Re: Removable disk allocated same letter as network drive!

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From: David J. Craig (SeniorDriversWriter_at_shogunyoshimuni.com.net)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:58:51 -0400

In 2., is this the FIRST time that a USB pen drive has been seen by the
system? Has disk manager ever been run after the USB pen drive was
present? Whose network? How did persistent drive letter mapping occur?
Where is that network drive? Server? Other machine?

<news@rtrussell.co.uk> wrote in message
news:c60t8r$e3f$2@nntp0.reith.bbc.co.uk...
> David J. Craig <SeniorDriversWriter@shogunyoshimuni.com.net> wrote:
> : You have it backwards. E: was free and available when the mass
storage
> : driver loaded - also partition manager and the mount manager. The
> : reassignment of the network drive letter occurred later when the
network
> : stack loaded.
>
> The sequence of events was:
>
> 1. Boot up PC. Network drive mounted as E: automatically.
>
> 2. Plug in USB pen drive, system detects removable disk and
> assigns it the drive letter E:
>
> 3. USB drive contents inaccessible (E: drive in Windows Explorer
> shows contents of network drive).
>
> I don't care that E: was possibly 'free' when the removable disk
> *driver* loaded, it wasn't free when that letter was allocated to
> the USB drive. Surely the drive letters cannot be allocated to
> removable drives at boot time, since the number of simultaneous
> removable drives isn't known then ?
>
> Richard.
> http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/
> To reply by email change 'news' to my forename.

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