Any way to set up ide Zip drive as B: for win XP?

[DuckmanX]

Hey all,

I am trying to configure my IDE ZIP 100 (currently E:\) to be renamed to B:\ within WinXP SP2

Now, I have searched around and it seems impossible because of the floppy reservation that is set.
Are there any tweaks, hacks, or loopholes I can use to configure a drive as the B: other than a floppy?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
DuckmanX

 

[networkman]

Because B: is reserved for a local floppy drive, I don't think there's any way to assign a drive that letter via Disk Management or the like, however, you can Map a Network Drive to B:

When I tried it a few minutes ago, I used a USB flash drive that was assigned drive letter E: by default; the OS wouldn't allow me to map a drive directly to another drive, however, if I first Shared the drive as another name, in this case TEST, I could then map a network drive called B: to \\mypcname\TEST and it worked fine.

My OS is Win2K sp4, but I imagine XP would be similar. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any way to then free up E: and just use B:

 

[DuckmanX]

networkman,

Yeah, the closest I came was a network drive mapping to B:\ but nothing locally...

We'll I'm still searching for a way, but it seems quite bleak.

Thanks.

DuckmanX

 

[phillc]

Could you share the drive, and then map it as B?

 

[Abzstrak]

hmm, I've done this before, didnt think anything of it.... was on win2k3 server, setup a 250gb drive as drive b to run some backups to (hence the choice of drive b... havent tried in anything else, just tried changing my cdrom drive on my laptop here and it wont let me.....

 

[awal]

hmm thats wierd, windows let me change my usb thumb drive from Z: to B:

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: adrianwalters
hmm thats wierd, windows let me change my usb thumb drive from Z: to B:

Me too.

 

[bloinkXP]

You could use the subst command.

 

[ColKurtz]

I was going to suggest trying subst, as well. Also OP... if you explain why you want to do this you may get helpful workarounds.