Originally Posted by Matt Finley
Regarding Simon's correct advice/caution: In Windows, drive letters A and B are for removable media (floppy disks!); thus, C is the normal expectation for a boot hard drive. D used to be for your CD drive (remember those?). So often, when you plugged in a flash drive, it would be letter E. But those days are long gone with the predominance of multiple internal drives. You can use Windows to reassign any drive letter, though I recommend you NOT reassign the boot drive from C to something else, because you still may run into old installers that insist on drive C for programs. Make sense?
The main problem is that Windows will automatically assign the next available drive letter whenever you plug in a drive.

For example, let's say you have only a C drive - plugging in your BB hard drive will cause Windows to assign it as drive D. Now let's say you also have a flash drive you use - plugging that in while the BB hard drive is connected will assign it as drive E.

Now let's say you have neither drive plugged in, and you plug in your flash drive - Windows will assign it as drive D. Now if you plug in your BB drive, Windows will assign it as drive E! Suddenly all the symlinks you created will try and access files that don't exist on your flash drive. Manually assigning drive letters like Matt suggested is one way around this, however:

The other problem is that symlinks often don't survive when they're pointing to removable drives, meaning that some day you'll come along to use BB and any parts of it that were symlinked will no longer work.

Personally I recommend just running BB from one drive - either install it completely to your internal storage, or run it completely from the external.

Originally Posted by Matt Finley
D used to be for your CD drive (remember those?)
Thanks for making me feel old!

But yes, I remember those - in fact, I still have 5 ancient computers that still have optical drives (three of which have floppy drives too), plus an external burner!

Originally Posted by AudioTrack
Yes, don't ever consider reassigning drive C for any reason. There's probably stacks of hard-coded programs that automatically presume the drive letter C is where many applications are located.
I'm still surprised that Windows actually allows you to do this.

Last edited by Simon - PG Music; 06/12/24 12:56 PM.
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