I have had this issue with several Windows XP workstations.

Whenever I plug in a external storage device like a thumb drive, it assigns
a drive letter that is already in use by a mapped drive. I can go in and
manual change it but the next time I plug it in, it does it again.

Any ideas why this happens? How can I fix this?

Thanks,
Jasper

It happens because someone mapped a network drive immediately following
the currently used local drives. If they leave them open and place the
network drive at the end of the alphabet starting at Z like Windows
places them then the local drive letters will be open.

Jasper Recto wrote:

> I have had this issue with several Windows XP workstations.
>
> Whenever I plug in a external storage device like a thumb drive, it assigns
> a drive letter that is already in use by a mapped drive. I can go in and
> manual change it but the next time I plug it in, it does it again.
>
> Any ideas why this happens? How can I fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jasper
>
>

On Jun 2, 8:00 pm, Bob I <bire...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It happens because someone mapped a network drive immediately following
> the currently used local drives. If they leave them open and place the
> network drive at the end of the alphabet starting at Z like Windows
> places them then the local drive letters will be open.
>
> Jasper Recto wrote:
> > I have had this issue with several Windows XP workstations.
>
> > Whenever I plug in a external storage device like a thumb drive, it assigns
> > a drive letter that is already in use by a mapped drive. I can go in and
> > manual change it but the next time I plug it in, it does it again.
>
> > Any ideas why this happens? How can I fix this?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Jasper

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