Rick B

My laptop has several drives mapped to specific letters. When I plug in my
thunb drive, it always identifies it as G:. One of our hardware guys set
this p for me, but I do not rememebr how he did it.

I just plugged in a different thumb drive to try to load a file onto my
laptop, and the drive does not show up in "My Computer". I think this is
because I have other drives mapped as D: E: F: and G:.

I can see the thumb drive in Device Manager, but I can't see a way to
specify which drive letter to use.

Can anyone help me out here? How can I explore this thumb drive?

Thanks!

John Wunderlich

=?Utf-8?B?UmljayBC?= <RickB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:0D043395-86B6-449D-B525-7550CAF674A0@microsoft.com:

> My laptop has several drives mapped to specific letters. When I
> plug in my thunb drive, it always identifies it as G:. One of our
> hardware guys set this up for me, but I do not rememebr how he did
> it.
>
> I just plugged in a different thumb drive to try to load a file
> onto my laptop, and the drive does not show up in "My Computer".
> I think this is because I have other drives mapped as D: E: F: and
> G:.
>
> I can see the thumb drive in Device Manager, but I can't see a way
> to specify which drive letter to use.
>
> Can anyone help me out here? How can I explore this thumb drive?
>
> Thanks!
>

The problem of drives not appearing should have been fixed with SP3.
There is a hot-fix for SP2. In any event, you may want to read:

"New drive or mapped network drive not available in Windows Explorer"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297694>

To answer your question, you should be able to set a drive letter using
the Disk Manager:

Right-Click "My Computer" -> Manage -> Storage -> Disk Management.
Right-Click on drive -> Change Drive Letter & Paths...

HTH,
John

RBear3

John:

That was exactly what my IT guy showed me in the past. Thank you so much!

RBear3


"John Wunderlich" <jwunderlich@lycos.com> wrote in message
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> =?Utf-8?B?UmljayBC?= <RickB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> news:0D043395-86B6-449D-B525-7550CAF674A0@microsoft.com:
>
>> My laptop has several drives mapped to specific letters. When I
>> plug in my thunb drive, it always identifies it as G:. One of our
>> hardware guys set this up for me, but I do not rememebr how he did
>> it.
>>
>> I just plugged in a different thumb drive to try to load a file
>> onto my laptop, and the drive does not show up in "My Computer".
>> I think this is because I have other drives mapped as D: E: F: and
>> G:.
>>
>> I can see the thumb drive in Device Manager, but I can't see a way
>> to specify which drive letter to use.
>>
>> Can anyone help me out here? How can I explore this thumb drive?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> The problem of drives not appearing should have been fixed with SP3.
> There is a hot-fix for SP2. In any event, you may want to read:
>
> "New drive or mapped network drive not available in Windows Explorer"
> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297694>
>
> To answer your question, you should be able to set a drive letter using
> the Disk Manager:
>
> Right-Click "My Computer" -> Manage -> Storage -> Disk Management.
> Right-Click on drive -> Change Drive Letter & Paths...
>
> HTH,
> John