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Author Topic: how to give each USB stick a specific drive letter?  (Read 11,496 times)

masu

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how to give each USB stick a specific drive letter?
« on: September 18, 2008, 07:03 PM »
how to give each USB stick a specific drive letter
Each time I plug my USb stick to my PC it sometimes get a new drive letter. This is especially annoying, if you use a backupprogram to backup your harddisk data on it. Due to the changed drive letters, the backupprogram loses all file references.
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Re: how to give each USB stick a specific drive letter?
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2008, 07:10 PM »
Check out this recent thread for a discussion of two alternatives (USBDLM is freeware):

http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=14695.0
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katykaty

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Re: how to give each USB stick a specific drive letter?
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2008, 05:23 PM »
Or just as easily, have a look at this  :)

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Re: how to give each USB stick a specific drive letter?
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2008, 07:32 AM »
Or just as easily, have a look at this  :)

Been doing that for a while - works great!  :Thmbsup:
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