USB drive mapping

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Hi,

It can be done. What you need to do is:

1. Plug your thumb drive in
2. Right click my computer and go to manage
3. Go to disk managment
4. Find your Thumb drive in the upper portion of the screen and right click
it.
5. Select Drive letters and paths
6. Designate a drive letter that isn't being used to connect to a network
drive.
7. Problem solved.

Hope that helps!
_Dan_

"Armyeric" wrote:

> Is there anyway to designate which drive letters a USB storage device will
> take?
>
> I have a WinXP Pro, SP2, workstation attached to a domain and I have several
> mapped drives that are assigned to me. Additionally, I have one floppy, two
> hard drives and two CD drives. These take up A, C, D, E, and F. The
> mappings use G, I, N and Z. The probelm occurs when I plug in any type of
> USB storage device (my thumb drive or cammera). It automatically gets
> assigned G drive. I can access the USB device but when I go to properties, I
> get the mapped drives info. Ultimately I would like to designate drive
> letters P and/or Q.
>
> Can it be done or is it supposed to do it and I am actully having a problem?
>
> Thanks for your help!

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Is there any way to keep the system from searching the external drive and
finding media? Everytime I plug the drive in it does this.

"Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:15CC3205-11B8-497D-A844-78621E17B60B@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> It can be done. What you need to do is:
>
> 1. Plug your thumb drive in
> 2. Right click my computer and go to manage
> 3. Go to disk managment
> 4. Find your Thumb drive in the upper portion of the screen and right
> click
> it.
> 5. Select Drive letters and paths
> 6. Designate a drive letter that isn't being used to connect to a network
> drive.
> 7. Problem solved.
>
> Hope that helps!
> _Dan_
>
> "Armyeric" wrote:
>
>> Is there anyway to designate which drive letters a USB storage device
>> will
>> take?
>>
>> I have a WinXP Pro, SP2, workstation attached to a domain and I have
>> several
>> mapped drives that are assigned to me. Additionally, I have one floppy,
>> two
>> hard drives and two CD drives. These take up A, C, D, E, and F. The
>> mappings use G, I, N and Z. The probelm occurs when I plug in any type
>> of
>> USB storage device (my thumb drive or cammera). It automatically gets
>> assigned G drive. I can access the USB device but when I go to
>> properties, I
>> get the mapped drives info. Ultimately I would like to designate drive
>> letters P and/or Q.
>>
>> Can it be done or is it supposed to do it and I am actully having a
>> problem?
>>
>> Thanks for your help!

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I appreciate the replies, but they do not solve the problem. I cannot right
click the drive letter and set autoplay to off and have it stick. Everytime
I power up the external drives, it re-establishes the drive letters and
immediately autoplays.

"Alpha" <logos1@trip.net> wrote in message
news:11d5t9skor2kt57@corp.supernews.com...
> Is there any way to keep the system from searching the external drive and
> finding media? Everytime I plug the drive in it does this.
>
> "Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:15CC3205-11B8-497D-A844-78621E17B60B@microsoft.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> It can be done. What you need to do is:
>>
>> 1. Plug your thumb drive in
>> 2. Right click my computer and go to manage
>> 3. Go to disk managment
>> 4. Find your Thumb drive in the upper portion of the screen and right
>> click
>> it.
>> 5. Select Drive letters and paths
>> 6. Designate a drive letter that isn't being used to connect to a network
>> drive.
>> 7. Problem solved.
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>> _Dan_
>>
>> "Armyeric" wrote:
>>
>>> Is there anyway to designate which drive letters a USB storage device
>>> will
>>> take?
>>>
>>> I have a WinXP Pro, SP2, workstation attached to a domain and I have
>>> several
>>> mapped drives that are assigned to me. Additionally, I have one floppy,
>>> two
>>> hard drives and two CD drives. These take up A, C, D, E, and F. The
>>> mappings use G, I, N and Z. The probelm occurs when I plug in any type
>>> of
>>> USB storage device (my thumb drive or cammera). It automatically gets
>>> assigned G drive. I can access the USB device but when I go to
>>> properties, I
>>> get the mapped drives info. Ultimately I would like to designate drive
>>> letters P and/or Q.
>>>
>>> Can it be done or is it supposed to do it and I am actully having a
>>> problem?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help!
>
>