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[Wallymeister]

ddouglass,
My External drive without fail is always recognized as K, so I don't understand what you are saying. The previous post was copy and pasted from windows help. You have to tell it to always assign this drive letter to this volume, otherwise they will possibly change depending on what else you have hooked up etc. I am using XP pro so maybe it's only available in pro.

You have to do this in disc management section of control panel.
Wally

[ddouglass]

Contrary to what MS says, if you remove that drive from the system for a while (take it to another system for instance), shutdown or restart that system and bring the drive back later it will change the drive letter, because disk management will forget.

[Wallymeister]

I've done everything you just described here and I've never experienced a problem. It still reads it as K drive when I bring it back to my original computer. My external HD for kma's & also flash drives too.

Just lucky I guess.
Wally

[horseshoe]

Wally, take that drive and put it into another computer and put a different one on this one. Then put the original one back into your computer while the new one is running and you may have any combination of drive letters.

I run multiple usb drives on several computers, and never know for sure if they will be the same each time. I also use XP Pro. If I simply unplug one and put it back into the same computer without putting a different one in during that time, it will remember the drive letter. However, if I use another one while that one is not being used by my first computer, it is a crap shoot when I plug it back in.

[leeklitz]

I've done the database but still can't bring the drive up in hoster I must be doing something wrong, I went through the steps three or four times but it still won't bring it up thanks rich

[ddouglass]

What do you mean by bringing the drive up in hoster? The songs don't show in your playlist when you try to add one?

When you did your build database, did you put the drive:\folder where the KMA files are located? Both locations?

If so try putting only the external drive folder in the box and build it to see if it is finding the drive.

[leeklitz]

the external drive is on drive f, they are in a folder named songs when I go into hoster, not sure where to go from there,when I do find the drive and bring it up click on the song want to add to playlist it dosen't go. Like i say I got to be doing something wrong.

[gpayne]

Originally Posted by leeklitz

the external drive is on drive f, they are in a folder named songs when I go into hoster, not sure where to go from there,when I do find the drive and bring it up click on the song want to add to playlist it dosen't go. Like i say I got to be doing something wrong.

I don't think you are being clear enough. From your message you say "when I go into Hoster, not sure where to go from there. I think you need to read the Hoster manual a little. If you have rebuilt the hoster songs database and then start hoster you should be able to go to the search menu and type in the name of a song. If the song is in the newly built database, you should be able to select a song by clicking on the book id number and clicking add. It will be added to the playlist. It seems to me if when you search for a song and nothing is found then maybe it can't find the drive letter of your external hard drive and you have to make sure that you are selecting the external drive when you build your songs database. If this is done properly, make sure when you start your machine that your external hard drive letter is the same as it was when you rebuilt your songs database.

gpayne