interesting program

[Bill McEachran]

Will that persist across a reboot?
My solution to these types of situations is a vbs script that looks for 
the devices volume name, then finds the drive letter to which the volume 
is assigned.
This is becoming a bigger issue with USB hard drives, thumbdrives, mpeg 
players, cameras .....

On 3/3/2010 5:58 PM, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> You can actually lock it down without a program. Go to Control
> Panel->Administrative tools->Computer management->Storage->Disk management
> (local). Right-click the drive in question and select "Change drive letter
> and paths". Take it from there.
>
> I use this procedure on several machines, then have .BAT files to backup
> and restore working files.
>
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>
>    
>>> Problem:
>>>
>>> Client needs to move filepro data from office computer to home computer
>>> using a usb drive.
>>>
>>> Drive letter on home computer changes periodically.
>>>        
>>       Another approach might be a Windows utility like this, that can "lock down" the drive letter of most USB devices when they are inserted on a specific computer.
>>
>> USBDLM - for managing and "locking down" USB (and other) drive letters on Windows computers:
>>
>> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
>>
>> Mike Schwartz
>>
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