USB drive letter confusion.

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I work at a school and one of my users is the journalism and PR lady.
As you can imagine, she uses USB card readers and external hard drvies
alot.

She also has several networked drives that all my users have and need.

She has a 500 gig external hard drive which will take up drive letter E
(which is available) but sometimes she needs the ext HD AND a card
reader hooked in at the same time. If E is not available, the card
reader acts like it isnt plugged in and is assigned NO drive letter.

The computer "dings" as if detected, and no error are present, but if
the big ext HD has drive E, the card reader just wont appear in My
Computer.

Any free programs or does (God forbid they thought of this!) Windows
XP have something built in to allowe me to assign drive letters?
Thanks in advance!
Jazz Mann
 
Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management
Then use Storage | Disk Management

Check and see if the USB device shows up. If so, and what letter.

If a letter has been assigned, then the Drive Letter maybe marked hidden
from Windows Explorer.
Use Tweakui XP (from MS) and check to see if that drive letter is marked to
be hidden. If so, unmark it.
Then close all Windows Explorer windows and open a Windows Explorer window.
 
Jazz said:
I work at a school and one of my users is the journalism and PR lady.
As you can imagine, she uses USB card readers and external hard drvies
alot.

She also has several networked drives that all my users have and need.

She has a 500 gig external hard drive which will take up drive letter E
(which is available) but sometimes she needs the ext HD AND a card
reader hooked in at the same time. If E is not available, the card
reader acts like it isnt plugged in and is assigned NO drive letter.

The computer "dings" as if detected, and no error are present, but if
the big ext HD has drive E, the card reader just wont appear in My
Computer.

Any free programs or does (God forbid they thought of this!) Windows
XP have something built in to allowe me to assign drive letters?
Click to expand...

You can change the drive letter assignments in the Windows
Disk Management (Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc).
But this seems to ask for a permanent solution:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html


Uwe
 
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