USB flash drive, drive letter not being assigned automatically

[Walt Haisler]

Have a Dimension 8300 with WinXP Pro. When I plug in a new
USB flash drive (the pocket variety) that has never been
plugged into this machine, I cannot see the flash drive via
My Computer. If I go to Disk Management, I can see the new
flash drive but with no drive letter assigned. So I assign a
drive letter to the new flash drive and then I can see it in
My Computer. So I now have two flash drives (say #1 and #2),
and #1 is assigned letter M and #2 is assigned letter O.

To add a bit more information, I have a mapped network drive
on H. The first time I plugged in flash drive unit #1, it
was actually assigned to drive H, but subsequently in My
Computer drive H: still pointed to the mapped network drive
(assume this was a conflict of some sort). That is when I
had to assign the flash drive with a different drive letter.

Questions:
1. Why is the drive letter not assigned automatically?
2. Why do I have to assign separate drive letters for each
different flash drive?
3. How can I fix this problem?

Walt

 

[Guest]

Thats normal using a thumb drive on a network. Like someone said change the drive letter on the mapped drive.

 

[wojo]

Cool, I got one right
lol

 

[Walt Haisler]

OK, I'll try this on my pc at work tomorrow.

ps: sorry to have multiple posts. I received an error
message that indicated that the post did not go through.
Obviously that was not correct. My apologies.

Walt

 

[wojo]

It happens.
I just did the same thing earlier today.

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