saving to a usb flash drive

[majariley]

i just bought a new usb 2gb external flash drive. when i try and use it in one of my usb ports it has the same name as the one for my machines(drive e) how can i rename the machine drives so i can use the usb port for the flash drive?

[3rdstring]

I had a problem like that at one time, unfortunately the only thing I was able to get to work was to move the mapped drives down.

[Guest]

Chuck is on target I think.

[thoskins]

If your running windows XP can't you go to Administrative Services, Computer Managment, Then open up Storage and goto Disk Management and right click on the drive you want to change and reassign the drive letter.

I have done this with a external hard drive. It should work with a USB flash drive to.

[3rdstring]

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If your running windows XP can't you go to Administrative Services, Computer Managment, Then open up Storage and goto Disk Management and right click on the drive you want to change and reassign the drive letter.

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I think you would have to do that every time you plugged the USB drive back in. It might work for your current session, but once you unplugged it you would loose that explicit assignment.

[majariley]

actually the usb port automatically overrides the port letter designation and is working just fine. if i have the flash drive plugged in i can't save anything to the machine until i take out the flash drive. saving my mc9 folder to the flash drive as we speak. thanks for the imput and timely replies. man i love this forum!!! p.s. don't you guys have anything better to do on a saturday?j/k

[Jerosu]

Thoskins is right on. It can be done, I had to do the same thing. My usb flash drive is now z: everytime I plug it in.

[cadcam]

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I think you would have to do that every time you plugged the USB drive back in. It might work for your current session, but once you unplugged it you would loose that explicit assignment.

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Actully sense the Machine drive is alwas mapped he should change that one and it will stay. the USB one will 95% time go to the next Drive Letter.

[bryan314]

if you use the Disk Management solution thoskins outlined XP will remember the drive letter. I've done it with my mp3 player and thumbdrive.

[Greg Williams]

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if you use the Disk Management solution thoskins outlined XP will remember the drive letter. I've done it with my mp3 player and thumbdrive.

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This is Correct I have my USB drive mapped to Z