USB mapped drive problem

[Clayton Sutton]

Hey everyone,

I am running Windows XP Pro. and have a number of drives mapped. My last
drive is G:. Now I need to install another USB device. The problem is that
it wont map to drive D:. It seems to want to use G:. If I dismount the G:
drive and THEN plug in the new USB device (Hard Drive) it will take drive G:
and everything works fine. Anyone know why it wont take drive H:? Thnaks
for any input.


Clayton

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am running Windows XP Pro. and have a number of drives mapped. My
last drive is G:. Now I need to install another USB device. The
problem is that it wont map to drive D:. It seems to want to use G:.
If I dismount the G: drive and THEN plug in the new USB device (Hard
Drive) it will take drive G: and everything works fine. Anyone know
why it wont take drive H:? Thnaks for any input.

Badly written code.
At least that is my determination so far.
I have had thumb drives refuse to be anything but E.. Had to give them E
and reassign in Disk Manager to something else before they would stop doing
that. And then it seemed to be a per-user thing.

Try reassigning your G temporarily to something else.. Let the drive grab G,
use Disk manager to give it another drive letter, disconnect it, reconnect
to your normal G, plug it back in.. Did that work?

 

[Clayton Sutton]

Thanks Shenan,

I'll give that a try and report back.


Clayton

 

[Clayton Sutton]

Hey Shenan,

That worked! It even worked AFTER a reboot. Thanks for your help.


Clayton

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am running Windows XP Pro. and have a number of drives mapped. My
last drive is G:. Now I need to install another USB device. The
problem is that it wont map to drive D:. It seems to want to use
G:. If I dismount the G: drive and THEN plug in the new USB device
(Hard Drive) it will take drive G: and everything works fine. Anyone know
why it wont take drive H:? Thnaks for any input.

Badly written code.
At least that is my determination so far.
I have had thumb drives refuse to be anything but E.. Had to give
them E and reassign in Disk Manager to something else before they
would stop doing that. And then it seemed to be a per-user thing.

Try reassigning your G temporarily to something else.. Let the drive
grab G, use Disk manager to give it another drive letter, disconnect
it, reconnect to your normal G, plug it back in.. Did that work?

Hey Shenan,

That worked! It even worked AFTER a reboot. Thanks for your help.

Glad to hear it!

 

[Tim Slattery]

Hey everyone,

I am running Windows XP Pro. and have a number of drives mapped. My last
drive is G:. Now I need to install another USB device. The problem is that
it wont map to drive D:. It seems to want to use G:. If I dismount the G:
drive and THEN plug in the new USB device (Hard Drive) it will take drive G:
and everything works fine. Anyone know why it wont take drive H:? Thnaks
for any input.

Seems to be a WinXP bug. In my experience, the USB drive always takes
the letter right after your last hard drive partition, regardless of
whether something else (like a network drive) already has it. I've
taken to not using that letter for network mappings, leaving it
available for USB drives.

 

[Bob I]

For auto mapping, Local drives map from A-Z, Network drives map from
Z-A. If you map drives yourself then you have to sort it yourself.

 

[Bob I]

Not a bug, it's been standard NT mapping for a long time. Local go A-Z,
network goes Z-A.

 

[Steve N.]

Not a bug, it's been standard NT mapping for a long time. Local go A-Z,
network goes Z-A.

It's only a "bug" if you use some other and older networking standard,
such as Novell, which has always mapped F-Z, but then Windows networking
and Novell networking have always been at odds in some way or other.

Steve

 

[roman modic]

Try reassigning your G temporarily to something else.. Let the drive
BTW, if you will attach different USB Mass Storage device, it will assign
G to the new device. Long-term solution would be to permanently change
the letter(s) of your CD/DVDs (which are somewhere between D and G
I assume) to P,Q,R,S and so on, for example.

Roman

 

[Tim Slattery]

Not a bug, it's been standard NT mapping for a long time. Local go A-Z,
network goes Z-A.

It's not a bug if a newly arrived device takes a letter that's already
in use? Sure looks like a bug to me!