Changing Drive Letters (Page 2): Thanks, everyone. I'll have top spend some time with this later.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Thanks, everyone. I'll have top spend some time with this later.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

MrMophoto wrote:

Aside from being a little annoying what is the problem with restating, it's a simple fix.
My Brother, the family computer guru and Microsoft graduate (he retired from the company at 38) once told me if a computer develops a glitch or freezes just turn it off, pull the plug, etc, then turn it back on. Often times the reboot process will set everything back in order. I have used his advice many times, it has a high success rate.

Agreed, but you have to be careful with that. If the computer is in the middle of an I/O disk operation, you can corrupt the allocation table on the disk, which may be impossible to recover. As a minimum, make absolutely sure the disk access light is off.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

jerryc41 wrote:

I have SyncBackSE set to backup files to an external drive, G. If I have other external devices connected during the day, they will use the letter G and maybe H and I. Sometimes, ejecting the devices doesn't give me the G back, so I can't do a backup without restarting the computer.

I'll go to Disk Management to change the drive letter, and my choices will be A, B, K, L, etc. Is there a simple way to get back a missing letter, rather than restarting the computer?

Why can't you keep the G drive connected?

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

jerryc41 wrote:

Thanks, everyone. I'll have top spend some time with this later.

Gee Jerry
I never have that problem on my iMac

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

DirtFarmer wrote:

Why can't you keep the G drive connected?

It's connected, but it's seldom turned on because it's just for backup every couple of days. After rebooting, I was still missing the letter G, so I renamed the drive X and changed the seven destination folders in SyncBack to X. I wonder why G is no longer available on the computer.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Manglesphoto wrote:

Gee Jerry
I never have that problem on my iMac

You know, just because you have superior equipment, that doesn't give you the right to gloat.

I also use a Mac occasionally, and it's interesting how they avoid the use of drive letters.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I found my G. For some reason, Windows assigned one of my optical drives the letter G, probably after an update. I've never had that happen before.

JerryOSF Loc: Bristol, VA

Finding the 'G spot' can be very tricky, or so I've been told. I use linux, don't use drive letters. Mac OS is derived from linux.

Wasabi

jerryc41 wrote:

I have SyncBackSE set to backup files to an external drive, G. If I have other external devices connected during the day, they will use the letter G and maybe H and I. Sometimes, ejecting the devices doesn't give me the G back, so I can't do a backup without restarting the computer.

I'll go to Disk Management to change the drive letter, and my choices will be A, B, K, L, etc. Is there a simple way to get back a missing letter, rather than restarting the computer?

Have small portable drives that are used for backups etc. via USB cable. Somehow, at this point can't recall how, but I named them. For example , one is 'Seagate backup drive'. No matter where it is plugged in it shows up as Seagate backup drive. Sorry I can't provide step by step guidance.

MichaelH Loc: NorCal via Lansing, MI

JerryOSF wrote:

Finding the 'G spot' can be very tricky, or so I've been told. I use linux, don't use drive letters. Mac OS is derived from linux.

Mac OS X and Linux are both based on Unix which was developed at Bell Labs in the 1970s.

'Linux began in 1991 as a personal project by Finnish student Linus Torvalds' (wikipedia) and 'macOS is based on the Unix operating system and on technologies developed between 1985 and 1997 at NeXT, a company that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs created after leaving Apple in 1985' (wikipedia).

rck281 Loc: Overland Park, KS

MichaelH wrote:

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I agree. Pick a letter toward the end of the alphabet to assign to the drive and change the sync settings. There is also a setting to make empty drives visible.

AirWalter Loc: Tipp City, Ohio

jerryc41 wrote:

It's connected, but it's seldom turned on because it's just for backup every couple of days. After rebooting, I was still missing the letter G, so I renamed the drive X and changed the seven destination folders in SyncBack to X. I wonder why G is no longer available on the computer.

Because it is still assigned to a drive as far as the operating system is concerned!!!!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Wasabi wrote:

Have small portable drives that are used for backups etc. via USB cable. Somehow, at this point can't recall how, but I named them. For example , one is 'Seagate backup drive'. No matter where it is plugged in it shows up as Seagate backup drive. Sorry I can't provide step by step guidance.

I renamed my two externals X. I backup to one and then the other, so only one is active at a time. That makes it simpler to setup and use SyncBack.