How to treat removable storage as... removable storage? (1 Viewer)

[NLS]

My HTPC hard disk is rather small (120GB), it does have some videos and MP3, but my main bulk of video and audio is in two external disks (USB2 and firewire whatever I want).

I wonder, if there is possibility to do one of the following:

1) Plug the disk (with MP already started), of course the disks gets the same letter all the time (so these letters are "static" when the disks are available), and be able to USE the media in that disk immediately.

2) Plug the disk on another PC in my network, share the disk (use same name always) and again be able to use the media on the disk immediately. Remember that the disk is removable (so it won't always be online), so I cannot map it to a drive letter on HTPC. Again I shouldn't need to leave MP for any reason.

In simpler words on my working MP HTPC (for the WAF to remain high) plug the disk, either on that PC or on the network, and then play videos or MP3 from there.

...best case senario is to be able to do both...
So can any of these cases work? (and how)

 

[Callifo]

1) Plug the disk (with MP already started), of course the disks gets the same letter all the time (so these letters are "static" when the disks are available), and be able to USE the media in that disk immediately.

Works fine for me

2) Plug the disk on another PC in my network, share the disk (use same name always) and again be able to use the media on the disk immediately. Remember that the disk is removable (so it won't always be online), so I cannot map it to a drive letter on HTPC. Again I shouldn't need to leave MP for any reason.

While you cant have both a local and a remote drive as the samething, I cant see why it wouldnt work as 2 seperate entries. For 2) though dont map it as a drive, just use a share, that way if its not plugged in it will just appear as an empty share rather than being non-existant.

 

[NLS]

great thanks!