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[ddouglass]

I have had externals change drive letter on me from one set up to the next, so it isn't always so Wallymeister. Your internal drives won't change once they are set but the externals can, especially if you open a windows session without it and shutdown or restart. Then the next time you turn it on in a session it is fair game for Windows to choose the letter.

[leeklitz]

After you do the song database how do you get hoster to recognize the drive, or how do you add the drive letter to hoster?

[ddouglass]

Building the song database is where you identify the drive for hoster. There isn't anything else to do.

[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