External USB hard drive, drive letters

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Vic Abrahamian

Hi
We have 5 editing workstations with Windows XP SP2 and about 15 users who
use these 5 workstations. Each user has an External USB drive.
Is there a way to force one drive letter for all users that plug in their
External USB drives into these 5 computers?
For example when a user plugs in their hard drive to PC 1 or PC 2 or PC 3 or
PC 4 or PC 5, they should see the same drive letter "O" as their external
drive.
Currently it seems to be changing on us and it's out of our control.
Thank you
 
"Vic Abrahamian" <VicAbrahamian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> We have 5 editing workstations with Windows XP SP2 and about 15 users who
> use these 5 workstations. Each user has an External USB drive.
> Is there a way to force one drive letter for all users that plug in their
> External USB drives into these 5 computers?
> For example when a user plugs in their hard drive to PC 1 or PC 2 or PC 3
> or
> PC 4 or PC 5, they should see the same drive letter "O" as their external
> drive.
> Currently it seems to be changing on us and it's out of our control.
> Thank you
>

USBDLM might help you: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
 
If they are identical drives i think that would be the default behaviour
(you should find most of them identical) - exception being if another type
of device (pen drive) has already been installed/identified by one of the
machines where it has allocate a drive letter - but in this case you can
simply open that particular computer/hardware properties and uninstall the
foreign device and then plug in/install your std drive



"Vic Abrahamian" <VicAbrahamian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| Hi
| We have 5 editing workstations with Windows XP SP2 and about 15 users who
| use these 5 workstations. Each user has an External USB drive.
| Is there a way to force one drive letter for all users that plug in their
| External USB drives into these 5 computers?
| For example when a user plugs in their hard drive to PC 1 or PC 2 or PC 3
or
| PC 4 or PC 5, they should see the same drive letter "O" as their external
| drive.
| Currently it seems to be changing on us and it's out of our control.
| Thank you
|
 
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