How to assign a drive letter to a Windows Portable Device? It tells to use the mtpdrive software, which enables mapping a MTP device to a drive letter. It could have been more explicit though. (And I have not tried it, there is a 'purchase' tab on the software site. I am unwilling to buy a software while I can just manage my phone from my.
So some smartphones are mounted as.. I don't even know how to call it.. a device, see the screenshot below. The problem is this is no drive, so I can't go there in
cmd
(can I?) and do other stuff.(particularly now I'd like to recover some files that were lost when I cut them on the smartphone, navigated to another folder on my PC and pasted there; I encounter this bug for the second time, although failed to make it reproducible; again, Recuva doesn't recognize the device, see the second screenshot)
My question is: can I mount such device as a drive? What is this situation and why some devices are mounted as drives while others are not?
(I've tried also to enable USB-debugging mode on the smartphone, but that didn't help, although when enabled, safe ejection is required)
PS for those interested, currently I use WebDAV server app for some operations like OscarAkaElvis suggested, but for now, it has the following drawbacks:
- drive letter mapping is to be done per WiFi network. That's a Windows problem, not sure if this can be simplified
- namely WebDAV server doesn't work for me in the password-protected mode
- some operations are slow: for instance, calling
tree
in cmd with output to a file for several tens of folders and 1.5K files tree took ~10 minutes
YakovL
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Historically Android phones did support two major protocols when presenting itself to USB host: (1) Mass storage class (MSC), and (2) MTP/PTP device (media transfer protocol, with camera capabilities). The USB mode was user-switchable in some configuration area. Since the Mass Storage provides almost direct access to phone file directories (as from CMD), there were many cases of phone bricking (corruption). As result, newer phones do not offer the MSC configuration mode, only MTP/PTP. So the answer to your question is 'you can't', unless your particular Android phone does have the MSC/MTP switch.
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If you want to have a drive with letter you should install some software. Look at this
Anyway, to perform single copies of files in windows I guess you know hoy. Anyway I'll put here how:
After plugin it, usually it needs another interaction more to be done in phone's side. You can drop down the push events and select there to mount your phone as a drive (MTP/PTP), you can select also only to charge power on phone.
It depends of your android version. Here are a couple of images of what I'm talking about:
OscarAkaElvisOscarAkaElvis
Install a webdav server on your 'phone. The webdav server delivers the data in a given storage partition on your phone to a specific TCP/IP address. On your Windows PC you can then open this IP Address and link a drive letter to it.
OP: https://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s3/210019-how-can-i-get-drive-letter-windows.html#post2172515
It should be noted that file system options will be limited because any supported file system options must be supported by all the interacting systems.
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