Removeable drives use same letter as network drive

[Dave]

When you use a removeable USB drive, be it a "memory
stick", card reader etc, Windows often assigns it a drive
letter that is already in use by a network drive. e.g. it
will use f: and be invisible, because f: is mapped to
network share.

To use the drive, one has to change the drive letter via
Disk Management in Computer Management.

Is there any workaround to make Windows use a little sense
and use a free drive letter?

 

[Guest]

Sorry - your only way forward is to remap the network
drives to a higher letter.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

You can map your network drive to drive Z.

Peter

 

[Nathan McNulty]

I would highly recommend this method. To do this, right click on My
Computer, click Map Network Drive, then configure it from there

 

[Dave]

Whilst I can do this on my home network, this is also a
problem people have at work. There is no way on Earth the
network admins are going to remap the company's long-
established network drives F and G to Y and Z!