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In C# how do you detect is a specific drive is a Hard Drive, Network Drive, CDRom, or floppy?
Started by StubbornMule on
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Removable, // The drive....
NoRootDirectory, // The drive does not have a root directory.
DriveInfo d in allDrives) { Console.WriteLine("Drive {0}", d.Name); Console.WriteLine(" File type: {0, // The type of drive is unknown.
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Is there a way to reserve a drive letter for an external hard drive?
Started by Toro on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
You can assign a drive to appear as a directory in an existing filesystem....
Permanently assign a drive letter to a particular USB device without third party applications - I find letter assignments sometimes stick for a while but soon revert.
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I have 2 drives in my PC. I want to reformat the main drive and start windows again from scratch.
My secondary hard drive is NTFS.
After reformatting drive 1, will drive 2 work as normal and be totally readable?
Started by Jon on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
As a precaution you might also want to disconnect the drive you are not formatting during (in the select partition screen) not ....
Folders or files on drive but with enough determination you can add your new credentials to the Permissions.
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I have scripts that expect specific drive letters for hard drives. Windows sometimes assigns the different drive letters [e.g. I expected my Maxtor drive to be E but it's now F, therefore my scripts will fail], depending on the order of how the drives...
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It automatically....
Running as service makes it independent drive letters.
USBDLM is a Windows service that gives control over Window's drive letter assignment for USB drives.
The USB Drive Letter Manager for Windows is your friend.
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Simple question, I have two drives, Drive A and Drive B. I have Windows XP installed to Drive A and I want to install Ubuntu to Drive B. Is there a way to install Ubuntu to Drive B without it modifying (like updating the boot loader) to Drive A?
I want...
Started by Chris on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
If you want to make super-duper sure that Drive A isn't touched during the install....
Basically, you need to make Drive B first the windows installation on Drive A.
Can install to Drive B without touching Drive A, though.
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I would like to assign a drive letter to a GMail drive so that I could script some output to it. Are they any hacks to get this to work?
Started by Adam Tegen on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
It's like being attached to a hard drive over a bad a vitual (namespace) drive, sync....
Have a look at GMail Drive
GMail Drive no longer works (well) -- Google put rate limits into Gmail to prevent this kind of (ab)use of Gmail.
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Lost UK Driving licence, drink driving. Is poss to drive in Australia? Driving around is top of the list to do in aus and was wondering whether I can still drive if my licence is frozen for a year in the UK?
Any ideas would be great !
Started by Fastfling on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at finalgear):
When you do go for insurance in the UK you will find your premium heavily loaded and was wondering whether I can... .
More than two (Full size) beers - do not drive.
Of beers, does happen, and may be 'on' the limit always drive very carefully.
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I recently was given a small USB flash drive as an advertising gimmick. When I plug it in, only one drive appears: a CD drive with 42kb used (just an autorun.inf file which launches the manufacturer's website). I know U3 drives also appear as CD drives...
Started by mmyers on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Try....
The device identifies as a composite device containing two children - one for the CD drive and one for the removable storage drive.
This is done in hardware.
This is probably due to the drivers for the actual drive its self.
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Can the drive you choose to boot off affect performance? Would I receive faster boot/shutdown times if I were to choose a smaller drive? How would partitions affect performance/boot speed? Assuming all drives are the same RPM, lets say 7200.
Started by CT on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Can the drive you choose to boot off affect performance?
It can affect it, but most likely/shutdown times if I were to choose a smaller drive?
Doubtful How would partitions affect performance partitioning techniques geared towards performance....
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Hi,
I have a hard drive which is 153 GB with 116 GB free space. I would like to clone this drive to a hard drive which is a 149 GB big (this is the largest hard drive I have... It would be typical that my largest drive is only 4 GB to small... :)). Is...
Started by Kryten on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
EASEUS ToDo Backup is a free to a few GB below your destination drive....
Symantec Ghost v11 will do that, you can clone the source drive to any destination as long as the used data do not exceed the disk space available on the target drive.
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