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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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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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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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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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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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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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