External Drive Letter Change and Playlist issues

[Dmarti29]

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..

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Dmarti29

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..

i am running a show using my laptop too, and i have 2 ext.hhd , a mouse and a ext.cd/dvd drives plugged in all the usb port, (all cables are routed on a certain way,)with one extra usb port remaining, and also my s-video cable is plugged in too, all of them are plugged in all the tme , and all the power cabels are plugged into a power conditioner, so it's not really impossible to have all the usb cables plugged in at all times..it takes me 15 minutes to set up..no plugging and unplugging except of course the power from the wall and all of them are in a case..

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Dmarti29

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..

Read my post/answer to this in your other thread.

[swany]

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!

[Mitd9922]

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?

[Roy Dennis]

This is the way to change drive letter on Vista.
Go to Control panel/Administrative tools/Computer managment/Storage /Disk managment. scroll to the drive, right click & from drop down menu select "Change drive letter & path" from the next window press change assign new letter and press ok.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Mitd9922

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?

Is this Vista? You haven't said whether it is Vista or XP. If it is Vista have you done all of the required changes to the computer from this page?
http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/v...de-hoster4.htm
If it is XP make sure you have dones these items:
http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/xp-changes.htm

[Mitd9922]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Is this Vista? You haven't said whether it is Vista or XP. If it is Vista have you done all of the required changes to the computer from this page?
http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/v...de-hoster4.htm
If it is XP make sure you have dones these items:
http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/xp-changes.htm

This is an XP machine with all the original things that (3.314)? previous versions had turned off or on. It ran perfectly before the upgrade but I think it may have backed up files to my Hard drive and filled it up.

Does the KMA file listed on the drive contain the music and lyrics? Or is this two different files combined by Hoster? This is an essspecially important part of my question because the file recovery I'm running as I type (on different CPU ) will take too long to get all the duplicated files off my old drive thus making me miss a gig tonight. If I can just load one copy onto my new drive I'll make the show!!Help!!

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Mitd9922

Does the KMA file listed on the drive contain the music and lyrics? Or is this two different files combined by Hoster? !!

A .kma file is a single file containing both music & Lyrics.

Did you try resetting the drive letter as in my previous post, it is near enough the same procedure for XP.