Forcing the drive letter of a firewire/USB2.0 HD or CD drive

Birdseye · Post by **Birdseye** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:14 pm

My main system's keyboard input fried, so it's being RMAed to gigabyte.

All my music files (my own compositions) are on the D drive of that computer. I have a firewire HD enclosure, and I could just stick the drive in there and connect up to my laptop. Unfortunately, all the music song files look for all the files on the D drive.
Since the RMA process will only take about 2 weeks, I'd rather not go through each song, relocate all the files, then stick them back into my other computer and relocate them again. It's a pain in the butt with the way Cubase SX does it.

Since I haven't been able to figure out how to force the drive letter of a firewire/USB HD (maybe you guys know) another idea would be to force the letter of the CD rom to E, and then the FW drive would just take D, and my problems would be solved.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:28 pm

You might be able to do it through Computer Management under your Admin tools (if you've got 2000/XP installed). Select "Disk Management" and see if it shows up in the listing. Right-click and select "Change drive letters and paths". However, you might want to do this after disconnecting the CD drive.

Birdseye · Post by **Birdseye** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:52 pm

Solved. Thanks!

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 8:22 pm

There is no need to disconnect the cdrom drive MD, you can just move the CDROM drive to F:, then move the HDD to D:, then move the CDROM to E:.

On my computer I have C: D: and E: hard drives, a DVD burner and a CDRW, then a virtual DVD drive as F: G: and H:.

Birdseye · Post by **Birdseye** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 10:26 pm

Yup, I didn't disconnect ★■◆● ;p