copy to device by volume name

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I am operating in a pure Windows XP environment. I want to be able to make a mirror copy of a set of folders on another drive on the same machine. But the target drive is a USB-attached drive, so I can never be sure that the drive letter is stable or that the correct drive is, in fact, mounted on the computer at any given time. So I need to be able to specify the target device by volume name, not by drive letter. Is this possible with either of your versions?

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8769

Currently that is not possible, but we are planning to add this feature in one of our future releases...
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Astenz · Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 22

I think you can do a little work around here...
Yes you can assign a drive letter for your USB drive like W: and each time you plug this drive, Widows will take the W: drive letter (W: as an exemple).

To do so, right click "My computer", Manage, select "Disk Management", find your disk in the lower right section (ex: Disk1 40GB Ntfs...), right click on the description and select "Change Drive letter and Paths", click modify and chose W:, click OK. Now your done! Each time you plug your USB Drive Windows will assign the W: driver letter!

Good luck! Cool

Astenz

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8769

I knew this was possible on 2003 but I was not aware of the same on XP. That's great! Thank you Astenz Wink

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Astenz · Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 22

By the way:
You can do the same procedure on Win2000Pro and server.
Cool

Am glad to see my post was usefull!
Astenz

Guest · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:15 pm Post subject:

you can also put your drive into a NAS case, they are not very expensive. your drive is then availible with a fix ip-adress Smile