Hi,

I have Windows Vista, and I like to make my external usb hard disk
stay at D: drive even after I reboot the system. Would anyone please
shed a light?
Thanks in advance.

KeeKee wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have Windows Vista, and I like to make my external usb hard disk
> stay at D: drive even after I reboot the system. Would anyone please
> shed a light?
> Thanks in advance.
>[/color]

Leaving your external drive connected and turned on like that isn't a
good idea.

Alias

Never mind Alias - it's a Linux Troll who gives ill advise intentionally to
cause pain to Windows users.

Now I don't know how to fixate Drive Letter as it changes dynamiclaly to
reflect currently installed drives, so if you don't change the number of
drives the same letter should remain for your portable, if you dynamically
attach/detach, the letters will be assigned just in alphabetical order
except for A: & B: which were historically reserved for floppies (if you're
too young you won't udnerstand what I mean by floppies), and C: for primary
harddisk, all else is quite random.
But why do you bother???

Most people NAME their diskdrives, yes I wish I could have the same letter
for the same drive besides A, B, C which are fixated alreadde, but we use
names.
E.g. I named my C:\ as "MAIN FOLDER", external USB as "MINIFOLDER1",
external USB another as "MINIFOLDER2", USBflashstick as "SOLIDFOLDER"
And names don't change sinec it's written intto the drive.

But again i am not too deeply knowledged on this, as I don't care for having
the same letter assigned, so PLEASE:

WAIT FOR MORE RESPONSES.
Don't listen to Alias or DanS or whatever name he chooses next, it's a known
pest on Windows forums who comes here to promote hobbyist Operating System
known as Linux.

Did you also know you can configure whether Drive Letter apears BEFORE or
AFTER diskdrive name? As little importance as it might seem to have, some
people are bothered why how Vista changed it from WinXP and from historical
Win/DOS.
But you cna change that, Google for it... I forgot, but I did change on my
machien to my preference, you can too...

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:44:18 -0700 (PDT), KeeKee wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have Windows Vista, and I like to make my external usb hard disk
> stay at D: drive even after I reboot the system. Would anyone please
> shed a light?
> Thanks in advance.[/color]

Right click on Computer, select Manage from the menu, and in the resulting
Explorer-like window, choose Disk Management (it's under Storage, if it's
not visible).

There you can assign a permanent letter to your drive: right click on the
drive, and choose Change Drive letter and paths.

--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

Plug it in, go to disk management, assign it a drive letter and the computer
will remember it.


"KeeKee" <chenkeekee******.com> wrote in message
news:a9e39c6a-d982-4f0f-bd6c-83a34d05a208@g7g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have Windows Vista, and I like to make my external usb hard disk
> stay at D: drive even after I reboot the system. Would anyone please
> shed a light?
> Thanks in advance.
>[/color]