Need to copy between disks with variable drive letters

Chumbo,

Your problem has nothing to do with soft / hard symbolic links.
Soft / hard symbolic links cannot help you in this situation.
If the drive letter changes then no form of Windows shortcut can help you.

If you have control of the disks concerned and can allocate them unique labels then you could write a batch file to detect their drive letter each time then adjust the rest of the batch file to do whatever it is you need to do.
I can provide a sample batch file for this.

Alternatively, you can set the drive letter to a fixed one for the disk on every computer you use. You might find this simpler.

Let me know your decision and I can help you do the job.

@Brink - I think posts #66 & #67 would be better moved to a thread of their own. I think a suitable title would be something like Need to copy between disks with variable drive letters.


Denis

Yes, use Disk management.
- To avoid 'stealing', choose a drive letter that is higher up the alphabet than the number of disks that might be connected to the computer. I, just for example, always assign something greater than H:\.
Change and Assign Drive Letter - TenForumsTutorials


Best of luck,
Denis

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chumbo,

Posts #8 & #36 of the thread that Ricardo has linked to are what I would have suggested if you had been interested in a batch file solution to find drive letters each time.

Try3 said:

If you have control of the disks concerned and can allocate them unique labels then you could write a batch file to detect their drive letter each time then adjust the rest of the batch file to do whatever it is you need to do.
I can provide a sample batch file for this.

Since you have chosen to set fixed drive letters, other methods are not particularly relevant. I've chosen to find drive letters each time and I think it's a superior solution but it's your decision.

All the best,
Denis

Bear in mind it only one drive can be assigned per drive letter, and that's the most recent so assigned.