USB drive uses new drive letter and does not release old

[scramblur]

I have a usb key which I use temporarily a few times a week. I assign
it a drive letter above my existing drives to avoid any conflicts (T.
The problem I have been having lately, is when I eject the drive, even
though windows does not report it in use anymore, when I plug it back
in, it gets a new drive letter (U, and the old drive letter
re-appears (T. If I try and open T: it says:

"T:\ refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be a hard
drive on this computer, or on a network....."

When I eject the drive again, and re-insert it, now T: and U: report in
use and it assigns a letter V:

If I reboot all is good and I start over again.

Something is not being cleared out in the registry... any ideas?

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I have a usb key which I use temporarily a few times a week. I assign
it a drive letter above my existing drives to avoid any conflicts (T.
The problem I have been having lately, is when I eject the drive, even
though windows does not report it in use anymore, when I plug it back
in, it gets a new drive letter (U, and the old drive letter
re-appears (T.

That sounds like the 'increasing letters' effect
caused by ZoneAlarm.

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...p.hardware/browse_frm/thread/7f955e9bc27fa903



Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[Uwe Sieber]

That sounds like the 'increasing letters' effect
caused by ZoneAlarm.

Opps, that's wrong. Lost track of all the USB drive
letter problems...

There are reports that the 'increasing letters' effect is
caused by a software called 'Spyware Doctor'.


Uwe