usb wrong drive letter

[Irwin]

I don't know if this is windows or if it is me.

I have Windows XP up and running, and I plug in a USB2 flash drive. It
does not appear in explorer. I go to manage computer and find that it
assigned it the same drive letter as a network drive. That is pretty
stupid, even for windows. So you manually change the drive letter, and
all is well.

Anyone know how to make it stop doing that?

Thanks,
Irwin

 

[CWatters]

I don't know if this is windows or if it is me.

I have Windows XP up and running, and I plug in a USB2 flash drive. It
does not appear in explorer. I go to manage computer and find that it
assigned it the same drive letter as a network drive. That is pretty
stupid, even for windows. So you manually change the drive letter, and
all is well.

Anyone know how to make it stop doing that?

You didn't mention what letters you are using?

Someone else reported a similar problem recently. I think that person had
set up their mapped network drives to appear just after their local drives
eg somewhere around E: F: or G: Then when they plugged in a USB drive there
was a clash (Yes I know it shouldn't really matter!).

Try setting the mapped network drives to Z: Y: X: etc which is the default
Windows seems to use. I think that fixed it for the other person.

 

[Oldguy]

You didn't mention what letters you are using?

Someone else reported a similar problem recently. I think that person had
set up their mapped network drives to appear just after their local drives
eg somewhere around E: F: or G: Then when they plugged in a USB drive
there
was a clash (Yes I know it shouldn't really matter!).

Try setting the mapped network drives to Z: Y: X: etc which is the default
Windows seems to use. I think that fixed it for the other person.

Go into Disk Management and assign it any unused drive letter.
I would make it something like U for usb and it will come up that way until
you change the letter manually or reformat the drive.

I have an external USB removable drive housing and three different drives I
use in the tray.
Each comes up with assigned drive letter when inserted and powered up.

 

[Jim B]

I have a similar problem with removable SanDisk drive (assigned G). If I boot
the computer with the SanDisk card inserted in the drive, it creates a "ghost" G
drive inside D partition and corrupt the SanDisk. If I reboot the computer
without the SanDisk card, everything returned to normal.

The problem arose after I replace my computer's motherboard and I was told it
could be the motherboard bio problem. BTW my OS is Win98SE.

Go into Disk Management and assign it any unused drive letter.
I would make it something like U for usb and it will come up that way until
you change the letter manually or reformat the drive.

Where and how to get into Disk Management...

 

[CWatters]

I have a similar problem with removable SanDisk drive (assigned G). If I boot
the computer with the SanDisk card inserted in the drive, it creates a "ghost" G
drive inside D partition and corrupt the SanDisk. If I reboot the computer
without the SanDisk card, everything returned to normal.

I think I read somewhere that there are new drivers for SanDisk products for
use with WinXP SP2. Might be worth a try.