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External Drive Letter Change and Playlist issues
Can anyone tell me how they deal with Windows changing drive letters of an external hard drive? I know the reasons it happens and I know the suggested solution is to always use the same usb port, but even using the same port, the drive letter can change. Such as when I plug in both my external hard drive and my external plextor cd drive. Even plugging in a flash drive can cause the drive letter to change for my hard drive.
When this happens, all my playlists will not play. They all reference, internally in the file, the drive letter when the list was created. Once the drive letter changes, the playlist is no longer valid. Being somewhat comuter literate, I have created two playist, one for drive "g" and the other for drive "h", in my case. That way should the drive letter change I still have playlists that work, but its a real pain to maintain. Same is true with playlists I have that contain mp3 audio music, that I use for DJ shows without karaoke. I have to go into windows edit in DOS, open the files (binary open) and replace the drive letters then save as the other dirve directory name. Any suggestions?
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External Drive Letter Change and Playlist issues
Thanks for the reply. Its really not possible to keep a usb drive plugged in all the time. I am running the show on a laptop. I have been careful not to plug in any other devices so that my drive letter remains the same, but my show last week, the drive letter changed all by itself.
Still looking for help..
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BILLY O' WEEKEND.DJ Las Vegas, NV Last edited by billyo; December 8th, 2008 at 12:49 PM. |
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Plug it into the same port, above all do that first.
Your pc auto names to the next drive letter each time. If you plug in anything else it will name that as the next drive letter. Sound too easy, yep!
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Drive letter change
I plug and unplug at every show 4 times a week and the drive letter never changes. All music is available every time.
But now, I just upgraded to the newest version of Hoster and now my drive is not recognized. After doing a system restore back to version 3317 I still cannot access my drive. Any help? |
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