[Jyujinkai]

Hi there-.... got a strange problem..

I have much of my collection on various 2TB drives. I do not always have them plugged in. What I do I scan them into the library, then I can switch them on or off as I wish. (I uses a prefex in the naming system to group them so I know watch one to turn on)

Anyway, that was the plan.

The problem is that when I reboot the computer sometimes when the drive initializes it uses a different drive letter. So all the library data can not find it. So I though.. no problem. I'll connect to them though the netwrok share that is constant.. but again.. no dice... as each time I scan the library it rescans everything and I end up with 2 copies in the library for each film.

So is there a way to force windows7 to assign the same drive letters to specific usb external drives?

[Vaikin]

http://superuser.com/questions/16197/any...ive-letter

I know it'll change the driver letter, but no idea if it'll stick long term.

[dandnsmith]

If you name the filesystem on the drive, you may be able to get it always on the same drive letter - I haven't tried this, but some observations suggest that combining this with some of the suggestions in the linked thread might help.

[Kib]

google is your friend:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

assign letters for a specific USB drive by putting an INI file on the drive

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USBDLM runs as Win32 service under Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7/8 and Server 2008 (R2). An x64 version for the x64 Edition of Windows is available too.