At 00:45 2017-02-07, Dave Crozier DaveC@Flexipol.co.uk wrote:
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My only gripe with USB drives is that when you have a number of them they don't always set themselves up as a permanent drive letter. For instance I have 3 x USB drives that are rotated on a daily basis and I use Syncback to put mirror images onto the disks. Syncback requires a fixed drive mapping (example z:) but windows in its infinite wisdom gives random drive mappings which have to be changed using disk Manager at which stage the auto decrypt of bitlocker takes over and opens the drive. I have tried man, many pieces of software which state that they will force a drive to be mapped to a specific letter but none of them work 100%.
The software I use for this is called Windows.
Here is a link showing how: Assign Permanent Drive Letters To A Removable USB Drive In Windows http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/assign-permanent-drive-letters-to-...
I believe you would have to do this for each of the USB drives on each of the systems. If you do not use more than one of them at a time on a system, I think you could use the same drive letter. (I only have one USB drive to worry about so I have not tried this.)
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Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
Gene, Yes it does work.... however the Drive letter is defined by the make of the Drive and if you have a number of identical drives then it assumes that the drive already is mapped and proceeds to randomly map the drive to another letter.
To a certain extent I mitigated the problem by using a piece of freeware called USBDLM which allows you to set up a drive ID "file" on the disk and a service running on the host PC maps the drive accordingly.... Fine until you introduce Bitlocker which defines the drive letter before it can be read... so USBDLM becomes useless!
If you do come across a solution (or anyone else for that matter) let me know. Until then I let Bitlocker unlock the drive automatically then use Disk Admin to map it - assuming that it has been mapped to something other than Z:
Dave Dave
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At 00:45 2017-02-07, Dave Crozier DaveC@Flexipol.co.uk wrote:
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My only gripe with USB drives is that when you have a number of them they don't always set themselves up as a permanent drive letter. For instance I have 3 x USB drives that are rotated on a daily basis and I use Syncback to put mirror images onto the disks. Syncback requires a fixed drive mapping (example z:) but windows in its infinite wisdom gives random drive mappings which have to be changed using disk Manager at which stage the auto decrypt of bitlocker takes over and opens the drive. I have tried man, many pieces of software which state that they will force a drive to be mapped to a specific letter but none of them work 100%.
The software I use for this is called Windows.
Here is a link showing how: Assign Permanent Drive Letters To A Removable USB Drive In Windows http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/assign-permanent-drive-letters-to-...
I believe you would have to do this for each of the USB drives on each of the systems. If you do not use more than one of them at a time on a system, I think you could use the same drive letter. (I only have one USB drive to worry about so I have not tried this.)
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Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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