Dodger Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Hi all,This one's driving me up a wall!We have a small office network, Windows SBS 2003, nothing fancy - recently upgraded from an old Compaq running Novell. Back in the day we used the "F" and "G" drive letters for our main network drives. This worked wonderfully until we started using flash drives recently - replacing floppies for portable data movement.Seems that, even tho we have 2 mapped drives as "F" and "G" Windows (XP and 2000 workstations) want to give the newly inserted flash drives the "F" designation.So, of course, it doesn't show up in explorer - people freak out cause they can't find their data, SysAdmin must stop what I'm ... er ... he's doing and go into Windows and give the flash drive a new letter ...Obviously we chose an awkward drive letter years ago ... but is there anything we can do to convince Windows that any new drive should be given a drive letter after "F"?Anyone else come across an issue like this and have any advice? I would change the network drives' letters but there are literally hundreds of shortcuts, database paths, etc... that would have to be altered.Thanks!Dodge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 USBDLM - Free for personal or education use. Unfortunately not free for corporate environments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted August 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 USBDLM - Free for personal or education use. Unfortunately not free for corporate environments.Well worth the money- thanks!!Dodge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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