PC won't remember drive letter

I've never used tape to do backups before, but to the best of my knowledge, what you want to do cannot be done. Every drive has to have a different drive letter unless it is like WHS said you leave a blank drive letter which is next in line for windows to assign to it. But even then, if you plug something else in, it will have that letter by default. So, the software you are using will need to be the key. The software could be programed to back up to 1 drive on one day and the next drive the next day and so on and you would still get what you want. That is the only way I can think of to do it.

It is not the computer not remembering, it is the rules of the computer that each drive must have a different drive letter. That is the only way the computer distinguishes one drive from another.

Ok. Instead of having your script copy the files to a drive letter, would it be possible to have it copy to a drive name? I use FreeFileSync which does something similar to what your script does. It has an option to mirror files from folders (or a drive) to folders on another drive (or the drive itself). That second drive can be identified by the drive name instead of the drive letter. That way, it doesn't matter what the drive letter is as long as all the destination drives have the same drive name.

pkerr said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Ok. Instead of having your script copy the files to a drive letter, would it be possible to have it copy to a drive name? I use FreeFileSync which does something similar to what your script does. It has an option to mirror files from folders (or a drive) to folders on another drive (or the drive itself). That second drive can be identified by the drive name instead of the drive letter. That way, it doesn't matter what the drive letter is as long as all the destination drives has the same drive name.

When you say drive name I'm assuming it is the name that I see next to the drive letter? For instance when I connect the drive I see:
Back up G:

Yes.

pmshah said:

Why not use good old command line to assign Z: to the drive that is plugged in as a conditional command of there being a folder or file being there in the root. Try Take Command LE. That will solve your problem.

Considering the last previous post was back in February, I suspect the issue was already taken care of a long time ago.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

pmshah said:

Why not use good old command line to assign Z: to the drive that is plugged in as a conditional command of there being a folder or file being there in the root. Try Take Command LE. That will solve your problem.

Considering the last previous post was back in February, I suspect the issue was already taken care of a long time ago.

OMG!! That shuts down some "innovative" ideas ( really ???) from jumanji :)

No, that is not going to happen.

So jumanji goes on to a new thread under General Discussions. How to make Windows assign the same drive letter to all externals ( only one drive at a time)

Soon to be released.

EDIT: Released: https://www.sevenforums.com/general-d...externals.html ( moved from General Discussion to this subforum)