Maybe you think the default operating system's behavior is enough, but actually not for people that use the „subst“ feature. Substed drives are somehow invisible for the Disk Manager and a flash disk can be mapped to the same letter. Just assume besides your physical C: drive you have D: and E: substed. Now plug in you USB flash disk and voila! — it's assigned the D: letter… And without USBDLM you need to open the Control Panel, go to Administrative tools, open the Disk Manager, and change the letter yourself. It's not that bad if you use the same flash disk all the time, because Windows remembers your setting. However, when you change flash disks frequently, it soon starts to be a tedious task to do.
Actually this handy tool can do a lot more, as is described on its web page:
- check if the letter is used by a network share of the currently logged on user and assign the next letter that is really available
- assign a letter from a list of new default letters
- assign letters for a specific USB drive by putting an INI file on the drive
- assign letters for specific USB port
- remove the drive letters of multi-slot card readers until a card is inserted
- assign a letter for drives that got no mount point at all
- show a balloon tip with the assigned drive letter(s)
By the way, USBDLM is compatible with Windows Vista.
Also, you can look here for other useful tip'n'tricks for USB drives from the software's author.
3 comments:
Try this:
Connect your flash memory.
My Computer->Manage->Disk Management
Right click on volume of that disc->Change drive letter.
This works for me on WinXP.hgl
Sure it works. However, as soon as you start using the “subst” tool to assign driver letters to folders, Windows starts mapping new flash drives on these substed drive letter.
OK, I got it, you have problem only first time, when the new flash is connected.
Post a Comment