USB drive not in my computer. Fixed but why?

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Could be someone setting "map E:" for a single session, simple as that.
Now you set the trap. Next time the USB won't show up.

Brooklin wrote:

> We recently had almost all of our computers stop seeing USB flash
> drives under my computer. It was recognized by the computer and we
> did change the drive letter assignment and that worked fine, but why
> did this suddenly happen?
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> The USB drive was assigned drive E:, without the drive in there was no
> network drive E shown, so why the conflict all of a sudden. We made
> no changes that we can recall. Could it be a policy change, failed E:
> network drive mapping? Any other thoughts?
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> Thanks.
> Scott
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