USB Ports Assigned Drive Letters

[TonyL222]

Okay guys, it was my first buiild, so don't laugh too hard at the newbie. My build went fairly well. However, after installing XP I discovered that each of my many USB and Firewire ports were assigned drive letters. I'm sure this is a bone head, rookie mistake.

Now, how do I fix? Thanks for the feedback

 

[Vascular]

Are you refering to a memory card reader?

Empty ports are never assigned drive letters. Only storage mediums are assigned letters after they are plugged in.

 

[luminaris]

I'm curious to know where your seeing these drive letters. The disk management feature under administrative tools in the control panel is where you would change drive letters.

 

[TonyL222]

I'm curious to know where your seeing these drive letters. The disk management feature under administrative tools in the control panel is where you would change drive letters.

I can see them in either the My Computer window from the Start tab, or Windows Explorer>My Computer . The Disk Management tool will allow me to change the letter. But I don't want a letter assigned at all until I attach an external storage device. It's not a major deal - just slightly annoying.

 

[Vascular]

Again are you using a Memory card reader?

What are the lettered drives be refered as? hard drive/ removable disk/ cd drive

 

[luminaris]

yeah, like Vascular, I'd like to know too if you have installed some sort of a media reader in the machine.

 

[TonyL222]

Again are you using a Memory card reader?

What are the lettered drives be refered as? hard drive/ removable disk/ cd drive

Have a card reader with FDD, but only the FDD attached right now (need a longer cable for the card readers). The lettered drives are noted as Removeable Disk (I), (J), (K), and (L).

 

[Vascular]

Do you have the floppy cable plugged in or the USB header?

It seems like you have the usb plugged in and nothing is wrong then. I also have a usb card reader and it shows the same thing. I dont know why they show with no media in but it is normal. I dont know of anyway to remove them with out unplugging the card reader.
Note the power supply connector does not power the mcr just the FD.

 

[TonyL222]

Do you have the floppy cable plugged in or the USB header?

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Just the floppy cable. Waiting on a longer cable for the USB header. You know, I might try unplugging all the internal USB headers, booting up in Windows, shutting back down, and the reconnecting them. Kinda curious to see what that would do.

 

[Vascular]

Something sounds weird. Have you tried plugging in a memory card? Just curious to see what happens. Most internal mcr do not have any way of changing the cable.
Do you have a printer plugged in? If so does it have a mcr built in?
Does your monitor have mcr built in?