COS Drive Letter

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Is there any way to change the drive letter for COS? Allowing me to do so will avoid conflicts with network drives that happen to be offline when starting COS. I am using COS v2.0.5.7.

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Hi,

You can change the DrvLetter value in “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComodoGroup\Common\COS\MntDrv”. This way you can choose any letter you like.

Thanks

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Hello Emmanuel

Thanks for your suggestion. Regrettably, having tried it, I have discovered that:

  • the MntDrv key and SrvLetter value are transient and only have esistence and meaning whilst COSClient is active;
  • changing the DrvLetyter value makes no difference to the actual drive letter COS takes, nor does it change the assigned drive in My Computer.
    [li]manually creating the key and associated value makes no diifference because when COSClient is loaded, it finds the first available drive letter and proceeds to overwrite the manually created value.restarts
    .

Do you have any other suggestions?

I am runing under XP/SP3 32 bit. Please let me know if I have misunderstood anything or if there is anything else I need to do.

Thanks.

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At this point, there isn’t other way to change drive letter for COS drive.
We will add an option for this in the next version.

Thanks

5

Many thanks for being so helpful.

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Here’s a hack that MAY do what you want. Try running a cmd script at startup with a bunch of Subst commands (subst E: C:, subst F: C:, etc.), you can effectively block off the drive letters you don’t want COS to grab . Then, after COS grabs the next available letter, do a bunch of “subst /d” commands to free them up again.

I know it’s not pretty, but it IS a way to control what letter COS gets - until we get that new version…