{"id":13136,"date":"2008-07-12T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T18:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/07\/12\/drive-letter-assignment-woes.html"},"modified":"2008-07-12T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T18:28:39","slug":"drive_letter_assignment_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/12\/drive_letter_assignment_w.html","title":{"rendered":"Drive letter assignment woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of days ago, the drive letter assigned to my external USB 100Gb drive decided to change from E: to F:. Once upon a time that would have been no trouble, since I only used it for backup and external file storage, but for the last six months or so, I’ve had City of Heroes installed on it (to alleviate the space struggle with a tiny 60Gb drive on the notebook proper), and the change meant that the program wouldn’t run.<\/p>\n

(Side note: I remember, Cro-Magnon that I am, when drive letters were all relative and the registry was unknown and you could just move an application by, well, copying it to a new location. Now it’s all like a Chinese puzzle box, and something as trivial as changing the drive letter renders an application unusable. Feh.)<\/p>\n

I tried unplugging and repluggling and trying USB thumb drives to grab the letter and using the USB eject tool and rebooting and cycling the power and all that good stuff, but nothing helped.<\/p>\n

Finally I did what all folks do at this point. I checked Google. And found this Authentic Real Certified Microsoft Article on the problem (for XP, which is what I have):<\/p>\n

How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP<\/a> <\/p>\n

And, so far, yes, that’s done it.<\/p>\n

So, for future reference …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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