USB Drives and Mapped network drives

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Good Day all,
I have having an issue with my win2k server. I have 2 attached USB hard
drives (e & f) used for backup and a network drive (g) used for our billing
app. My usb drives keep picking up a second spot on g. So I am ending up
with:

e: MaxtorUSB
f: Wolverine
g: MaxtorUSB

This means that my mapped drive for my billing program has gone away.
Depending on the start up, some time I get my drives to line up right and
sometimes they don't. Is there a way to hard code these in so this nonsense
stops?
Rich

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Good Day all,
I have having an issue with my win2k server. I have 2 attached USB hard
drives (e & f) used for backup and a network drive (g) used for our billing
app. My usb drives keep picking up a second spot on g. So I am ending up
with:

e: MaxtorUSB
f: Wolverine
g: MaxtorUSB

This means that my mapped drive for my billing program has gone away.
Depending on the start up, some time I get my drives to line up right and
sometimes they don't. Is there a way to hard code these in so this nonsense
stops?
Rich

The reason for your problem is that you assigned a low drive
letter (G for your billing application. A far better strategy
would be to use high drive letters (P:, Q: etc) in order to have
plenty of room for local devices.

You can move the existing USB drive letters by running regedit
and navigating to HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices. Now
rename \DosDevices\E: to DosDevices\M: (for example), etc,
then reboot the machine.

Note that you will strike the same problem again when you
next connect an unknown USB device to the machine.