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Dave

In addition to the standard A & C drives, I have an additional HD
partitioned into drives D & E, plus 2 additional removable disc
drives F & G. Occasionally, I add an external HD (USB) temporarily for
backup purposes.

Initially, the external HD was set as the H drive. Somewhere along the way,
my comp decided this drive should be the I drive, and added a new mysterious
removable drive which it decided to call H. The H drive now insists I
should inset a disk every time I try to do something with it.

How do I get rid of this H drive, and get my external back to being the H
drive?

Win XP SP2

Thx
Dave
 
Dave wrote:

> In addition to the standard A & C drives, I have an additional HD
> partitioned into drives D & E, plus 2 additional removable disc
> drives F & G. Occasionally, I add an external HD (USB) temporarily for
> backup purposes.
>
> Initially, the external HD was set as the H drive. Somewhere along the way,
> my comp decided this drive should be the I drive, and added a new mysterious
> removable drive which it decided to call H. The H drive now insists I
> should inset a disk every time I try to do something with it.
>
> How do I get rid of this H drive, and get my external back to being the H
> drive?
>
> Win XP SP2
>
> Thx
> Dave
>

With the external HD plugged into the computer, open Disk Management
from the Control Panel. Check the drive letters against the hardware.
If there is no Drive H and the current Drive I is the original Drive H,
then re-assign Drive H to it. OTOH, if there is a Drive H that is there,
then what is it? If real, then its drive letter can also be assigned to
something different, making it possible to return Drive H to the external
HD.
 
If you added a USB printer that has a card reader on it, that could be your
mysterious H drive. Do as GHalleck advised, go into drive management,
reassign the H drive to a higher, unused drive letter and then reassign the
I drive to the H letter.

Let us know if this is the case and it solves your issue. Thanks.


"GHalleck" <ghalleck@arrakian.mining.com> wrote in message
news:u5plD2k7HHA.3716@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
> Dave wrote:
>
>> In addition to the standard A & C drives, I have an additional HD
>> partitioned into drives D & E, plus 2 additional removable disc
>> drives F & G. Occasionally, I add an external HD (USB) temporarily for
>> backup purposes.
>>
>> Initially, the external HD was set as the H drive. Somewhere along the
>> way,
>> my comp decided this drive should be the I drive, and added a new
>> mysterious
>> removable drive which it decided to call H. The H drive now insists I
>> should inset a disk every time I try to do something with it.
>>
>> How do I get rid of this H drive, and get my external back to being the H
>> drive?
>>
>> Win XP SP2
>>
>> Thx
>> Dave
>>
>
> With the external HD plugged into the computer, open Disk Management
> from the Control Panel. Check the drive letters against the hardware.
> If there is no Drive H and the current Drive I is the original Drive H,
> then re-assign Drive H to it. OTOH, if there is a Drive H that is there,
> then what is it? If real, then its drive letter can also be assigned to
> something different, making it possible to return Drive H to the external
> HD.
 
BINGO -
Right on - I never would have figured that one out in a thousands years.

Sure enough, my printer died and was replaced with one (USB) which has
camera card slots. I have no use for the camera interface feature, so never
gave it a thought.

Thank you all - very impressive !!!

Dave



"LVTravel" <noone@nothere.com> wrote in message
news:O6IDuHm7HHA.4660@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> If you added a USB printer that has a card reader on it, that could be
> your mysterious H drive. Do as GHalleck advised, go into drive
> management, reassign the H drive to a higher, unused drive letter and then
> reassign the I drive to the H letter.
>
> Let us know if this is the case and it solves your issue. Thanks.
>
>
> "GHalleck" <ghalleck@arrakian.mining.com> wrote in message
> news:u5plD2k7HHA.3716@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>
>> Dave wrote:
>>
>>> In addition to the standard A & C drives, I have an additional HD
>>> partitioned into drives D & E, plus 2 additional removable disc
>>> drives F & G. Occasionally, I add an external HD (USB) temporarily for
>>> backup purposes.
>>>
>>> Initially, the external HD was set as the H drive. Somewhere along the
>>> way,
>>> my comp decided this drive should be the I drive, and added a new
>>> mysterious
>>> removable drive which it decided to call H. The H drive now insists I
>>> should inset a disk every time I try to do something with it.
>>>
>>> How do I get rid of this H drive, and get my external back to being the
>>> H
>>> drive?
>>>
>>> Win XP SP2
>>>
>>> Thx
>>> Dave
>>>
>>
>> With the external HD plugged into the computer, open Disk Management
>> from the Control Panel. Check the drive letters against the hardware.
>> If there is no Drive H and the current Drive I is the original Drive H,
>> then re-assign Drive H to it. OTOH, if there is a Drive H that is there,
>> then what is it? If real, then its drive letter can also be assigned to
>> something different, making it possible to return Drive H to the external
>> HD.
>
>
 
Glad to have helped and thanks for the reply back. Lets us know that we are
sometimes on the right track.


"Dave" <djbahb@dcwis.com> wrote in message
news:eKVqwuv7HHA.2208@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> BINGO -
> Right on - I never would have figured that one out in a thousands years.
>
> Sure enough, my printer died and was replaced with one (USB) which has
> camera card slots. I have no use for the camera interface feature, so
> never gave it a thought.
>
> Thank you all - very impressive !!!
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> "LVTravel" <noone@nothere.com> wrote in message
> news:O6IDuHm7HHA.4660@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> If you added a USB printer that has a card reader on it, that could be
>> your mysterious H drive. Do as GHalleck advised, go into drive
>> management, reassign the H drive to a higher, unused drive letter and
>> then reassign the I drive to the H letter.
>>
>> Let us know if this is the case and it solves your issue. Thanks.
>>
>>
>> "GHalleck" <ghalleck@arrakian.mining.com> wrote in message
>> news:u5plD2k7HHA.3716@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>> Dave wrote:
>>>
>>>> In addition to the standard A & C drives, I have an additional HD
>>>> partitioned into drives D & E, plus 2 additional removable disc
>>>> drives F & G. Occasionally, I add an external HD (USB) temporarily for
>>>> backup purposes.
>>>>
>>>> Initially, the external HD was set as the H drive. Somewhere along the
>>>> way,
>>>> my comp decided this drive should be the I drive, and added a new
>>>> mysterious
>>>> removable drive which it decided to call H. The H drive now insists I
>>>> should inset a disk every time I try to do something with it.
>>>>
>>>> How do I get rid of this H drive, and get my external back to being the
>>>> H
>>>> drive?
>>>>
>>>> Win XP SP2
>>>>
>>>> Thx
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>
>>> With the external HD plugged into the computer, open Disk Management
>>> from the Control Panel. Check the drive letters against the hardware.
>>> If there is no Drive H and the current Drive I is the original Drive H,
>>> then re-assign Drive H to it. OTOH, if there is a Drive H that is there,
>>> then what is it? If real, then its drive letter can also be assigned to
>>> something different, making it possible to return Drive H to the
>>> external
>>> HD.
>>
>>
>
>
 
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