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http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/auto_assign_drive_letters.html

This utility functions correctly if a USB memory stick is inserted, but it does not work if a bare SATA hard drive is connected through a USB adapter.  Multiple adapters from different vendors were tested with the same result.

Notes:

  • In all cases the adapter driver was automatically installed by Microsoft update servers
  • The hard drive appears in Device Manager / Disk Drives
  • The volume appears in Computer Management / Storage
  • The volume is accessible through Windows Explorer if a drive letter is manually assigned in Computer Management.

I understand that this program is only supposed to enable a feature of Windows, not provide additional functionality.  I just want to know if Windows is technically capable of auto-mounting volumes on hard drives which are connected through a USB adapter... and if so, what is the command to enable this feature.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Reparse point repair silently fails
« on: April 16, 2015, 08:07:36 am »
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That isnt offered here, you click on an advertisment, that isnt my program :wink:

It was a typo, I should have wrote "there" instead of "here."  I just wanted to point out that a scam repair utility is calling your product a virus, and these scammers are offering fake solutions to real Windows errors by gaming the search engines.

To update this issue (from the thread that was locked prematurely), I have downloaded 3.1.3 and it repaired all of the reparse points except for one item:

Create Default Reparse Point (JUNCTION)

Original Path:
 C:\ProgramData\Application Data

Target Path:
 C:\ProgramData


The cause of this failure may be a permissions error:

There were strange permissions on ProgramData & 'Application Data' (such as "deny all" and various "special" permissions in addition to the normal permissions for each account type).  Also, the SYSTEM account could not be given full control of this folder (operation fails without error message.)  I was able to manually fix permissions enough to gain access to 'Application Data' through Windows Explorer.  But when I ran the Reparse Point repair, the unwanted permissions (such as "deny all") were restored (meaning the folder could not be accessed through explorer again).  Running a permissions repair on the drive did not help.

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