmable
calculators, which continued to print the proper printouts.



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~~~ www.bachi.in.rs Skype: don_vucicevic
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice...

micky wrote in
:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 16 Sep 2016 17:25:18 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Rodney Pont wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:55:44 -0400, micky wrote:

The file manager I'm using and I guess Win10 itself assigns a drive
letter to 4 of my USB jacks, none of which are being used. But
they have gotten prominent letters E, F, G, and H.

It's not the USB sockets giving you the drive letters. I bet you
have a multi card reader installed and the letters have been
allocated for it. See Pauls post about there being a setting to stop
them showing up when empty. I'd like to find that out as well for
mine :-)


Example here.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...w-empty-drives
-computer-folder.html

In File Explorer, you may see the ribbon, and a "folder options" at
one end of the ribbon. In there is the old "View" thing that controls
viewing file extensions, making hidden files visible. There is
a setting there "Hide Empty Drives".

I set that, but I won't know until I reboot I think what all is being
hidden. I like seeing my empty CD drive(s). But if I don't like the
results, I'll just rename them, now t hat I know what I'm renaming!

I think there have been third-party tools for this as well.

Paul

You should also be able to go into Disk Management and change those
drives to have no drive letter. The drawback is when you do have a card
in the reader you will have no drive letter to access it until you go
back to Disk Management and assign one. If you are like most of us and
only have one type of card to read, you can unassign the other three
slots and at least clean up most of the excess.

I wonder how one would be able to set things up if one had more than 26
drives?

On 17/09/16 02:55, micky wrote:
So should I use the letters Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, and X? Even then, if
I plug the mouse into a different USB port... well, that make takeway a
different drive letter that had been unused, but will that matter?


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