Re: Blind drive

Hi, Van.

What does Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) say about your hard drives and
other devices, such as CD/DVD drives and USB flash drives?

One of the most useful things you can do with Disk Management (and some
other utilities) is to assign each "drive" a name, or label. "Drive"
letters are transient and change when you reboot to a different operating
system. Volume labels are written onto the disk and don't shift. So my
"Vista x64" is Drive C: when I'm running Vista x64, but it might be Drive F:
when I reboot into WinXP x86 - but the label is "Vista x64" in both systems.
And these labels show up in Windows Explorer and other places, too.

Another thing to do with Disk Management is to explicitly assign drive
letters, especially to removable devices, such as flash drives. If you
assign "S" to your SanDisk card reader, for example, it should be "S" no
matter how often you unplug it and plug it in again, rather than have
Windows assign it "the next available letter" each time. We have 26 "drive"
letters available; no need to limit ourselves to C: and D:. My Win7 RC is
now installed on X: and is just as happy as when I was running the earlier
beta on J:.

Disk Management has been included in every Windows version starting with
Win2K, but many users still haven't even found it, much less explored it
(and its convoluted but very informative Help file) to learn the many things
that it can do.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 RC 7100

"Van Chocstraw" <> wrote in message
news: ...
> I have Windows 7 ultimate RC1 installed on C drive and W2K installed on D
> drive.
> With W2K booted I can see both drives in windows explorer and transfer
> file between C and D just fine.
>
> With Windows 7 booted I cannot see the D drive at all. It named the DVD
> drive D. It will not see the W2k partition at all. Both are formated NTFS.

On Thu, 07 May 2009 11:16:44 -0400, Van Chocstraw wrote:

> R. C. White wrote:
>> Hi, Van.
>>
>> What does Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) say about your hard drives and
>> other devices, such as CD/DVD drives and USB flash drives?
>>
>> One of the most useful things you can do with Disk Management (and some
>> other utilities) is to assign each "drive" a name, or label. "Drive"
>> letters are transient and change when you reboot to a different
>> operating system. Volume labels are written onto the disk and don't
>> shift. So my "Vista x64" is Drive C: when I'm running Vista x64, but it
>> might be Drive F: when I reboot into WinXP x86 - but the label is "Vista
>> x64" in both systems. And these labels show up in Windows Explorer and
>> other places, too.
>>
>> Another thing to do with Disk Management is to explicitly assign drive
>> letters, especially to removable devices, such as flash drives. If you
>> assign "S" to your SanDisk card reader, for example, it should be "S" no
>> matter how often you unplug it and plug it in again, rather than have
>> Windows assign it "the next available letter" each time. We have 26
>> "drive" letters available; no need to limit ourselves to C: and D:. My
>> Win7 RC is now installed on X: and is just as happy as when I was
>> running the earlier beta on J:.
>>
>> Disk Management has been included in every Windows version starting with
>> Win2K, but many users still haven't even found it, much less explored it
>> (and its convoluted but very informative Help file) to learn the many
>> things that it can do.
>>
>> RC
>
> OK RC, that worked. I made the W2K drive I:. Just don't know why
> install didn't make it D: at the time of installation like every other
> OS does since it IS the second partition on the SAME drive. I guess
> Windows 7 is going to be the 'odd fellow'.

On my laptop I instructed Windows Explorer not to show drive letters. It
makes Vista a little more Mac-like (not really); also it confuses me a bit
:-)

It does work better when every drive has a name...but one reason it's
confusing is that the drives end up in alphabetical name order, rather than
drive letter order.

It's in Organize - Folder and search options - View, maybe two thirds of
the way down.

I recommend neither for or against it, just an idea if you wish to try it;
I expect I'll turn drive letters back on one of these days :-)

--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

"Van Chocstraw" <> wrote in message
news:ce6dnS-...
> R. C. White wrote:
>> Hi, Van.
>>
>> What does Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) say about your hard drives and
>> other devices, such as CD/DVD drives and USB flash drives?
>>
>> One of the most useful things you can do with Disk Management (and some
>> other utilities) is to assign each "drive" a name, or label. "Drive"
>> letters are transient and change when you reboot to a different operating
>> system. Volume labels are written onto the disk and don't shift. So my
>> "Vista x64" is Drive C: when I'm running Vista x64, but it might be Drive
>> F: when I reboot into WinXP x86 - but the label is "Vista x64" in both
>> systems. And these labels show up in Windows Explorer and other places,
>> too.
>>
>> Another thing to do with Disk Management is to explicitly assign drive
>> letters, especially to removable devices, such as flash drives. If you
>> assign "S" to your SanDisk card reader, for example, it should be "S" no
>> matter how often you unplug it and plug it in again, rather than have
>> Windows assign it "the next available letter" each time. We have 26
>> "drive" letters available; no need to limit ourselves to C: and D:. My
>> Win7 RC is now installed on X: and is just as happy as when I was running
>> the earlier beta on J:.
>>
>> Disk Management has been included in every Windows version starting with
>> Win2K, but many users still haven't even found it, much less explored it
>> (and its convoluted but very informative Help file) to learn the many
>> things that it can do.
>>
>> RC
>
> OK RC, that worked. I made the W2K drive I:. Just don't know why install
> didn't make it D: at the time of installation like every other OS does
> since it IS the second partition on the SAME drive. I guess Windows 7 is
> going to be the 'odd fellow'.


Van--

If you read my first post to you, using Diskmanagent was explicitly
suggestion #2!!!!!!!!!
LOL literally 2 hours after you posted back at 12:38AM!!!!

CH