A neighbor asked for help with mounting his USB sticks. He has directories mapped to drive letters D,E, and F to mimic partitions from the days when Windows could not handle large partitions gracefully. When a USB stick got inserted, it grabbed the D drive letter fouling up his software.
I helped him find Control Panel/Admin Tools/Manage Computer/Storage/Drives and changed the USB drive to U. This seemed to work OK. It also appears to mark the drive letter on the device rather than configuring the system to start lettering from U. However, it turns out he has two USB sticks he uses for backup and data transport. He mapped the second one to V. When both USB sticks are mounted at the same time, only one stick gets a drive letter. The other stick is unlettered and unavailable unless he goes through the control panel to manually assign a drive letter. Is this normal Windows behavior? Is there a simple way to force drive letter assignments on USB sticks? Can you mount two at once? (My winNT box does not support USB so I can't do much research myself.) Thanks for any pointers. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp DLSLUG/GNHLUG library http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/profile/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/rsshtml/recent/dlslug _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
