USB memory drive mapping problem

[Anonymous]

Hi all!



I have a problem with external USB drives. They maps to the next drive
letter after the fixed disks (cd-rom HDD etc.). Problem is that those drive
letters aren't available (they are used by network drives). So it maps to an
existing drive letter, thus rendering the USB drive or the network drive
inaccessible.



I can change the drive letter for the USB drive in the disk management. I'm
just curious if there is a way to "reserve" drive letters so I don't have to
run around and change drive letters every time someone pops in a USB drive.
Or if there's some other solution?

 

[Richard Urban]

The first time I connected my USB2 hard drive I changed the drive letter to
"X". Now every time I turn on my external drive it is re-established as
drive "X".

Works for me!

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Anonymous]

Hi!



Yes it works for me too. But I have close too 100 computer to administrate,
and the users aren't administrators so I have to change the drive letter the
first time someone uses a USB drive. So I was wondering if there was some
other way to do this? Maybe with group policies or something like that.

 

[Thomas Wendell]

Maybe with gp, but you'll get another problem when there comes along an USB
stick that hasn't been in the machine before.
XP enumerates these sticks by make and model, so a new stick again takes the
"network" letter...


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[Anonymous]

Yes, that probably isn't the best way. But is there a way to tell XP that it
should start with letter R: or something. Or maybe start with the first free
drive letter (B that should work too. This was certainly a hard case to
crack.