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Windows 7 doesn't remember drive letter assignments on rotated removable drives
Hi all,
We have 10 removable drives (Addonics Diamond SATA system) which we are using for backup, we are assigning them the same drive letter (P:) as the backup software is set up to write to that drive letter, but each time we swap out a drive and put the next one in, the drive letter defaults back to the next available drive letter, which happens to be E:
This is on a Windows 7 64 bit system. How can we fix this so the drive letter P: on each of the 10 drives is remembered?
Cheers,
Richard
We have 10 removable drives (Addonics Diamond SATA system) which we are using for backup, we are assigning them the same drive letter (P:) as the backup software is set up to write to that drive letter, but each time we swap out a drive and put the next one in, the drive letter defaults back to the next available drive letter, which happens to be E:
This is on a Windows 7 64 bit system. How can we fix this so the drive letter P: on each of the 10 drives is remembered?
Cheers,
Richard
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Windows may remember if you set the drive to another letter. But you first have to do the same for all 10 and not have two at once. After it has been set for each of the 10 then it should remember the next time you put drive 1 in.
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All 10 drives have been set to the same letter after each was rotated in, but when put in again, the drive letter is not remembered.
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The Addonics cradle is attached to an Adaptec AAR-1220SA controller, and the drives have a GPT partition, if any of that helps.
That is the problem with a "cradle". How could the adaptec controller possibly differentiate between one in a cradle and one that is not in a cradle. Some controllers have a configurable parameter to set the hot swap bit. I have no idea if this particular model does, but it is probably no big deal to go through the BIOS entries and see if there is a hot-swap setting.
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The adaptec is configured as hot-swap, or what we are doing would not be working at all.
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first of all, it's not a USB drive - it's a hot-swap SATA drive, so it shows up in Windows as a hard drive, not removable.
Secondly, would the mount as folder method mean I can mount each of the 10 drives in the same empty folder on C: such that I just point the backup software to write to that folder and it just writes there, no matter which physical drive is in the cradle at the time?
first of all, it's not a USB drive - it's a hot-swap SATA drive, so it shows up in Windows as a hard drive, not removable.
Secondly, would the mount as folder method mean I can mount each of the 10 drives in the same empty folder on C: such that I just point the backup software to write to that folder and it just writes there, no matter which physical drive is in the cradle at the time?
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it's too much bother trying to write a script, so thinking of just reconfiguring the backup software to write to E: which is the next generally available drive letter,and which is what each removable drive defaults to when it gets dropped in.
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