I am one of those stubborn hangers-on still using the SUBST command. I find
nothing that comes close to the efficiency and navigational ease of being
able to assign drive letters to my critical folders, and I also find nothing
that approaches the ease of accomplishing that than the ancient SUBST.

My issue is with XP's inability to acknowledge/identify/honor those drive
letters. It looks right past them, so whenever I insert a jump drive that
the system hasn't seen before, it assigns the next drive letter to
it...which is invariably one of my SUBST drives. I need to spend 45 seconds
with Disk Manager to reassign the device to another letter further down the
alphabet.

I guess my first question is to invite anyone with an alternative to SUBST
to chime in. My second, and more engaging question is this:

Is there a way to "reserve" a series of drive letters, so the OS
knows to begin assignment of new volumes to a letter of my choosing?



Many thanks...



Rick Altman
Pleasanton, CA

"Rick Altman" <rick.a@NOSPAMaltman.com> wrote in message
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>I am one of those stubborn hangers-on still using the SUBST command. I find
>nothing that comes close to the efficiency and navigational ease of being
>able to assign drive letters to my critical folders, and I also find
>nothing that approaches the ease of accomplishing that than the ancient
>SUBST.
>
> My issue is with XP's inability to acknowledge/identify/honor those drive
> letters. It looks right past them, so whenever I insert a jump drive that
> the system hasn't seen before, it assigns the next drive letter to
> it...which is invariably one of my SUBST drives. I need to spend 45
> seconds with Disk Manager to reassign the device to another letter further
> down the alphabet.
>
> I guess my first question is to invite anyone with an alternative to SUBST
> to chime in. My second, and more engaging question is this:
>
> Is there a way to "reserve" a series of drive letters, so the OS
> knows to begin assignment of new volumes to a letter of my choosing?
Yes, it is the same way that has been around since at least Win98SE. The
capability is somewhere in the control panel. I forgot exactly where.
Jim
>
>
>
> Many thanks...
>
>
>
> Rick Altman
> Pleasanton, CA
>

"Rick Altman" <rick.a@NOSPAMaltman.com> wrote in message
news:eVqQQy3yFHA.2556@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>I am one of those stubborn hangers-on still using the SUBST command. I find
>nothing that comes close to the efficiency and navigational ease of being
>able to assign drive letters to my critical folders, and I also find
>nothing that approaches the ease of accomplishing that than the ancient
>SUBST.
>
> My issue is with XP's inability to acknowledge/identify/honor those drive
> letters. It looks right past them, so whenever I insert a jump drive that
> the system hasn't seen before, it assigns the next drive letter to
> it...which is invariably one of my SUBST drives. I need to spend 45
> seconds with Disk Manager to reassign the device to another letter further
> down the alphabet.
>
> I guess my first question is to invite anyone with an alternative to SUBST
> to chime in. My second, and more engaging question is this:
>
> Is there a way to "reserve" a series of drive letters, so the OS
> knows to begin assignment of new volumes to a letter of my choosing?
>
>
>
> Many thanks...
>
>
>
> Rick Altman
> Pleasanton, CA

You can map the folder to a network drive letter.

Yes click Start | Help & Support
type in Driver Letter , hit your enter key
under Suggested topics, click on "Assign a drive letter to a network
computer or folder"
read & follow the instructions that appear in the right hand window.

"Rick Altman" <rick.a@NOSPAMaltman.com> wrote in message
news:eVqQQy3yFHA.2556@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>I am one of those stubborn hangers-on still using the SUBST command. I find
>nothing that comes close to the efficiency and navigational ease of being
>able to assign drive letters to my critical folders, and I also find
>nothing that approaches the ease of accomplishing that than the ancient
>SUBST.
>
> My issue is with XP's inability to acknowledge/identify/honor those drive
> letters. It looks right past them, so whenever I insert a jump drive that
> the system hasn't seen before, it assigns the next drive letter to
> it...which is invariably one of my SUBST drives. I need to spend 45
> seconds with Disk Manager to reassign the device to another letter further
> down the alphabet.
>
> I guess my first question is to invite anyone with an alternative to SUBST
> to chime in. My second, and more engaging question is this:
>
> Is there a way to "reserve" a series of drive letters, so the OS
> knows to begin assignment of new volumes to a letter of my choosing?
>
>
>
> Many thanks...
>
>
>
> Rick Altman
> Pleasanton, CA
>