Re: USB Thumb Drive Gets Assigned Drive Letter A:

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This needs to be asked: Do you have a floppy drive A:?

By using Disk Management, you can re-assign the USB thumb drive to a
different letter. When I did all of mine, they seem to keep their new
letter.


<slewis1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1125667891.128031.68660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a usb thumb drive that was working fine and now all of sudden no
> matter what computer I plug it into it gets assigned drive letter A:
> and I can't access it. Any thoughts or suggestions as to why this is
> happening?
>


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