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All these USB port/dive letters?
Tim wrote:
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? You could try USBdlm. http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html One of the purposes of Drive Letter Management, is to prevent newly mounted USB devices using the same letter as a file share that is already in place. ******* Drives don't need drive letters. If you check MountVol, you can see there are GUID identifiers for drives, and you could access them that way. It wouldn't be particularly easy though. You could visit the registry, to see every drive that has ever been connected to the computer. Each one leaves fingerprints. For example, CHIDSK will accept a GUID identifier instead of a drive letter. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../bb457122.aspx chkdsk \\?\Volume{2d9bd2a8-5df8-11d2-bdaa-000000000000} HTH, Paul |
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All these USB port/dive letters?
"Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote in
: 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? The drive letters are not associated with any specific USB port. If you had an external card reader, no matter which USB port you plugged it into, you would see the four drives appear. Also, the mouse has no association with drive letters, so it can be plugged into any USB port with worry of it harming any assigned drive letters. |
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All these USB port/dive letters?
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. Or L for Linux, A for Acronis, M for Macrium. Heck it's endless! LOL |
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All these USB port/dive letters?
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". It unfolded over several days but to the best of my recollection of what happened when I set Hide Empty Drives in Folder Options was that when using Xplorer2, it didnt' hide them, probably because I also had it set to show hidden files, folders, and drives. So it hid them and then it showed them because it's supposed to show the hidden ones! Maybe some day they'll have 3 separate settings for hidden files, folders, and drives, or hide empty will override show hidden. However when the nameless default MS file manager came up, indeed they were hidden. But my empty DVD drive was also hidden and I didn't like that. I put a CD in it and it wasn't hidden anymore. Maybe I could get used to it, but it's not likely I'll be using the MS file manager anyhow. For 10 years or more I've used PowerDesk. It started out free and I never registered and paid because V-com was the same company I'd bought a backup program but failed to download the most recent version and the version I bought deleted a whole gig of files, back when that was half of what I had. Ironic that it was a backup program. The other program I bought from them was a mulit-boot program that was so awkward to work, when I think others were easy. So since PowerDesk was free, I didn't pay, but I can't find a free version for 10. In fact I found webpages that said it didnt' work in 10 at all, a year after 10 was released, but I think it does now. If I stay in 10, I guess I'll have to pay, and I don't know yet what drives I'll see if I hide drives. V-com was bought by Avanquest so that's good, but they still refer to the V-com division. Ugh. PowerDesk has a lot of good features, including dialog helper, which only worked some of the time in Vista, and it lets you pick how it starts up every time, like which directory shows and how it is sorted, and you can have the two half-windows at the same time, each starting up differently. Thanks. I think there have been third-party tools for this as well. Paul |
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All these USB port/dive letters?
micky wrote in
news 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...de-show-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". It unfolded over several days but to the best of my recollection of what happened when I set Hide Empty Drives in Folder Options was that when using Xplorer2, it didnt' hide them, probably because I also had it set to show hidden files, folders, and drives. So it hid them and then it showed them because it's supposed to show the hidden ones! I tried that, and same here, except my optical drives still show even when empty. I prefer, though, to show all drives so that show hidden files is enabled. Maybe some day they'll have 3 separate settings for hidden files, folders, and drives, or hide empty will override show hidden. However when the nameless default MS file manager came up, indeed they were hidden. But my empty DVD drive was also hidden and I didn't like that. I put a CD in it and it wasn't hidden anymore. Maybe I could get used to it, but it's not likely I'll be using the MS file manager anyhow. For 10 years or more I've used PowerDesk. It started out free and I never registered and paid because V-com was the same company I'd bought a backup program but failed to download the most recent version and the version I bought deleted a whole gig of files, back when that was half of what I had. Ironic that it was a backup program. The other program I bought from them was a mulit-boot program that was so awkward to work, when I think others were easy. So since PowerDesk was free, I didn't pay, but I can't find a free version for 10. In fact I found webpages that said it didnt' work in 10 at all, a year after 10 was released, but I think it does now. If I stay in 10, I guess I'll have to pay, and I don't know yet what drives I'll see if I hide drives. V-com was bought by Avanquest so that's good, but they still refer to the V-com division. Ugh. PowerDesk has a lot of good features, including dialog helper, which only worked some of the time in Vista, and it lets you pick how it starts up every time, like which directory shows and how it is sorted, and you can have the two half-windows at the same time, each starting up differently. Thanks. I think there have been third-party tools for this as well. Paul |
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All these USB port/dive letters?
On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 10:05:55 -0500, Tim wrote:
I wonder how one would be able to set things up if one had more than 26 drives? Presumably, you'd simply start mounting drives into empty NTFS folders, which is an option that Disk Management has had since about forever. Alternatively, you could use the awkward GUID method, but the first method above is quite simple. |
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