XP drive letter bug

[VirtualLarry]

I have a PC, with a harddrive, and another PC, and I have drives mapped over the network. Well, I plugged in a USB HD, and Windows assigned the SAME DRIVE LETTER (in disk management) to the USB HD, as I had been using for my permanent network drive mapping.

Why does Windows do this? And will this be fixed in SP3?

 

[thegorx]

you mean when you change the drive letter it reverts back ?
I'm generally careful about drive letters and have not notice a bug although it would be nice if it asked first but if it says in the registry that drive is going to have a certain drive letter that's what it's going to be until changed. I know some mount programs ask what drive letter want to use but usb drives don't ask but you can change them, also plugging in to a different USB port will be seen as a different device so if you are in the habbit of doing that then you need to change the drive letter for each connection.