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Old 12th April 2006, 01:59   #1 (permalink)

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Drive letter of a USB flash/jump/thumb drive
I have two of these and I had then plugged in as G: and H: the other day. I removed them both (safely) and today I reinstalled the one that was H: and it came up as...H:

Does that mean it remembers? Why isn't it called G: this time?
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Old 12th April 2006, 13:26   #2 (permalink)
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MS work on the basis of a drive snatching the first letter it can. You can read the drive ok, because flash drives normally carry data and not programs. There is rarely anything on there that needs a path.

Iif you want to allocate a letter, have a stroll to the control panel - Admin tools and you can manage things from there.

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Old 12th April 2006, 13:43   #3 (permalink)

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Read this

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.c...id=1676&page=9

and this

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
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Old 12th April 2006, 20:59   #4 (permalink)
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Nice one Mac! That is really useful to know.

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Old 12th April 2006, 22:19   #5 (permalink)
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Thanks very much Mac!
Thanks very much indeed Mac! Very very useful! How do you find the time to sniff out all the amazing stuff?

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Old 13th April 2006, 00:17   #6 (permalink)
 
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I'd find that useful in this thread.
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Old 13th April 2006, 15:58   #7 (permalink)

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Thanks everyone that really is a big help (though it still doesn't explain the original anomoly, you know what I don't care)

I'm developing a little .net application and I carry it between hoime and work on a flash drive (1Gb for $29.99 ) and this'll make things a lot easier.
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Thanks everyone that really is a big help (though it still doesn't explain the original anomoly, you know what I don't care)

I'm developing a little .net application and I carry it between hoime and work on a flash drive (1Gb for $29.99 ) and this'll make things a lot easier.
Where did you buy that?

Me wanna one. Me wanna one!
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Old 14th April 2006, 04:22   #9 (permalink)

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Better hurry up, I got it at Fry's it's like eighty bucks on sale for fifty with a twenty dollar mail in rebate or something. I think it's on till this weekend.

Assuming you have a Fry's near you...
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Old 14th April 2006, 16:58   #10 (permalink)
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Better hurry up, I got it at Fry's it's like eighty bucks on sale for fifty with a twenty dollar mail in rebate or something. I think it's on till this weekend.

Assuming you have a Fry's near you...
Nop, we doesnt have "Fry's" here in Snoreway.

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Old 17th April 2006, 06:32   #11 (permalink)
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1Gb USB here for £17.99

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