MTPdrive

MTPdrive is intended to map devices to a drive letter. It works with all devices that operate in MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) mode, mostly those running on Android as well as cameras and Apple portable devices.

The use of PTP has some advantages, for instance, it allows accessing movies stored in Apple devices as well as reconstructing the original file structure without waiting for all the information about the files to be collected.

The tool is quite easy to use. In this regard, it works if you just pick one of the connected devices (which should appear in a dropdown list), assign the desired drive letter to it and press the Map button. Luckily, there is no chance that you assign your device to a used drive letter, as they will not be shown in the corresponding list. From then on, there is a new drive letter on your system, which you can access from any program that permits so. Similarly, you can terminate mapping from File Manager’s contextual menu, without even needing to open the tool.

It is good that you can save some time and effort by creating profiles. Thus, you can set the tool to map a specific device automatically, including a set of preferred drive letters. Likewise, you can configure the system structure to be kept as original, or create a new virtual structure instead.

The tool works fine most of the time. However, there are a series of known issues, some of them resulting from limitations of the protocol used. For instance, it does not allow in-place file editing. Likewise, since it cannot access the device’s raw file system directly, data recovery programs that need to the access the sector directly cannot do their job properly.

All in all, MTPdrive makes accessing and transferring the data you store on devices that support MTP much easier. The product is not free; however, you can download its trial version, which has limitations in terms of the number of devices you can map and the quantity of files you can transfer.