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Windows XP mounting USB drive to same letter as previously mapped network drive

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Mar 15, 20267582 views
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Why does Windows always mount a USB drive as the next drive letter after the last physical drive, even when that letter is already taken by a mapped drive, and is there any way to improve this behaviour? What happens is I tend to use a few different flash drives on my PC, as well as having both a B…

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Fix for: Windows XP mounting USB drive to same letter as previously mapped network drive

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For this kind of problem, USB Drive Letter Management (USBDLM) makes wonders. You can allocate drive letters to USB drives, make sure it does not interfere with network drives, ... From their Getting Started section: When a removable drive (USB flas…

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