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| pebe |
Posted - Apr 09 2011 : 10:27:44 AM
I have two USB pen drives each containing the portable 'RoboForm2Go' program and a boot.ini file.
If I plug in each one, in turn, it comes up with a different drive letter. Why? |
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| Aaron Cake |
Posted - Apr 10 2011 : 10:40:22 AM
Does one USB key have U3 and one not? |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Apr 10 2011 : 02:42:24 AM
Well all USB devices should have unique hardware descriptors. These numbers are programmed into the device and cannot be changed unless they can be hacked. This is how an OS can identify a particular class of USB device and load the appropriate drivers for it. Without these descriptors the OS wouldn't know what to do with your USB pen drives. So that may be the subtle reason why windows knows the answer to the 'Find the Lady' card trick! LOL |
| pebe |
Posted - Apr 09 2011 : 2:53:45 PM
I think it's a bit more subtle than that. I can juggle these three drives about and plug any one of them in at random.
The computer always knows which one is the LeoDisk - as though it knows the answer to the 'Find the Lady' card trick! |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Apr 09 2011 : 12:35:20 PM
It might be windows remembering what the last drive letter was for that particular drive. You can change drive letters if you want to.
Administrative Tools -> Computer Management
-> Storage
-> Disk Management
Then right click on your volume and click on the button that lets yo change the drive letter. |
| pebe |
Posted - Apr 09 2011 : 12:10:46 PM
quote:
Originally posted by wasssup1990
Ummm... because they are two different pen drives. Am I missing something here?
One is a 'LeoDisk 2GB', the second is 'memory 4GB'.
I've copied the files onto a Kingston DT Mini Fun 1GB and it gives the same drive letter as the 'memory 4GB' one, so I don't think it's the size. |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Apr 09 2011 : 11:43:31 AM
Ummm... because they are two different pen drives. Am I missing something here? |
