memory stick drive letters

[Guest]

I am using XP on my computer. One of my memory sticks has been assigned
drive letter F. Not sure how it get that way, but now anything else I use is
assigned drive letter G. Is there a way to unassign F from the specific
memory stick?

Thanks

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I am using XP on my computer. One of my memory sticks has been
assigned drive letter F. Not sure how it get that way, but now
anything else I use is assigned drive letter G. Is there a way to
unassign F from the specific memory stick?

A memory stick assigned a drive letter? Perhaps you mean something like a
thumb drive.

At any rate, to change drive letters, go to Start | Programs |
Administrative Tools | Computer Management. Click on Disk Management, then
right click the drive you want to change and change its letter there.

 

[Guest]

Maybe I misspoke. I don't want to change the drive letter. I want to remove
it from associating itself solely with the memory stick. My computer thinks
that my Sony micro vault memory stick is drive F. When another stick or
camera is attached in place of the Sony stick it uses the letter G as the
first available drive letter.

 

[AllenM]

Is this the Sony Vaio memory stick slot? If so you may not remove it. You
may be able to disable it in the CMOS and perhaps it will not show as a
device and no drive letter but that you will need to investigate on your
own. This is a device just like your hard drive and CD drive. It will have a
drive letter assigned to it. My guess is that your system looks like

A drive: floppy drive
C drive: hard drive
D drive: CD ROM or seperate partition or extra hard drive
E: drive: DVD-RW
F drive: memory stick slot

Ant other device plugged in will get the next drive letter assigned to it.
In your case "G".

 

[Guest]

You're scenario sound like it will show as an F drive for all memory sticks?
This is not the case. My other memory stick show as G.

 

[AllenM]

Two different devices. It is not the memory stick that gets assigned a drive
letter. It is where it is being plugged into. If where it is being plugged
into is a permanent onboard device i.e. memory slot then yes it will have a
drive letter assigned to it permanently.

 

[Guest]

The slot is in the front of the computer. When I plug the sony stick in it
reads drive F. If I remove it and plug my digital camera or another memory
stick into the same slot it reads drive G

 

[AllenM]

hmmmmmmmm interesting. When this happens do you still see F: drive available
or is it the same drive just assigning G to the other device.

 

[Guest]

The F drive does not show up in the explorer window unless the memory stick
is connected. I have not tried looking for the F drive elsewhere when the
stick is not connected.

 

[AllenM]

Check here
Start | Programs | Administrative Tools | Computer Management. Click on Disk
Management

 

[Guest]

I can't check that right now. That shows what drives are currently being
used? By checking this am I looking to see if the F drive is still being
used when, say my digital camera is plugged in using drive G?

 

[AllenM]

yes.

I can't check that right now. That shows what drives are currently being
used? By checking this am I looking to see if the F drive is still being
used when, say my digital camera is plugged in using drive G?