Windows and removable drives
Do you ever wondered why your USB-stick or other removable drive doesn’t show up on My Computer list of available drives?
When I switched my work while back I bounced into this problem, I have currently several different USB-drives including cdrom, hdd and sticks, but when I plugged more than one at the same time into my laptop just one drive showed up..
When I checked disk management (Right click on my computer icon and choose manage and there disk management) those usb-drives were showing up there.
I had some network drive mapping on the laptop starting from F: and since I had already C: and D: on my computer only free letter was E:, so when I plugged more than one usb-drive in, it came out as F: but F: was already taken by network drive. This is bug in windows, for some reason windows doesn’t check network mappings when it assigns drive letter for removable media, this can be quite easily fixed by changing drive letter in disk management (right click on drive in disk management and choose change drive letter and paths…) , and windows remembers new drive letter when you next time plug that same drive in again.
This behavior caused lots of confusion at my workplace.
I wonder if this is fixed in Windows Vista…