How to assign a drive letter in File Explorer to USB conn.Android tel?


  1. clsven
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    How to assign a drive letter in File Explorer to USB conn.Android tel?


    Assume I connected an Android smartphone via USB cable to my Win10 notebook.
    It appears in File Explorer as a new entry and I copy files to/from it.

    Unfortunately the entry in File Explorer has NO drive letter assigned.

    How can I achieve this?
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  3. Matthew Wai
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    I think you cannot assign a drive letter to a multimedia device.

    How to assign a drive letter in File Explorer to USB conn.Android tel?-my-android-phone-seen-multimedia-device.jpg

    The multimedia device, my Android phone, does not show in Disk Management.
    It is not recognized as a USB storage device.
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  4. margrave55
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    My LG phone (not a smart phone) shows up as drive I:

    I have the phone's USB mode set to "mass storage". That's why it shows up as the I: drive.

    It it were set to "modem mode" that would not be the case.
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  6. Matthew Wai
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    I found a similar question on another forum:

    filesystems - How to mount an Android smartphone as a drive in Windows? - Super User
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