Total Commander

hi christian g and helpers.
i got 17 partitions on 5 harddiscs on my pc and very often i wished it would be able to see at first glance which partition is asigned to the respective hd.
for example c:, d:, e:, :f belong to the first hd and these buttons might be red. g:, h:, i: to another hd and could be painted in another color.

or a number on the buttons that shows which hd the partition is located on.

hopefully to achieve this wouldn't be much of an effort.....

ceeboks

2ceeboks

Hello !

• Prior, nothing against your idea, but if you mean the drive-buttons on the drive-buttons bar,
I doubt that the Author adds such a feature…

• A poor workaround should be to install buttons to change the drives in the windows, but in the upper button-bar.
- To do so, you may use the commands cm_GotoDrive… (…= from A to Z).
- Then, you can assign appropriate icons, having the wished colours according to your hard-disks.
- I could draw these icons if you wish (for free), just specify the layout of all your partitions with regard to the hard-disks,
which colours you want for, and the icon size.
- However, it seems difficult to get meaningful patterns smaller than 24²…
- Please, send these indications via e-mail if you are interested in such a solution (I did already for a user…).

…or a number on the buttons that shows which hd the partition is located on.

• You can't add this on the button itself, but it's possible to get customized info-texts using the WINCMD.INI entry :

[DriveHints]
E=HD-2

for instance…
- Add that section if it's missing, and one line in that painting for each partition…

 Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

hi clo
thanks for your swift response.
haven't got the time to checkout your suggestions this weekend.
coming week i'll try it out....

cheers
ceeboks

hello clo
tried your [DriveHints]-tipp.....perfect.
would be greater to have different colored drive-buttons, but it's very much ok this way.
much easier than to open the devicemanager.

thanks a lot
ceeboks