Mounting USB drives on desktop?
I was just wondering if there is anyway of mounting an external hard disk or pen drive on the desktop in windows xp. Much like on linux or OSX. If you know a way then that would be brilliant. If not, i guess it can’t be done.
No, you can’t. The Windows UI is designed such that details of all your drives (be they hard drive, optical drive, external drive, tape drive, etc) are kept within My Computer so you couldn’t get the icons to appear automatically on the desktop.
You could make shortcuts to certain drives on the desktop of course, but that might not work if the drives in question aren’t connected permanently as the drive letters may swap around when you plug and unplug different devices.
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