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Living Room / Re: Force USB Drives to use Drive Letter X

« on: May 21, 2011, 12:46 PM »

While the USBDLM thing is tempting just to get out from under this project ... Using it would mean that if anyone inserted and/or left a ThumbDrive in the server it would be a coin toss as to which one the backup software would toast. e.g. Either the backup would fail (target not found) or it would "succeed" in destroying the contents of the ThumbDrive as the backup was sent to it. (Oh yeah) or both.

-Stoic Joker (May 21, 2011, 09:20 AM)

USBDLM can be configured to assign specific letters to specific drives by means of many criteria. Most simple one: The drive type.

; USB hard disks on X..Z
[DriveLetters10]
DriveType=FIXED
Letters=X-Z

; other USB drives on O..W
[DriveLetters90]
Letters=O-W

If you are still concerned someone forgets a USB hard drive, you can specify the right one volume label as criteria.

; "Big Backup" drive on X
[DriveLetters10]
VolumeLabel=Big Backup
Letters=X

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why does Windows assign my USB drive to an already assigned network drive?

« on: May 07, 2009, 05:12 AM »

2.4 MB against 9 MB. If I can choose then I select the slim one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why does Windows assign my USB drive to an already assigned network drive?

« on: May 07, 2009, 03:50 AM »

On a virtual machine without any hotplug drives (Private Bytes shown by ProcessExplorer)

The USBDLM service takes  2.4 MB.
USB Safely Remove V4.0 takes 1 MB for its service and 8 MB for the colorful user app.

I think when I had tested USB Safely Remove some time ago on a real XP with some USB drives it was much more.
Maybe V4.0 is more optimized than V3.x was.

Still factor 3.5 for USBDLM.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why does Windows assign my USB drive to an already assigned network drive?

« on: May 07, 2009, 01:14 AM »

On first view USB Safely Remove might be easier to use than USBDLM but it takes by far more memory.

@superboyac: All you need is XP SP3. It fixes the problem at least for new drives.