USB stick - takes wrong drive letter

[Rutger]

When inserting a USB stick, the corresponding driver and
Windows OS are so smart to assign the next available
drive letter. However, in this process mapped network
drives seem to be overlooked, and the USB stick is not
visible and the autoplay does not start. The workaround
is to go to Disk Management, find the USB stick and
assign another drive letter. The next time I insert the
same model USB stick, it gets the same drive letter that
I selected, so no problem, but every time I insert a
different model USB stick (different driver), it gets the
offending (mapped network drive) drive letter assigned,
and I have to use the Disk Management trick to work
around it. I assume this is a bug in Windows OS or the
drivers, but if I overlook something I can do to fix, let
me know.

Rutger

 

[Pavel]

Actually, I think this is intentional because if you insert the same USB
stick that you originally assigned you will get the expected drive letter
that you selected for it. You will have to assign a drive letter for every
USB stick individually. I have not played that much with it so I do not know
if it looks for the Volume name or some other characteristics to determine
which USB stick you inserted.
As far as mapped drives, I have seen this too and I think Microsoft needs to
address this.