Same File Path to multiple USB drives.

Question

I have a piece of software that writes CNC programs for a machine in our factory.  It saves these programs to a single location that can be set up within the software.  It is currently set up to save to a network drive.

We want to save these programs to USB drives that would then be plugged in the machine and downloaded.  I currently have three identical USB drives (if it works I'll get more).  Is there a way to set these up so that they have the same file path?

I have tried assigning a new letter to these which works individually however it seems Windows 10 will only reserve a given letter to one drive.  As soon as you assign that same letter to a new drive it is no longer assigned to the first drive.

Answer 1

You probably need a scripting solution. It could work like so:

• You reserve drive Z: for your CNC stuff.
• After plugging in a flash disk, you double-click an icon that invokes the script.
• The script would scan all drives until it finds the CNC disk.
• It would then use the subst command to trick Windows into believing that drive Z: is the correct drive letter.