USB Thumb Drive Letter Issue

[Jim Snively]

I have noticed that a USB Thumb drive gets assigned a letter that is already
mapped to a network connection. I need to disconnect drive letter in order
to acccess the thmb disk. Is there any way of convincing WINXP to assign
unused drive letters skipping over ones with network connections. I noticed
that in WIN98 SE this behaves the way I would like it to.

Jim Snively

 

[Guest]

Give this MS article a look:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297694

It's not an elegant solution, but it should help you through.

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I have noticed that a USB Thumb drive gets assigned a letter that is already
mapped to a network connection. I need to disconnect drive letter in order
to acccess the thmb disk. Is there any way of convincing WINXP to assign
unused drive letters skipping over ones with network connections. I noticed
that in WIN98 SE this behaves the way I would like it to.

The best way to avoid this conflict is to use 'high letters'
for network shares.

Or you assing another letter to the USB drive in the
disk management console but you have to do it again for
each new USB drive.

If a different letter for the network share is no option and
you handle with many USB drives, then my USB drive letter manager
may be a solution:
www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html


Greetings from Germany

Uwe