USB Flash Drive Assignment ?

[gltyrian]

My buddy called me this morning and asked if he can set a flash drive from g:\ or whatever it's assigned as to a:\ .. As I don't have a flash drive myself yet, I wasn't able to play around with it to help him figure out this question..

Does anybody know if this is possible, and if so, how?

He needs it to be a:\ because of some old software that he is running that only reads/writes to a:

Thanks for any suggestions,

Siao

 

[shortylickens]

Go to 'Start'... 'Administrative tools'... 'Computer Management'.

On the left side you should see an icon for 'Disk Management'.
Click it and look at your drives. Right click on them and you can change drive letters.

IF you dont have 'Admin Tools' available on your start menu: you can add them by right clicking on your task bar and going to 'Properties' and 'Customize'.

 

[beverage]

i didn't think you could re-assign a:\ or b:\ ... not sure though

 

[bacillus]

Originally posted by: beverage
i didn't think you could re-assign a:\ or b:\ ... not sure though

I think you're correct as those 2 letters are historically reserved for floppy drives.

 

[Funyuns101]

i have one of my usb drives set as "B" ... floppy is "A" though... no real problems~