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?

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.

Conan

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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Nice one Mac! That is really useful to know.

Conan

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?

I'd find that useful in this thread.

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 :ok:) and this'll make things a lot easier.

Where did you buy that?

Me wanna one. Me wanna one!

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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1Gb USB here for £17.99