External HDD Drive Letter

rctneil · 28 Aug 2009 at 20:06

Hello,
I have an external HDD where I store the files for any virtual machines I use with Virtual Box. I set the VPC's up when the drive was lettered as "K" whcih is fine but I use a lot of other drives and flash memory devices so sometimes when I turn on the HDD with the VPC date on it, it does not show up as "K".

Is there any way I can sort of reserve the "K" lettering and only allow the computer to set "K" to be my external HDD when it is switched on?

Sin_Chase · 28 Aug 2009 at 20:07

As far as I am aware with External Storage you cannot do this.

Simian · 28 Aug 2009 at 20:16

All my external drives, be it a maxtor Basic 320Gb, 2/4/8Gb USB Flash drives remember what drive letters I set them to in 'computer management... okay the first time you plug em in its a bit messy... but if you can plug em all in at once and then re-arrange the letters, next time they're plugged in windows should remember what drive letters were assigned!!..

at least my copy of Vista64 does!..

rctneil · 28 Aug 2009 at 20:17

ok Thanks.

I'll try it out

BigBoy · 29 Aug 2009 at 00:47

Simian said:
All my external drives, be it a maxtor Basic 320Gb, 2/4/8Gb USB Flash drives remember what drive letters I set them to in 'computer management... okay the first time you plug em in its a bit messy... but if you can plug em all in at once and then re-arrange the letters, next time they're plugged in windows should remember what drive letters were assigned!!..

at least my copy of Vista64 does!..

this^^

WinXP Vista And Win7 all work this way.

HangTime · 29 Aug 2009 at 01:25

May be worth giving it a 'high' letter so that no other drive will automatically get assigned that letter when it's not connected. E.g. give it V: or something.

rctneil · 29 Aug 2009 at 13:43

HangTime said:
May be worth giving it a 'high' letter so that no other drive will automatically get assigned that letter when it's not connected. E.g. give it V: or something.

Thats a good idea. Might try that if what was said above fails. If I change the drive letter from "K", then the virtual pc I have setup in Virtualbox is unable to be changed from what I can see. Any ideas on how I can do that?