USB hard drive issue. Drive lettering.

LewieP

So, I have a USB hard drive, I keep all my music on it. It is drive letter I

I recently plugged another usb device in, left it in, turned off my system, booted up again, to find that my mp3 player was drive I, and my usb hard drive was drive J.

This confused windows media player, and other peices of software that are connected to my usb drive.

Any way I can reset it to be I, and make it stay that way forever and ever amen?

cheers

Airan

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > (Storage Category) Disk Management. Right click on your drive and the option to change drive letters should be available.

LewieP

Cheers, "LEWIES UBER DRIVE" has been reset to 'I'.

VoodooV

I thought USB drives were supposed to just take the first drive available and not remember what they were previously?

at work we give USB drives to some of our employees. and their laptops of course have C and D drives. the USB drives in question are those annoying encrypted drives so when they plug them. the E drive becomes the unencrypted, and F is the encrypted.

One of our employees got it into their head to plug in a coworker's USB stick (another secure drive) and then her own. so her coworker's stick became the E and F drives, and her stick became the G and H drives. Which under normal circumstances would be fine. But when she comes back into the office and connects up to the network and plugs HER stick in, It remembered being the G and H drive. problem is, the network login maps a shared folder to the G drive, which obviously conflicts.

It was the only stick plugged in at the time, so why doesn't it take the first ones available, E and F? or A and B for that matter since we no longer use floppies