Need Help Changing Drive Identification

[EliSnow]

I use Iomega external hard drives to store my media files. After using up a 500 gig one, and I decided to get another one. Same make and model. But when I hook it up to my laptop (using different USB ports for each hard drive), the laptop recognizes them both as a G: drive. So if both are on, only one is accessible.

Anyone know of a way to re-label one of those drives as a different letter?

[opie's twisted balls]

You didn't mention which OS you're using.....if windows then:

Open "computer management":
-click Start, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
-click Disk Management
-select the drive you want to change
-right mouse click then select "change partition letter"

[EliSnow]

You didn't mention which OS you're using.....if windows then:

Open "computer management":
-click Start, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
-click Disk Management
-select the drive you want to change
-right mouse click then select "change partition letter"

Thanks. It worked.

[opie's twisted balls]

Thanks. It worked.


You're welcome.....I had faith in you

[JustJon]

You didn't mention which OS you're using.....if windows then:


Only Windows uses letters. No other OSes.

[Suspect Chin]

Will each drive forever be labeled as he labeled it tonight or will it change back after the drives are unplugged? If it is forever, where is that drive label info stored? On the drive itself or in windows?

[opie's twisted balls]

Only Windows uses letters. No other OSes.
DOS does


Will each drive forever be labeled as he labeled it tonight or will it change back after the drives are unplugged? If it is forever, where is that drive label info stored? On the drive itself or in windows?
The external drives will default back to whatever the next available drive letter if they're removed

[DolaMight]

Only Windows uses letters. No other OSes.

haha you got out-geeked. he rm -rf /'d you.

[Suspect Chin]

The external drives will default back to whatever the next available drive letter if they're removed

Would it be so hard for Windows to recognize a particular drive and always assign a specific letter to it?

[opie's twisted balls]

Would it be so hard for Windows to recognize a particular drive and always assign a specific letter to it?
I think the problem is that windows looks at the volume label (which are fairly common across all sorts of different removable media) when attempting to reassign the same drive letter.

[Suspect Chin]

I think the problem is that windows looks at the volume label (which are fairly common across all sorts of different removable media) when attempting to reassign the same drive letter.



Surely each removable storage device (USB stick, HDD, etc.) has some kind of unique signature that windows could remember in order to make sure that particular device gets the same letter every time.

[opie's twisted balls]

Surely each removable storage device (USB stick, HDD, etc.) has some kind of unique signature that windows could remember in order to make sure that particular device gets the same letter every time.
Don't think so....its not like an ethernet adapter that has a unique MAC address.

In some ways it would be nice if it would since it is a pain in the ass when windows does "forget" what a previous drive assignment was. On the flipside there's the issue of having a lot of removable drives (for me its flash cards from cameras) where I don't care what drive letter gets assigned.

[JustJon]

DOS does


:banning:

And even DOS is going to be MS-DOS

[opie's twisted balls]

Only Windows uses letters
And even DOS is going to be MS-DOS

Windows ≠ DOS

and put your little stamp away :dry:

[EliSnow]

Will each drive forever be labeled as he labeled it tonight or will it change back after the drives are unplugged? If it is forever, where is that drive label info stored? On the drive itself or in windows?

So far it appears those drives are staying put. I haven't unplugged them from the computer, but I have been turing them off at night.