Comments on: USB Drive Letter Manager

By: Dee Cee

Dee Cee — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:27:24 +0000

Had this issue all the time in xp sp2. Had to dig into storage management to reassign drives. SP3 does not seem to have fixed this. It just refuses to mount a drive if it deems there is a conflict. Windows does it again.

By: digirebel

digirebel — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:25:14 +0000

I see the issue all of the time in a networked environment. XP sp2 does not see networked drives as being in use so it will assign the usb drive to what it considers to be an open drive letter. I have heard that sp3 fixes that issue, will have to test it out.

By: w2wScribe

w2wScribe — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:04:36 +0000

I am anti-Windows by default; however, Never in my experience has XP or Vista failed to mount a USB flash drive. It will often usurp another drive and push the sequence down the alphabet but, this happens with virtual drives as well. This in an interesting issue for which someone deemed a solution was required. Given the Windows propensity for doing whatever it damn well pleases, this might be a good idea. All of my USB flash drives are independently named and listed as such in Explorer as they are mounted. I see no issue here as the manufacturers of my drives seem to have foreseen the Windows quirks already. Hey, if you have issues, use the USB Drive Letter Manager, or upgrade to better flash drives…