drive mapping behaviour in XP Pro

[Guest]

Back on Win2000, when connecting an external device such as a USB drive or CD
drive, the drive mapping went to the next available drive. Say you had a C,
D and E drive, if a USB memory stick was connected, it automatically mapped
to F, as next available.

In XP, this does not happen the same way. Every new device maps
automatically on E, which is causing me problems with mapped network drives.

Is there any way to configure XP so that you can get the Win2000 behaviour
back as described above??

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Back on Win2000, when connecting an external device such as a USB
drive or CD drive, the drive mapping went to the next available
drive. Say you had a C, D and E drive, if a USB memory stick was
connected, it automatically mapped to F, as next available.

In XP, this does not happen the same way. Every new device maps
automatically on E, which is causing me problems with mapped network
drives.

Is there any way to configure XP so that you can get the Win2000
behaviour back as described above??

I don't remember how this worked on W2k, but even on XP, the drive letter
assignment to USB/removable media is pretty darn annoying (it doesn't check
to see whether a letter is in use as a network drive, etc.). It does, in my
case, use the next (locally) available letter, so I'm not sure what's going
on with your system.

Regardless, check out http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html for something
quite nice.