Drive letter assignment to an USB flashdisk

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Fredrik

Hi,

Every time I connect an USB flashdisk to my WinXP Pro
system it's assigned the driveletter "G". I can change the
drive letter in disk manager and it works fine after that
as long as I use the same flashdisk. But as soon as
connect a new brand of USB flashdisk it's given the drive
letter "G" again. Is this some sort of a "hidden standard"
or is there a way to configure the OS to assign a
different letter by default?

Best regards,

Fredrik
 
It should be assigned the next letter in line.... and will probably see each
as a Removable Drive. If there is no hard coding in the flashdisk, it
cannot differentiate one from another, so each is going to be given the same
assigned letter.

Cari
www.coribright.com
 
Thanks for the reply!

Unfortunatly it doesn't seem to assign the next letter in
line... On all of our production computers we use the
volume "G" as a mapped network drive. This can not be
changed since it would mean a great impact on our business
system. So in our logon script we map the drive letter G
to a network share and every time I plug in a new usb
flashdisk it is assigned the letter G and thus it will not
show up in windows explorer until I manually change it to
a letter that's free. It doesn't seem to take in
consideration that there already is a mapped network drive
with the letter G.

Any ideas?

Regards
Fredrik
 
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