Search to Drive Letter

In Windows 7 you could press the Windows 7, type a network drive in the search box (like V:\), press Enter and it would open a new explorer window with the V:\ drive open. I cant seem to get that functionality to work here in Windows 10.
Any ideas?

Hi Jeradw,
David Lowndes provides a good workaround, but you’d better submit a feature request via our feedback app to us:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/preview-how-to#how-to=tab7
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If you have pictures (on your iPod) in the Camera Roll, that may be why the iPod is showing up as a camera. The Camera Roll is where pictures taken on the iPod, screenshots taken on the iPod and pictures saved from Safari are stored.
Copy the pictures from the Camera Roll and put them onto yuor computer. Once you have done that, you can delete the pictures from the Camera Roll and perhaps the iPod will stop showing up as a camera.
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Windows 8 does not remember secondary SATA hard drive letter

So, I bought an HP Pavilion with a 1TB HDD with Windows 8 installed. I burned the recovery disks, wiped the 1TB (Seagate) drive and installed a 250GB (WD) drive. I installed the WD as the primary boot and OS, and formatted the Seagate as a basic drive for
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Hi alcisco70,
The drive letter miss after restarting the computer, right?
I would like to suggest you update its driver firstly, and then do the following:
open a command prompt with administrator privileges, then type:
Diskpart
List disk (you will get detail disk info, if you only have one disk, it will show disk 0)
Select disk 0
List volume (you will get detail volume info)
Select volume # (change # to corresponding number)
then enter:
attributes volume clear hidden
After that, restart the computer and reassign the drive letter to that volume. And navigate to the path below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search\VolumeInfoCache
Which lists all the current drive info. check if there is any conflict.
Karen Hu
TechNet Community Support

Windows 2012 answer file and DVD drive letter

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<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
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xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
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in 2012, I change DVD drive letter from D to Z and then I sysprep it. in target VM when I load my image, DVD drive is D again.
I guess when sysprep generalize everything, DVD drive get detected again and windows assign first available letter to it. my second question is : is there any way to make drive letter setting stays the same in target computer?
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Hi,
Where did you put the answer file? Windows has several places to check the files, you can refer to the following article, notice Implicit Answer File Search Order.
Windows Setup Automation Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/hh824950.aspx
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Assign, change, or remove a drive letter
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/cc757491(v=ws.10).aspx#BKMK_CMD
Include a Custom Script in a Windows PE Image
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766521(v=ws.10).aspx
Hope this helps.

External Disk Not Readable by OSX after Setting Drive Letter in Windows 7

My external hard drive, which was previously formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), contains all of my purchased music. I have this external drive connected directly to my iMac via USB. My iTunes in OS X points to this drive.
After installing Boot Camp, I was able to read this external hard drive in Windows 7, but I changed the drive letter used in Windows 7 from E: to G:. Bad idea, apparently...
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I'm trying to simply copy my catalog and photos from my desktop to my laptop to have with me when I'm away. From all the discussions it seemed like backup/restore was the best method in order to preserve all the tags and other data associated with the images.
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I could have easily copied the files myself, but I was counting on restore to do what I could not easily do - which was to update the database to reflect the correct location of the restored files. After all, restore PUT them there. Something must have convinced it that the drive letter containing the restored photos was still H:, but I'm at a loss as to how it could have come to that conclusion.
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Finding missing photos when drive letter has changed

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Auto change drive letter and format

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New PC and diff. Drive letter for iTunes (Steps to take, please comment)

I have bought a new PC, and I want to transfer my library to my new pc but the problem is that the Driveletter will be different
(On my Old PC, Music is located on then E: Drive and on New Computer the music will be located on the D Drive)
Now I have the following Idea and I would like to know what the experts here think of it.
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-> You can rename the media folder to *iTunes Media* (if it isn't already) if the media folder is inside the library folder.
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*Fast backup for iTunes library (Windows Only)*
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pushd \\windows2008server\share\
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mklink /d test_dirunc \\windows2008server\share
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Hello Mandy,
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I assume that the Windows Server CIFS server service must be "smart enough" to determine that a CIFS client is attempting access to a SYMLINKD and actually fill the request by following the SYMLINKD. The CIFS server service does not appear
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1) Am I correct in my assumption that the CIFS client (redirector) and the CIFS server (server) do not following symbolic links (whether they be file or directory)?
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Matt Brown
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Note that you can use a `directory junction` instead of using a SYMLINKD, to link to LOCAL resources (source). However, `directory junctions` do not allow access to resources over UNC.

Wrong Drive Letter Assignment

This issue caused about 8 hours of grief with trying to get the new iPod to work.
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