Drive Letters After Windows Reinstall

[David Patt 21]

So because newest win 11 update corrupt my windows install i reinstall it. But my external HDD letters are scrambled around. Is there a way to find out which library point to which drive without running server ? Dont want mess it up.

[RanmaCanada 496]

Unplug your drives from your PC, run Emby server and check to see what directories your libraries are in. Take note of it, plug your drives in and see what library is on what drive and assign drive letters accordingly. You could also probably just look at the logs if you don't want to spin it up.

[GrimReaper 4740]

If installed to default Windows path:

C:\Users\{yourusername]\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\root\default

will list all your libraries with each respective options.xml listing library path/drive.  

[Lessaj 467]

You can open the library.db with a DB browser and look at some of the items in the MediaItems table to see their path and figure it out from there. This query might work.

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Select * from MediaItems where type=3

 

Edited May 23, 2024 by Lessaj

[David Patt 21]

Thanky you for inputs and fast responses a set it up now and it eork correctly.

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

Although I run Windows 10 (my computer is not good enough for 11) I believe that Windows disk manager even under 11 allows reassignment of drive letters. I had a need shortly after Win 10 was released to reassign a drive to another letter and I think I used disk manager to do that. I do remember that my first attempt errored out because the letter i needed to use was already in use. I temporarily assigned the drive to a dummy letter and then reassigned the drive that I needed to free up to another letter and then reassigned the needed letter to the correct drive. That is at that time disk manager did not give any error message or offer alternatives if there was a conflict it just failed. But once I assured that I was not duplicating assignments everything worked fine and I ended up with a properly operating computer with the drives mapped correctly. 

I do not know if this helps you but it is a way to fix drive mapping issues.

I should note that a quick search turned up disk manager as discontinued software but Win 11 should have a utility to do the same thing. 

I hope this at least gives ideas that may result in a fix.  

[RanmaCanada 496]

4 hours ago, David Patt said:

Thanky you for inputs and fast responses a set it up now and it eork correctly.

Awesome. Glad to read things are aok!