Is it possible to assign a drive letter to a usb...drive and have it been the same on each pc?
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As far as I've been able to determine, (and somebody correct me if I'm wrong) Windows by default automatically uses the next available drive letter.
You can not "assign" a drive letter to a usb drive and have it be the same on every pc, windows has no feature or function for that.
You can however run a script to substitute a drive letter when you plug the drive in.
Google subst.exe.
Or you can use my Menu or StartUp Util
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What I did, was on all machines you have admin rights to, you go into Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management and changed the letter of the usb drive to always be J. Once its set the machine will always remember it. Since I primarily use my portable apps between three machines I own (deaktop, laptop, server) and I use CryptableApps and need admin rights anyway, its no big deal for me to have admin rights. I actually have a 2nd thumb drive I have a different setup of portable apps on, that I use at work, where I do not have admin rights.
someone made a substitute drive app on the forums, where it
doesnt actually change the drive letter, but instead assigns
it a different one,
e.g. I plug in my drive, and it shows up as E:.
I then run the app, and I have E: and something else as well, like T:.
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