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Drive letters - mapping and Flash drives

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!
Daf
Aug 5 '08 #1
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