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Assigning a new drive letter to the removable drive should set that drive letter permanently in Windows memory for the next time you attach it. (Windows 2000 and up.)
For Noobies, Right click on My Computer, select Manage. In the window that comes up scroll down to Disk Management. Right click the USB drive you want to change and choose Change Drive Letter. Change it and click YES to the warning that comes up. Your done. It will remember you next time. (You may have to remove and reinsert the drive to see the files in Windows.)
I also found this little free program which will assign static drives letters to usb drives among other things. Lookup USBDLM V4.4.1 - USB Drive Letter Manager for Windows. (No link for fear of this post being deleted.)
3 stars for neutral because I haven't tried syncBack yet.
by: Melaney | 3 | 2009-11-16 | | | | "You lost me Antonio!"
Well Antonio,I must admit I don't have a clue what you're talking about with drive serial numbers etc., All I know is that myself & hundreds of thousands of others have been using SyncBack freeware for years to successfully back up to partitions & all external targets i.e. DVD,flash drives & ext HDD's with no problem. Maybe you should ask the developers at 2BrightSparks why you can't seem to get it to work,I'm sure they'd be interested in your comments,then again,as I said previously,I don't know what backup software will work for you!
by: deebee | 5 | 2009-05-31 | | | | "Great program!!"
I think this app is great. It does exactly was I hoping it would do, with ease and simplicity. Many thanks to the developers!
by: MooshWan | 5 | 2009-01-16 | | | | "Should use serial #, not drive letter"
deebee, I think your reasoning is flawed. Drive letters are flawed for backup/restore use. The app should use drive serial #s in combo with volume names if need be, not drive letters.
by: justme | 4 | 2008-11-11 | | | | "Antonio's review"
I have used Syncback for years to backup to external hard drives & seperate partitions & never had any problems. If you set up a profile for your external drive,hdd or any other drive for that matter,then disconnect it & reconnect after you've plugged in a flash drive for example,then most likely the drive letter for the external hdd will have changed the next time you connect it,therefore the profile won't work anymore,it's not "corrupted". By the way,this applies to ANY backup program,not just Syncback. It's up to you Antonio to make sure you allocate the proper drive letter to your devices. You have marked Syncback as only meriting a "1" when it's your own fault that it's not working. Look at the path you set up in the profile,then check what drive letter is being allocated to the external hdd. Try Karens Replicator,also very good & I bet you get the same problem. You MUST allocate drive letters to specific drives & keep them that way,else no backup program can work,can it?
by: deebee | 5 | 2008-10-14 | | | | "Backup Profiles autoCorrupt!"
Several Profiles were created, Backing up Files from computer to external HD. Tedious to do properly, to be sure. Well...the Backup WAS done, but...subsequently, after disconnecting the External HD (I think that's what caused the error) none of the Profile's Groups worked!! WTF??
Something about the way Syncback "stores" it's Profile, and the subsequent Folder Paths, that "corrupts" AFTER the initial Backup.
It might look OK, but...try as I, with a separate HD, and see if I'm wrong. Uninstalled :-(
by: Antonio | 1 | 2008-10-06 | | | | "New version"
Still the best free backup program IMHO. The latest version is 3.2.19
by: Deebee | 5 | 2008-09-24 | | | | "The Best"
I tried and compared many freeware backup programs. SyncBack is the best I could find. It has many useful options and features. Good for experienced to advanced users.
by: - | 5 | 2008-04-23 | | | | "3.2.18"
Latest version is 3.2.18. Still the best backup program I've ever used!
by: deebee | 5 | 2008-04-03 | | | | "Minor glitch, otherwise... it delivers!"
Very nice tool, easy to configure once you get the hang of it. Only issue I found is that it's not properly retrying the operation with locked files - it's not giving me the chance to close the application that is using the file, resulting in an error.
by: Wagner | 4 | 2007-09-17 | | | | "Report missing"
I have changed from version 3.2.9.0english to 3.2.14.0de. Now I miss the reports. Even if reports are requested in the preferences, none are availible.
by: Lobito | 3 | 2007-08-26 | | | | "problem with non-English filenames"
First, I wish viewers to disregard comments that are before 2007 because those are comments about old versions of SyncBack.
Second, I wish to report some bugs in SyncBack 3.2.14:
1. Trouble may occur (but not always) if your folder name or filename is not English. When copied, the destination file could get a mutilated filename.
2. If you choose an FTP server as destination, the problem stated in 1. above occurs more often. It is not safe using FTP as destination. Using drive letters has less trouble.
by: Henda | 2 | 2007-05-30 | | | | "SyncBack Freeware"
I've been using the program for a few weeks now without any problems. Use it for a home PC and a external backup HD. Works great so far. Many thanks to the developers for a simple inexpensive way to backup important info.
Allen
by: acable0351 | 4 | 2007-01-09 | | | | "The best backup program"
I use SyncBack free version every day,have done for years,it's a great program. Some of the options might be confusing if you don't know what you're doing,but I think it's great.
by: deebee | 5 | 2006-12-09 | | | | "Superb"
This is the best backup program around. Dump the rest, this is the best.
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