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Accessing a USB device without using the drive letter in Windows

Is it possible to access a USB drive or Flash card without using the drive letter that Windows assigns it? I thought I read somewhere that the Volume GUID or something can be used but will that allow me to open it up in explorer once I identify it? The reason this is important to me is because there may not be enough drive letters to handle the number of drives so I want to be able to still access them.

Solution

  • Use MOUNTVOL by itself to get the drive ID. enter image description here

    Here you go:

    MOUNTVOL C:\USB: \\?\Volume{ebc79032-5270-11d8-a724-806d6172696f}\ 

OR Winkey+R (Start-Run)  \\?\Volume{ebc79032-5270-11d8-a724-806d6172696f}\