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Drive letter management of hot-plug devices
USB Safely Remove allows to manage assigning of letters to hot-plug drives and gives the following features:
Preventing the system from assigning specified letters to hot-plug drives

If you have one or more network drives connected as well as you actively use USB devices, Windows on its restart may mount a USB device to the letter of a network drive or vice versa. In this case the network drive will be unavailable or it can be mounted to annother drive letter which is inconvenient, when you have program shortcuts to this drive.

To tell USB Safely Remove what letters must not be assigned to your hot-plug devices, enable "Prohibit to assign the following drive letters to hot-plug devices" option at the "Drive letters" tab of the program Options:

Mounting hot-plug drives as folders of a fixed drive
If you have several external drives, Windows may mount the same drive to different letters on system restart. It might be unuseful, especially if you setup data backup software for this drive. In this case it is convenient to have these drives mounted as folders of your fixed NTFS drive and disable assigning of the letters to the drives. Fo example you can mount all your external drives to the folder of drive C: - C:\Externals. You can see benefits of this solution from the figure below. In short, all your external drives will have clear fixed names, as well as you can see which drives are connected at the moment ("Backup Drive", "JetFlash 1 GB") and which not.

In order to mount a hot-plug drive as a folder:

  1. Enter to the device properties
  2. Switch to "Drive properties" tab
  3. At the left part of the dialog choose your required drive if there are more than one drive
  4. Enable "Mount drive as a folder" option (see pos. 1) and specify an empty NTFS folder where you want to connect the drive to (you can choose a folder using "..." button). Also you may fully detach the drive letter (see pos. 2).
  5. Press "OK" button to save settings
External drives can be mounted only to empty NTFS drive's folder!
Changing drive letters directly in the program
You can change drive letter of a device or even disable it to hide device drive in Explorer.

In order to change drive letter:

  1. Enter to the device properties
  2. Switch to "Drive properties" tab
  3. At the left part of the dialog choose your required drive if there are more than one drive
  4. In the "Drive letter" dropdown list choose a needed drive letter. "No" item means that a letter will be disabled for this drive, and you will not see it in Explorer.
  5. Press "OK" button to save settings
Hidding of empty card reader drives from the system!
Do you have a card reader with several slots? If you said "yes", you would likely use only one memory card at a time, however your card reader creates up to 4 drives in your system. It may be annoying because you are required to spend more time finding the memory card drive among other "empty" card reader drives.

In order to enable an option to hide empty card reader slots:

  1. Go to the program options ( button in the stop menu)
  2. Switch to "Drive Letters" tab and enable option "Hide drive letters when there are no media inserted" there
  3. Press "OK" to save settings
 
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