Referencing Hard Drives

[jmsrickland]

Is it possible to reference hard drives by their names rather than their drive letters?

Or, can I globally change the drive letters that were assigned by the system on boot up? Example: Old E:\ is now H:\ but maybe tomorrow it might be I:\ or go back to E:\ depending on what I add or remove.

Here's my problem.

All of the shortcut icons on the desktop point to the source on a particular drive using drive letters.

However, when I add (or remove) drives these letters change the next time I boot and now the shortcut icons point to the wrong drive. I don't want to go into each property of each icon and change the drive letter to the new drive letter otherwise I would be doing that all the time as I add amd remove drives.

[Lord Orwell]

yes there is a way, but it's not as direct as that. You can share the hard drive through network neighborhood and then access it by its shared name.

HOWEVER, you have a 2nd option that is better for you.
run diskmgmt.msc and assign each hard drive a specific letter. Limit the range of drive letters it can have to only one letter and every time you install that hard drive from then on it will have the same letter.

[mbutler755]

Start --> Run --> DISKMGMT.MSC

[Lord Orwell]

Start --> Run --> DISKMGMT.MSC

assuming you have start menu set to show the run box. If not, hold down the windows key and press "r"