Drive letter assignment to an USB flashdisk

[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

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

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

 

[Guest]

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